Transcript of diary kept by Myrtle Ryan (later Bunger) in 1900 that describes her journey to and life in Dawson in the Yukon Territory and Nome, Alaska. Myrtle recounts how she traveled from Los Angeles, California to Skagway by boat in January...
Repeating background logo for "The Admiral Line, P.S.S. Co.," with an outline of a cruise ship labeled, "Cruising the world's smoothest waterway; thru the Inside Passage & 10,000 islands of Alaska"
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
View of Valdez, Alaska with snowy mountains in the background. The photograph was taken by Irving Reed from the steamer Alameda while traveling from Seattle to Seward so that he could travel the Iditarod Trail by dog...
(4:15 min.) (06 of 28) 6. WWII Some of his friends went to Canada to fly with the Royal Air Force [RAF]; many of them did not come home. George went to Africa to build runways and supply aircraft. He was with Pan Am/World Airways (Pan Am...
Title from cataloger's notes. Full note reads: "Passengers (tourist[s] off Alaska Steamship Co. boat) boarding bus at Valdez, Alaska dock for trip to Fairbanks."
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from label on matting. View from on board ship during trip from Seattle, Washington north through Inside Passage. Also from label: "(Temp. 159)." Photographer's number 8194. Sept. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph...
Title taken from label on matting. View from aboard ship during trip from Seattle, Washington north through Inside Passage. Also from label: "(Temp. 158)." Photographer's number 8193. Sept. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from label on matting. View from ship during trip through Inside Passage from Seattle, Washington to Skagway, Alaska. Also from label: "Scenery along this route is one of Alaska's greatest assets, according to the Division of...
Title taken from label on matting. View from ship of trip along Inside Passage from Seattle, Washington to Seward, Alaska. Photographer's number 8190. Sept. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8" x 9 3/4".
Title taken from label on matting. View of Kake, Alaska from on board ship, with dock visible toward right. Photographer's number 8347. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title taken from label on matting. View of La Perouse Glacier as seen from ship traveling from Seward to Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8455. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/4" x 10".
Top image shows Aleut man in single baidarka with spear and paddle; bottom shows three Aleuts in one baidarka From: Sarychev, Gavriil Andreevich, "Atlas of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean," compiled by the Imperial Navy Department, 1826