Handwritten note reads "Geo Shoppard Trading Post, Mt. [Mountain] Village." Building at top of hill near electrical tower. Part of another building is visible in the right corner of image.
View across the frozen Susitna River to the town of Susitna Station. In March 1920 Irving Reed traveled the Iditarod Trail by dog team. In his magazine article, "Rainy Pass by dog team," he wrote that Susitna station was...
George Glass and his seventeen year old son Ophir, pose with their dog teams outside the Northern Commercial store in Takotna. A magazine article by Irving Reed (Alaska Sportsman, v. 31, Oct. 1965, pp. 8-13) identifies...
Title from caption. Photo also bears the inscription "Goetzman." Image shows people standing on a riverbank. Buildings can be seen higher up the bank on the left side of the image. Two steamers with smokestacks and two barges can be...
Title from verso. Image shows two Native men leaning against a railing. The men are dressed in fur clothing, and one man is wearing a knitted hat. Behind them a building with a business sign is visible. A man pushing a wheeled loading cart...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a post office and another building with a sign reading "Coghill" and "Trade with Coggie". The store appears to have been owned by William A. Coghill.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man walking in front of a post office and another building with a sign reading "Coghill" and "Trade with Coggie". The store appears to have been owned by William A. Coghill. Another building sits behind...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two women standing on a snowy street in Nome. Behind them sits a house and The Trading Post. Caption from finding aid reads "Two women in Nome". Location is Nome, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a man walking outside of the McGrath trading post. Caption from finding aid reads "Trading post McGrath". Location is McGrath, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows the McGrath trading post in winter time. Caption from finding aid reads "McGrath trading post". Location is McGrath, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows many different types of fur pelts hanging and lying in front of the Rodman Alaska Trading Co. A piece of white paper is lying across the center of the image.
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...
"Ott and Scheele owned the Northern Commercial Co. store at Eagle, Alaska. Having purchased it when the Northern Commercial Co. discontinued their Eagle Trading Co store at the left of the picture, he dealt mostly with the natives. The building at...