Title taken from caption. View of Emanuel George Zies with a full pack as he is about to leave camp. Dr. Zies was a chemist with the National Geographic expedition. Caption also says:"Zies about to leave Baked Mountain Camp." Photo taken in what...
Title from caption. Photograph of a fish wheel near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish, specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish wheels, two of which...
Title supplied by cataloger. Dog team in harness. Musher stands at dog sled, next to gear and boxes. Slide printed 2/1959. Slide carousel unlabeled. Original format: 35mm color slide
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts sluice boxes and other mining equipment set up at the No. 6 Eldorado gold mine in the Klondike River Valley in the Yukon Territory in Canada, circa 1896-1898. Behind the equipment are miners working and...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
Title from verso. "Wilkins (expedition). Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." A close up shot of the large Fokker airplane which was part of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition of 1927. The side of the ski plane reads "Fokker"; the nose,...
Title by indexer. Other notes indicate: "[Igloos and jets, Fairbanks 1969.]" Two "igloos" (cargo containers) sit on elevated platforms at left. At center, a forklift raises or lowers boxes to or from the Wien Consolidated jet. This...
View of Welcome Center surrounded by flower boxes and other log buildings at Alaskaland in Fairbanks, Alaska. Signs on buildings read: "Welcome Center" and "Trail [?]" 1968. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Farewell to Seattle. The Atlanta on the left." The "Atlanta" is most likely the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Atalanta". The row of boxes in front are stamped with the word "Stanavo", possibly indicating a...
Title taken from verso. View of water treatment plant at Trans-Alaska Pipeline refrigeration unit at Glennallen, Alaska, with man standing at right. Feb. 4, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8".
Title taken from front. Tracks running alongside the Alaska Central Railway Company warehouses B and C. Barrels, boxes, and lumber are stored adjacent to the warehouses and across the tracks. Original photograph size: 7 3/8" x 9 9/16".
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.
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.