Title taken from caption. View showing new concrete sidewalk on Fourth Street between E and F in the Anchorage town site. During the summer of 1917, 18 blocks of 12 foot concrete sidewalks, and two blocks of 6 foot concrete walks were...
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts miners at Sheep Camp on the trail over Chilkoot Pass, Alaska. The miners in the foreground stand with equipment and packages, including a sled. In the background are tents, buildings, and a line of...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two women sewing bark on a birch bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Next as shown below, the women sew the pieces of birch together, sewing over and over. For thread they use the small roots of...
Title from verso. Photograph of a camp during the advance across Attu Island. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay." "Attu Island--When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier taking cover behind rocks. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay. Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of...
Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...
Title from caption. "(c) Winter - [Pond] Co. First aeroplane flight over Juneau, Alaska. August 16, 1920." Verso reads: "NY / Nome Black Wolf Squadron flew over [Juenau]. Pilot Kirkpatrick dropped packet for [Government]. For Mrs. Loftus - We...
Aerial view looking southeast over Kachemak Bay during airplane flight, preparing to land in Homer, Alaska on Kenai Peninsula. From slide mount: "Sept '56. Looking SE over Kachemak Bay. In flight - about to land at Homer." Sept. 1956. Photograph...
Image shows three people riding astride an aerial tram suspended over the Matanuska River. The person in the front is winching the tram over the river. Original photograph size: 4 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Sign promoting Feather Merchants Second Annual Ball hanging over a bar, with people in the background. Sign reads: "Feather Merchants 2nd Annual Ball! March 21, 1944. Ambassador Club. Anchorage & Fairbanks, Alaska. Remember Too to Buy War Bonds....
Reindeer herd in U.S. Government Reindeer Project corral at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska, with coastline in background. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...