Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Title from image Three women and two young boys pose in the street, holding pails filled with berries; wooden houses in the background, including a log cabin with sod roof Photographer's number 6
A man washes up while a women reads a book at their camp on Kenai Lake near Seward, Alaska. ca. 1910. Photographer: Elsie Blue. Original size of photograph: 6 1/4" x 4".
"Pioneer Mining Co. dump on winter fraction. Nome, Alaska April 21st, 1910. 50,356-1/2 yd buckets, height 98 feet." There looks to be a mining operation to the left, with miners and a large pile of tailings on the right.
Three people stand outside a tent structure in what looks to be a camp of some sort. There is another building nearby with a firewood stack against the outside wall. Hanging from a high post behind the people are three...
Title by indexer. Image shows a man wearing glasses, jeans and a white shirt holding a metal pail up to the mouth of a musk ox. Several other musk oxen wait in a line for their turn. The man and musk oxen appear to be inside an animal pen....
Title from cataloger's notes. Image has Fairbanks Daily News-Miner property stamp and notes on the verso. Verso reads: "Girl Scout Camp. Harding Lake - 1956. Mrs. Gray (Lola) Tilly. Dips Water. 2 Col." News-Miner stamp reads: When reproduced,...
Frank and Dora Tobuk in front of their house in Bettles in 1978. Photo by Curt Madison. It appears on the back of Frank's biography by Curt Madison and Yvonne Yarber written...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
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...
Title from caption. Photograph of Ted carrying an empty five gallon bucket from Mrs. Rivenburg to his master, Mr. Gasser, at the experimental station. "Mrs. Rivenburg at cabin on "The Farm" gives "Ted" an empty 5 gal. can to carry to his...
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...
Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.