The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Crosses and Alaska Native grave houses marking grave sites in a cemetery, Galena, Alaska. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". Location identified as Galena by Paul Apfelbeck.
Cyanotype photograph of three fenced graves marked by Russian Orthodox crosses and spirit houses. Photograph takenduring the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the U.S. Army. The photographer is unidentified.
Early cemetery in Seward, Alaska, with buildings in the background. Cemetery is possibly in the area of what is now (as of 2004) between Second and Third Avenues near the railroad. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3" x 3 1/4".