Title from verso. Photograph of bomb damage after an air raid on the Japanese positions on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "Fires rage in Jap [ Japanese ] installations on rocky Kiska following a severe pounding by U. S. Army planes on the Nip...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
47 second, black & white/silent, film clipof earthquake damage in Seward and Kodiak. The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake left the waterfronts devastated -- fires burning, automobiles and other debris floating in the water, ships cast up on shore,...
Title from caption in album. View of the Chugach Mountain Range and a road heading that direction. There are mountains, trees (some apparently damaged by fires), and snow in the distance.
Title taken from caption.
Photograph of the bridge at mile 88 of the WAMCATS line. Caption with photograph reads: Signal Corps bridge at 88. 90 feet long. Cribbing, securely pinned with 2 inch wooden pins, built three to five higher than...
View of the sign welcoming people to the Seward Municipal Boat Harbor in Seward, Alaska. The sign reads: "Welcome. Seward Municipal Boat Harbor. The following rules are posted for your safety and convenience. Anything left on ramps, floats or...
View of smoke from fire, possibly a controlled burn, and fire trucks at right in southcentral Alaska. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1966-1967? Photographer: William L. McNutt.
Leonhard Seppala and an unidentified woman with their dog team and sled on ice, as Seppala builds a bonfire. n.d. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 4 3/8".
Title from image caption On treeless plain, six Native Americans and one person in a suit gather around campfire in front of single tipi; saddled horse at left
Two boxes of 3"x 5" typed index cards containing annotated references to events and issues, both broad and personal in scope. For example: Labor history and strikes, Ferry boats, bakeries in town, drunk driving incidents.
News clipping attached to verso: Smoke rising from fires started by the blasting of American forces marks the small island of Kinnaw, off Chicagof harbor, Attu, where a group of Japanese were making their last stand before the U. S. troops which...
Verso: “Outside the village Naatsilanei heard the sound of a woman crying. It was his wife!” From Fires on the Water, 1989, Naa Kahidi Theater [written by Dave Hunsaker]. Photo by Fred Andrews.
Following the war, U.S. Army forces in Alaska were primarily concerned with training. However, they rendered many services to the public in fighting forest fires, in search and rescue and medical aid. Soldiers from Fort Richardson guarded...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 5 seconds, MPG-1 format. Polar-orbiting satellites can orbit the Earth in 90 minutes, enabling them take daily photos of nearly everywhere on...