Title from verso. Group of men testing oil from a seepage near Anchorage, Alaska. Verso reads: Oil geologists examining seepage at Anchorage. 1. Alfred H. Brooks, U.S. Geo Surv. 2. Ed Nolan, chief geologist Genrl [sic] Petrol [...] co. ...
Students in biology laboratory seated at table examining clams, taking notes and recording data. Microscopes, textbooks in use and a bare light bulb hangs above them.
View of two men wearing plastic aprons and standing in front of a set on work stations, St. Paul Island, Alaska. Captions read "Cancer research" and "Scientist at work St. Paul". Photo taken between 1963 and 1969. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x...
Title taken from caption. Portait of botanist and expedition leader Robert F. Griggs at National Geographic Society Base Camp in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer: D.B. Church.
Title taken from caption. National Geographic Society expedition leader and botanist Robert F. Griggs clipping his beard at Base Camp, after a season at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer:...
Title from sleeve. Man stopped in tall grass carrying two dead pups on a wooden pole laid across his shoulders. These are probably fur seals and not sea lions. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from verso Lachapelle stands in the doorway of a Jamesway hut, which serves as headquarters for the glaciologists who are exploring Lemon Creek Glacier, near Juneau. The boxes on the foreground are supplies paradropped by the 558th...
Head and shoulders engraved portrait of the German born physician and traveler, G.H. Langsdorff, who worked for the Russian American Company and accompanied Rezanof to California in 1806-1807
Title taken from verso. The following is from a caption attached to the back of the photograph: "As a Twenty-eight-year-old graduate student in 'human geography,' Don Charles Foote traveled to Point Hope under an AEC research contract. For...
Title taken from verso. Image shows Alfred Lindley and Harry Liek following their 1932 ascent of Mount McKinley. The Lindley-Liek Expedition was the first successful attempt to reach both peaks of Mount McKinley. This party also...
Title from verso. Image shows a man leaning over a grave in the snow on the side of a mountain. A shovel and a wooden pole mark the location of the grave. Theodore Koven's body was discovered near the head of Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley...
Title from verso. Theodore Koven's body was discovered near the head of Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley by the Lindley-Liek Expedition in 1932. Theodore Koven and Allen Carpe were scientists working on a high altitude cosmic ray research...
Title taken from label on matting. S.M. Johnson, University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant paleontologist, holds mastodon bones recovered from placer mines near Fairbanks, Alaska. Also from label: "(Mastodon pelvic bone and femur). (Temp. 52)."...