Title taken from caption. View of old cabin in Anchorage, Alaska, with boardwalk in front and others buildings in background. Sign in front reads: "Oldest cabin. 1898." 1953-1959. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
Title taken from label on matting. View of Emmet Collins with Kitty Collins and Mrs. J.K. Williams, two oldest inhabitants of Klawock, Alaska, sitting in front of house. Photographer's number 8414. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
Title taken from label on matting. Kitty Collins, oldest resident of Klawock, Alaska, sitting in front of building. Photographer's number 8416. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Note: this ship, a National Historic Landmark, is now a museum ship ported at the San Diego Maritime Museum in San Diego; she is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a...
Family photograph of John Minook, his family and home. Identifications made by Robert E. King, cousin to Sally's husband Samuel Heeter, with the data Alfred Mayo's last surviving child, Mrs. Antoinette (Mayo) Roberts Woods of Rampart & Fairbanks,...
The Nictune sisters in order from oldest to the youngest: Elma Sam, Anne Edwards, Bertha Moses, Kitty David, Betty Fleagle, and Stella Hamilton. Taken at the same time and...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the village of Wrangell with the wharf prominant. Visible are two advertisements: one for merchandise and the other a cure for head aches. Narrative in album states that: "Wrangel was our first Alaskan city, as...
Title from verso. Photograph of a submarine docking at Dutch Harbor, while an honor guard waits on the pier. Verso reads: "Vulnerable. -- Dutch Harbor, the Navy's oldest base in the Aleutian Islands, has been reduced to "care-taker"...
Title from verso. Mt. Veniaminof blows black smoke. The eruption is photographed from an airplane. Verso reads: "Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska -- Out on the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula Mt. Veniamanof, oldest known volcano and estimated to have...
Full note reads: "1949 04 Nora Black in front of her sod house @ Shungnak, AK. This house was at the south end of the village and the only one of its kind. I think she was the oldest female in the village."
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. "9355 -- (3) The two oldest transportation companies operating on the Yukon are the Alaskan Commercial Company and the North American Trading & Transportation Company. They are located on the little harbor about a...
Title taken from caption. "11550 The Village of St. Michaels is located upon the northeastern portion of an island of the same name, and is one of the oldest of the Russian outposts in Alaska. Here, passengers and freight are transferred from...
Title taken from caption on Album. "The Sullivan Road House." This Roadhouse was built in 1905, by John and Florence Sullivan, and is located in Delta Junction. Today, the Sullivan Roadhouse has been converted into a Historical Museum and is...
Almer J. Peterson, carpenter for Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colonization Project, standing in front of his law office in Palmer, Alaska. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. Sept. 22, 1935. Carpenter, lawyer & druggist. Oldest...
Title taken from caption. View of a wood frame house in Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Original photograph blurred. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
From verso: "Copper Center, Alaska. Copper Center Roadhouse. 102 miles north of Valdez on the Richardson Highway. On this historic site, "Blix's Roadhouse" served the gold seekers during the Gold Rush 1897-1898. There has been a roadhouse here...
View of sign on Baranof (also known as Baranov) House in Kodiak, Alaska. Sign reads: "Baranof House. Built circa 1793. Kodiak & Aleutian Islands Historical Society Museum. This building served as a storehouse and commissary for Alexander Baranof's...