Left to right Mrs. F. W. Herms (Emily), Dr. F. W. Herms Sr. and an unidentified man. They are standing in the Assay Office of the American Bank of Alaska (Iditarod, Alaska) in front of $125,000.00 of gold bricks.
Title from caption. Caption reads: "Johnson & Fornander's cabin Long City, Alaska, 1912. Where we voted Aug. 15. First cabin in Ruby Mining District." Photograph shows a log cabin and a flag pole with advertisements for Dr. F.W. Herms...
First Avenue in Ruby, 1913. Last mail over the trail before the breakup, spring 1913. Left to right-Mr. Myrick (the barber), mail driver, Dr. F. W. Herms, Postmaster Amos Kinzer, J. Slippern standing between cabin and post office. Others...
The Coleen M. Platner Photographs (ca. 1909-1920s) contain photographs of pioneer children and their families living in Alaska, chiefly Iditarod, Chatanika, Little Eldorado City, and Eldorado Creek. There are also photographs from Nome and the...
Dr. F. W. Herms with an unidentified man, woman and child at "Doc" Madding's claim on Flat Creek. A dog is visible in the lower right of the photograph.
"On the Iditarod-Flat Creek Trail. At my left Mr. Loussac who later became a prominant [prominent] citizen of Anchorage." Dr. Herms and Mr. Loussac dog sledding on the Iditarod-Flat Creek Trail.
"On the Iditarod-Flat Creek trail. Mr. Loussac, who became a prominent citizen of Anchorage later, is standing left of the dogs. I am at the handle (?). Sitting on the sled is a 'hitchhiker' (Mr. Artell?) whom we picked upon the trail."