Verso: Senator Ralph Moody, chairman of the Alaska Legislative Council, accepts scroll recognizing Alaskan Statehood presented to the Alaskan Delegation to the National Legislative Conference at Boston, Mass., September 1958.
Title from verso. Photograph of dead Japanese soldiers. Verso reads: "Attu -- Every one a bloody, gruesome corpse with a part of his body torn away, these Japs [ Japanese ] died by their own hand in a mass suicide on Attu, in the...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ AAC -- Mass Destruction -- Many small boats from the Seward dock area paid an unexpected visit to the Alaskan Railroad yards during the Good Friday earthquake. Here the area is shown littered with the remains...
Title taken from front. Group of men in uniform inside quonset hut used as chapel during Midnight Mass at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska on Christmas Eve. Also from front: "IPF36329 1-1 12-24 2400 105A." Dec. 24, 1944. Original photograph...
Title taken from front. Group of men in uniform inside quonset hut used as chapel during Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, with altar and priest in center background. Also from front: "IPF36329 1-2 12-24 2400...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from verso. View of large rock formation next to road in southcentral Alaska, possibly near Hatcher Pass. Also from verso: "Sept 22, 1936." Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.