(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
Caption: After a nose first crash during Wiley Post's round the world solo flight the Winnie Mae has been set upright and is ready to be repaired. The miners of Flat, Alaska, are taking apart the tripod that helped to set the airplane upright.
Title by cataloger. Photograph of farm equipment on an experimental farm in Rampart, Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat which would ripen hard enough to...
Title from caption. Photograph of Maggie Henry and her brother standing outside of a home. Narrative in photograph album reads: "At the right Maggie Henry and brother, my former pupils at Stevens Village, in front of same porch in mid-summer...
(6:26 min.) (13 of 20) Train/ship and labor issues--train/ship needed to cut cost--merchants advertised in Anchorage based on what was in the shipment--guaranteed delivery dates (kinda)--railbelt--Anchorage origins--Distribution problems for...
(3:57 min.) (04 of 24) 04 After the war. Worked the passenger ships for years. Moved ashore into receiving ship stores. Did receiving for Korea and Vietnam wars. Moved up to the main office. Got to make deals for a million dollars. ...
(4:26 min.) (19 of 28) 19. Women pilots Virginia wanted corrections made on a display at the airport, adding mention of early women pilots in Alaska. Virginia speaks of things absent in her life and how becoming a Jehovah's Witness helped.
Title from cataloger notes. Full note reads: "Sargent Luis Reis - USAF, Ladd Field, in front of bus he helped drive from Union City, Indiana to Fairbanks, Alaska, over the Alaska Highway in Feburary 1943."
Title taken from caption. "Mastodon Mining Co. bought the ground from former owner - old man, Gus Erickson. Company paid $37,000 in 1933. I helped Gus to mine early in the spring. Later, Gus left the place and he gave the cabin to me. The...
Title from photograph. Verso: Sept. 1924 a charter flight with engineer Ingram & Secretary Sandy Sanders on Attempted flight to Kantishna. Two days tried to get them in there but low ceiling persisted and I landed them here on a 300 ft. bar on...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "'Operation Helping Hand' helped the small villages with medicine, food, and clothing following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". A helicopter passenger, wearing a warm flight suit and bunny...
Title from verso. A close-up shot of a man with closely cropped hair, dressed in suit and tie, head slightly turned towards the camera. He may be an employee of Wien Airlines.
After a message from Marty Wells, Don Everly's daughter, in...
Title from verso. This Russian fighting ship helped to protect the first Russian military mission, arriving in Alaska by transport plane in [late summer] of 1942. Photo taken by US Army Air Forces."
Charles Mac Kay has identified the model and...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of a Buick service center after a fire in 1947. This occurred at the corner of 1st and Cushman. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
Title from accompanying notes. "4 April. Pete, Terry (he helped Cliff find the Russell Glacier), Hat, and the Super Cub on the morning Cliff, Hat & I continue on to the Russell Glacier." Three men in front of a red and white airplane,...
Title taken from verso. An interior view of a supply room with two military personnel working behind a counter. The counter has a small "keep out" sign displayed on it. In front of the counter are two military personnel waiting to be helped and a...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.