Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "1939. B.C. - Near Telegraph Creek. Slim -." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and...
Photograph of Nome, Alaska 1939 showing a portion of the business district. Businesses visible are Kenn's Bakery, Polet Stores Grocery and Hotel Lincoln. Also visible are several cars and trucks and people.
Capt. Zeisler performing a marriage on board the USCG Spencer 1939. One of three Alaska Native couples are being married during a triple wedding on a coast guard vessel.
Verso: early 40's? late 30's c. 1939. Back Row (l. to r.): James Knudson, Bobby Sarabia, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, William Lee Sr. Front Row (l. to r.): Kelly St. Clair, David Perrin Jr., Ralph Austin, John Fawcett Jr., Paul Osborne.
Title by indexer. Cartoon panel depicts a man trying to get his stuck car out of a muddy road; around him, others watch, and one says to another, "Why don't some of us help him? Help him wot fur? That's the Road Commissioner!" (The 'er' in...
"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a two-story building in the distance. A flagpole sits in front of it. This building may have been part of military facilities on the Aleutian Islands.