Title taken from caption. View of two men standing in front of Louie's Cafe in Valdez. On the left is Russ Dow and, holding a cigarette, on the right is Ray Avery. The writing in the windows reads "Cafe and Bakery".
Photograph shows Rusty (Benzie Ola "Rusty" Dow, Russell Dow's wife) and two others in a camp on the shore of Eklutna Lake, Alaska. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 3/4".
Title taken from caption "Russ Dow ready to take pictures on Gillham's route to Fairbanks, June 1937". View is of Russell Dow and his camera posing in front of a plane.
Photo caption reads "Left to right: Ford Bectel, Russ Dow, Fritz at Fishhook [Inn]." View of three men standing in front of a tractor with three cars and a bus behind it. The bus has the logo "Pioneer Line" printed above the back window. There are...
Title taken from caption. View of Russ Dow on the left and Leona and Sam Houston on the right. Russell Dow is a noted Alaskan photographer. Sam Houston was a park ranger in McKinley Park. Photo taken in Mount McKinley National Park (later called...
Title taken from caption. View of a woman feeding rabbits in a large fenced in area full of hutches in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. 1939. Photographer: Russell Dow.
Photograph shows a group of veterans in civilian clothes marching through downtown Anchorage in the 1940 4th of July parade. Two men, one carrying the U.S. flag, the other an Alaska state flag, lead the veterans. Spectators stand in front of...
Title taken from caption"Me at 74 mile road camp (truck driver)." View of Russell Dow taken in 1937 at the 74 mile road camp, on the Richardson Highway, where he worked as a truck driver.
Title from verso. "I beleive it was Burt Ruff's ? plane. Tied to ice cakes on frozen beach at [Bootleggers] Cove near Anchorage about 1943. [from Bob Reeve file]. Photo by Russ Dow." A rear view of a float plane labeled "Bristol Bay Air...
Title from verso. "First plane on pontoons spring of 1941. Tied to ice cake on frozen beach at Bootleggers cove near Anchorage. Reason: Flying engineers to Whittier camp of new tunnel job for railroad. Photo by Russ Dow." Compare to...
Title from caption. Verso reads: "Bob Reeve checking [engine] 1937. Photo by Russ Dow." The writing on the side of the house reads: "Reeve Airways. The best. And Nuts? Always use Reeve Airways. Slow, unreliable, unfair and crooked. Scared &...
Title from verso. "Bob Reeve in Fairchild 51 on Columbia Glacier landing field for Ruff & Tuff mine. Ed Tatro (?) in foreground assembling 2 ton Hold tractor from parts flown in after disassembling at mud ville outside Valdez. Photo by Russ...
Exterior shot of a log building that housed the Northern Commercial Company Store in Aniak. A large firewood stack stands adjacent to the store. Snow on the ground. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5".
Looking across the airstrip at two Reeve Airways airplanes parked on the ground outside the hangar and office building at Valdez airport. Bob Reeve is owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian Airways. A vehicle is parked in front...
Logging in the vicinity of Pigot Bay, Prince William Sound. Logger is using a Caterpillar bulldozer with an attached lifting arm to move logs into place to form a log raft. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Logging in vicinity of Pigot Bay. Three men standing on shore, surveying a raft of logs floating in the bay. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".