68 second, black & white/silent, film clip. The clip shows Will Rogers and Wiley Post with a group of unidentified people in Fairbanks, Alaska, August 1935.
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Drawing of Urey Lisiansky (Lisianskii) for the frontispiece of the book "A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva"
Edward Westen (at left) discussing his ivory carvings with writer Howard Kosbau in Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and...
Caption on verso: Thelma Thompson Slayden autographs a copy of her recent novel, MIRACLE IN ALASKA, for Senator Ernest Gruening at a luncheon in the Senate dining room, Washington, D.C.
Portrait photograph of Esther Birdsall Darling, who was A. A. "Scotty" Allan's partner and co-owner of the team that took two firsts, two seconds, and two third places in six All Alaska Sweepstakes races in Nome between 1908 and 1915.
Wooden plaque with metal plates Top metal plate reads: The W. L. Corson Gas Engine Co. San Francisco Eng No 40 H P 26 Rev 500
Bottom metal plate reads: Presented by Miss Helen Miller Gould to The International Committee of Young Men’s...
Title taken from verso. Verso (news item): May 5, 1917 - Lester D. Henderson, Juneau superintendent of schools, was today appointed the first Commissioner of Education for the Territory of Alaska under the recently enacted law to provide for a...
Sign above door reads "Hotel Pihl, Sitka Hot Spring." Pihl was an early day Sitka saloon owner and bootlegger. (per Joe Ashby, 1988) George Thornton Emmons is man on left (per Jerry Dzugan 5/4/05), and Merrill on right. (verso).]