Title from verso. Photograph of a tower in an isolated Aleutian location. Image has been modified, perhaps because original was over exposed and needed contrast. Verso reads: "Isolated tower of a remote gale-swept outpost in Aleutians...
“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 verso. Photograph of a young woman from Savoonga. The photo has been marked for cropping. Verso reads: "Seattle, Wash. -- The Coast Guard Cutter, Northwind, "battle-scarred" veteran of polar region expeditions, recently...
Title taken from caption. "11528 -- (10) The cost of constructing cabins in the Klondike during the latter part of 1897 was considerable. Logs were selling at $50 apiece, and wages were from $15 to $20 per day. An ordinary one-room cabin...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "April 6 -- Transportation vehicles ranging from dog sleds to military aircraft were used by the American Red Cross in transporting emergency relief supplies and personnel into Alaskan...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from caption. View of family having breakfast at pipeline camp near Delta Junction, Alaska. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182....
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Title taken from caption. View of clumps of flowers growing along slope of Bear Mountain in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, with Katmai Bay in background. Photo taken during National Geographic Society...
From verso: "Miss Miriam Dickey and Captain Lathrop. Miss Dickey is Secretary-Treasurer of the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Company, and is Capt's "right hand man" in all his other widespread enterprises. It was her interest in radio and its...
On verso: "Pioneers of Alaska, men who have been isolated from the outside world for from 20 to 31 years. Billy Burke, Aze Wilcox, Jess Allen, Martin Slisco, Smithy Wanamaker, Carl Frank, George Huey, Pete Davey, Jack Hood, Earl Workman. Aze and...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.