Title from caption. Photograph of fur buyers and traders on the bank of the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are many thousands of dollars worth of fur spread on the beach. In the spring as soon...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of three men and a woman inspecting a strange duck shot by one of the men. Narrative in the photo album reads: "At the right are Mr. Shultz (with the pipe) and Jack Rice examining a strange specimen of duck which...
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from caption. "9355 -- (3) The two oldest transportation companies operating on the Yukon are the Alaskan Commercial Company and the North American Trading & Transportation Company. They are located on the little harbor about a...
Title taken from caption. "9212 -- (16) In this view we have a combination of grocery store, postoffice, laundry, and hay and grain warehouse, as well as a Miner's Exchange. Mr. Courtney, the proprietor, was fortunate in having with him his...
Title taken from caption. "9209 -- (24) After passing Sheep Camp the Yukoner of 1898 proceeded up the trail on his journey toward the pass. A group of these gold seekers are represented in the foreground of this view, while a procession of...
Title by cataloguer. According to Terrance Cole, the men's basketball team of 1933 -1934 under coach James Ryan, traveled thousands of miles across the territory of Alaska competing with and mostly beating other high school teams in Seward,...
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Photograph of four men holding tree cutting tools and one with a stadia rod for use in surveying. Caption for this photograph states: Known as the 'Grizzly Gang'. This quartet of old timers cut practically all the poles used...
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...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Alaskan prospector Dick Willoughby claimed he snapped this photo in June 1888 while looking out over Muir Glacier in southeastern Alaska; he said that it showed a mirage of a "silent city" that could be seen emerging from the mists, the reflection...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Energy and vigor marked the character of the thousands who surged into the Yukon. Note the family rocker accompanying the mother and her child on the trail,...
State of Alaska Division of Tourism and Economic Development. Verso: “The Highways and Bi-ways of Alaska, it has been said, provide more sheer grandeur and scenic beauty per mile than any other roads found anywhere. Here a motorist and her...