Looking across the street at the broken rear wall of the Anchorage, Alaska federal jail. From verso: "Federal jail built when Anchorage first began. It's so decrepit some prisoners kicked the side of the wall out just to show it could be done."...
Descriptive Narrative: 2-pocket wall pocket of seal gut and fabric which is tall and narrow with a conical top and a square bottom. The top panel is of gut with embroidery. Each lower corner has a triangular shaped gut inset with a ribbon welt....
Two women, possibly student nurses, sit against a retaining wall outside a building, possibly a hospital. The building has been identified as the Sitka Pioneers Home by a Sitka researcher and confirmed.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows an advertisement hanging on a wall. In the advertisement men are playing roulette. The names at the lower left read "Cyrus Noble" and "W.A. Lacey", both brand names of the Crown Distilleries Co., which is...
Title from caption in album: "July 31 - Wall of the Muldrow Glacier + pack train in distance". Photograph shows a fairly flat landscape of tundra and grass. Mountains can be seen in the background.
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.
The following is the text on...
Title taken from front. Winter view of Hole in Wall Bluffs looking up Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. From front: "A.E.C. G241." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G241. 1916. Photographer: P.S. Hunt. Original...
Title taken from front. View of Hole in Wall bluffs along Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska, before blasting for Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction. Also from front: "A.E.C. G279." Photos AMHA-aec-g279 and AMHA-aec-g280 in...
Title taken from front. View of coyote blast at Hole in Wall bluffs along Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska, during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction. Also from front: "A.E.C. G280." From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet...
Title taken from label on matting. View of barrels stored in space between cold storage rooms and outer wall of cold storage building at Williams reindeer processing plant in Saint Michael, Alaska. Photographer's number 7873. July 1938....
Omwari, Hazel (artist). 4 in. x 5.75 in. wall hanging or picture; stiffener of heavy cardboard, covered on back with light blue cloth; front is two pieces of haired seal skin; each has two appliquéd figures sewn on; there are three dancers and a...
Beaded wall plaque with loop for hanging; cross and Easter lily done in beading on front; 3.375 in. x 4.75 in. backed with white felt; beaded front done on felt as well; some sort of stiffener in middle. Edged with clear "sparkling" seed beads -...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title taken from caption. View of front entrance to Naknek Packing Company hospital building, Naknek, Alaska, with white tent at right. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.