These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Title from image. Photograph of a sternwheeler on the Yukon River. Narrative in photo album reads: "The clear air often gave rise to beautiful scenic effects."
Title from caption in album: "May 12 - West - showing our trail + Karstens trail up where he was as bear tried to rise ". Photograph shows a snowy mountainside where a dead bear has fallen.
Title from verso. Photograph of bomb damage from an air raid on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "Aleutian Islands -- Pillars of smoke rise from Japanese barracks and military installations on the Island of Kiska, as bombs from U.S. Army...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Five men pose on either Bogslof or Fire Island soon after the rise of Perry Island from the sea. Perry Island, now known as the Metcalf Cone, was a brief addition to the Aleutian Islands. Metcalf Cone exploded in late 1906 or early 1907 and...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Oil tanks burning in Valdez Ak., following the Alaska Earthquaek [Earthquake] 3/27/64". Plumes of black smoke rise near a residential street. Mountains stand in the background.
Title taken from verso. View of large rock formation next to road in southcentral Alaska, possibly near Hatcher Pass. Also from verso: "Sept 22, 1936." Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
Title taken from verso. View of Trans-Alaska Pipeline emerging from under ground near Pump Station 12, located at mile 64.5 of Richardson Highway in Southcentral Alaska. Radio antenna stands in left background. 1976? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon....
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of Trans-Alaska Pipeline running south of Donnelly Dome and north of Paxson along Richardson Highway in Interior Alaska, with antenna on rise in left background. 1976? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original...
Title supplied by cataloger. Both people at stern of motorboats, steering across lake, with treed rise in background. Original format: 35mm color slide
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Looking back on the trail from the summit of Chilkoot Pass, 1898. Sheer from sea-level rise huge masses of towering, storm-worn peaks, seamed and riven by a...
From verso: "A $40 million pulp mill, which will produce 550 tons of high grade dissolving pulp daily will rise during 1952 at this site on Ward's Cove near Ketchikan."
Title taken from image. Highly detailed totem poles rise from the ground in front of traditional houses. Several men and women in western dress stand in front of the one of the houses.