Title taken from caption. View of the top of a native potato cellar near Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of two men standing near a large rack of drying salmon. To the right is a hut that may be a smoke-house. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of a fence that has had the bark sanded off and the wood smoothed by ash blowing in the wind. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Grave houses on shore, photographed from a canoe during an expedition up the Taku River by P. I. Packard, T. Gordon Janney, W.A. Pratt, A. E. Johnson, and James S. Johnson; left side of photograph shows edge of sail
Ross Kirkpatrick sits in front cockpit of plane; man in rear pit looks at a movie camera; plane was part of U.S. Army Alaskan flying expedition from New York to Nome in 1920; planes were DeHavilland DH-4B biplanes, modified with long-range fuel...
Title from image caption Five expedition members, identified as Pond, Campbell, Smith, Adams, and Steineke. pose at entrance to barabara along Alaska's arctic coast Photographer's number 47
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...