Photograph used in Alaska Sportsman, September 1964, Milepost, pg. 37. [Photograph also shows building that used to be the Driftwood Restaurant, later the Fiddlehead Restaurant, and is now the Sandpiper Cafe]
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "1939. B.C. - Near Telegraph Creek. Slim -." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title from caption and verso. Verso reads: $4.50. #30. Galena, Alaska. 1955." Image shows a DC-3 airplane parked at the Galena Air Force Base. The words "Arctic Liner. Fort Yukon" are visible on the outside of the plane below the...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Benson. $1.50. Galena, Alaska." Image shows a military flat-bed truck loaded with oil barrels next to a yard full of similar barrels. The oil drums on the ground are shown laying on their sides. Some of...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "3-. #30. Galena, Alaska. Toxic." Image shows two men wearing gloves standing on several barrels in a yard full of oil barrels. Barrels may contain waste materials. Lids of the barrels are labeled in...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "1-. 30. Galena, Alaska." Image shows two men unloading oil barrels from a military flat bed truck at a yard where several oil or waste barrels are stored. Another man can be seen in the driver's seat of the...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Toxic. Galena, Alaska. 1955. $4. #30." Image shows five men in military uniform sitting and taking a break on top of oil barrels. Some of the men are wearing gloves. In the distance hundreds of barrels are...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Galena, Alaska. 1955. Toxic relaxation. $10. #30." Image shows five men in military uniform sitting and taking a break on top of oil barrels. Some of the men are wearing gloves. In the distance hundreds of...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
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...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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View of damage and flooding of an oil storage area in Homer, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Sign atop the building, left center, reads Standard Oil Company of California. Storage tanks appear to the right, center. Damage to buildings...
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.