Title taken from front. View of Mount McKinley (Denali) from Explorers Peak, Alaska. Also from front: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910." 1910. Photographer: LaVoy. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
People identified in caption: top row, left to right: Barry Keown, Col. Hartman, Carl Lomen, Earl Rossman, Henry Bizanion, Alfred Lomen; bottom row, left to right: Capt. A.M. Smith, Valhjalmur Stefansson, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Col. Ben Eielson
People identified in caption: top row, left to right: Knud Rasmussen, Carl Lomen, Earl Rossman; bottom row: Cal Gonzoles, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ralph Lomen
Title taken from verso. Image shows Alfred Lindley and Harry Liek following their 1932 ascent of Mount McKinley. The Lindley-Liek Expedition was the first successful attempt to reach both peaks of Mount McKinley. This party also...
Roald Amundsen the arctic and subarctic explorer is seen in this photograph after his arrival in Nome, Alaska. He had just finished his flight on the Norge, which had flown over the north pole.
Title from caption: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910: Mt. McKinley, Alaska 20,300 ft. from Explorers Peak, 9,000 ft." Postcard postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Aug. 22, 1913 and addressed to Tomie Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. ...
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...
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"
Title from caption. "Amundsen on arrival N______" (possibly Nome). The last word of the caption is illegible due to a blemish on the photograph. Verso reads: "Historical photograph Collection in the Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks."...
Photo of, left to right, Private Fred Wildon Fickett, Lieutenant Henry T. Allen and Sergeant Cady Robertson, members of the Copper and Tanana Rivers Expedition. Photo taken in Saint Michael, a village on St. Michael Island, Alaska. Annotations on...
Cyanotype photograph of members of a prospecting party at Spruce Camp on the head of Turnagain Arm on Cook Inlet in April 1898. A dog is visible in the photograph. Photograph taken by Walter Curran Mendenhall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring...
Cyanotype photograph of members of the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, or Expedition No. 3, standing around the expedition camp at an unidentified location. Several tents and a log cabin are visible. The photograph was taken during the...
Cyanotype photograph of an unidentified man feeding hay to mules at a tent camp on the Valdez Trail, while another man looks on. Deep snow surrounds the animals; a tent is visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet...
Cyanotype photograph of members of the 1898 U.S. Army expedition posing for a photograph with their pack mules and dogs at Portage Bay (now Passage Canal). One man holds a pair of snow shoes, another cradles a gun. The man on the far left...
Cyanotype photograph of members of Expedition No. 3, or the Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, standing in front of a pile of boxes containing supplies for the expedition. One man holds a set of skis. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet...
Title taken from image (in Thomas W .Benham's handwriting). Formal portrait of John C. Cantwell, a lieutenant in the Revenue Cutter Service. He is wearing a beaded jacket. He explored the Kobuk River (also known as the Kowak River) in 1884-1885....
Forensic reconstruction of explorer Vitus Bering. Reconstruction by V. N. Zvyagin, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Moscow. 1992-1995? Photographer: Jan Oelker, Dresden.
Title from image caption Additional information : Iceland explorer [Vihjalmur Stefansson?] who came around the Northeast Passage to north land and from there with Joe Barnard on TEDDY BEAR schooner