Title taken from verso. View of Free Will Baptist Church located on International Airport Road in Anchorage, Alaska. March 14, 1960. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Photographer: 4" x 5".
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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This color slide depicts an unidentified man standing in front of the Valdez Glacier in Valdez, Alaska in 1962. He is holding a piece of ice, and there is a sign next to him that reads, "Free Ice Compliments Valdez C. of C." The photographer is...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Two young men in Boy Scout uniforms putting up posters in a shop window. Posters: Check your chest. Have an x-ray at the Methodist Church basement starting March 22, 1948. It's free. It's painless. Takes only a few minutes. No...
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Title by cataloger. Photograph of an elevated cache with at least four dogsleds stored for summer. Hung higher and to the right side of the photo is drying meat. Also visible are at least two canoes. Narrative in photo album reads: "An...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza with a log cabin in the background. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first morning, before...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Old Eliza walking in Stevens Village with a log building in the background. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first...
Title from caption. Photograph of an Indian school. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right--school built and maintained for Indians by U. S. Government. All Alaskan Indians must support themselves getting only medical treatment &...
Title from indexer. Additional narrative in donor notes reads: "Our sled dog Iolanthe, bred by Milton Swan in Kivalina, lost much of her left hind leg when, with her stake-out chain accidentally wrapped around it during one winter night, her...
Typewritten text on recto: "High Tide - 'Anne W.' arrived from Seldovia with one barge. Departed immediately for Seldovia. View shows Dock #2. Arm practically free from floating ice."