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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The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
View of man and child walking on dock on main street of Seward, Alaska, with another person in background. From front: "Seword [sic] Alaska main street, taken by W.A. McPherson [sic]. 1904." From verso: "Seward, Alaska, 1904, a few days after it...
193 second film clip, color/silent of the first Fairbanks Ice Bowl. This three minute clip shows hearty football players' playing hard in the few hours of daylight available during Fairbank's winter.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a glacier and mountains in the distance as seen from an airplane. What kind of land directly underneath the plane is hard to determine. The wing of the airplane can just barely be seen. Caption from...
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...
“Anchorage – Army Private Ralph T. Frye, Hamlet, N.C., briefs Red Cross disaster nursing staff on how to get to isolated Alaskan communities hard hit by Good Friday’s earthquake and tidal waves. Left...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman on the bank of the Yukon River cutting salmon. Narrative in photo album reads: Above is Eva cleaning salmon. This is a hard, dirty, wet job. The salmon are split flat wise along the back bone to the...
Title from caption. Photograph of George Gasser supervising the reaping of wheat on the Rampart, Alaska experimental farm. Narrative in photo album reads: "All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat...