The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Title taken from verso. View looking south across Kenai Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, at mile 19 1/2 of Alaska Railroad. Photo number 12. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Title taken from verso. ARRC's Dormitory and official housing of Palmer Colony c. 1932-1942. View down a dirt driveway, with clusters of buildings in distance. Mountain in background. 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 contact print, 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 neg
Title taken from caption. Caption also notes: "12 1/2" x 11 1/2". 1 1/2" deep." Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
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 taken from verso. View of Alaska Railroad bridge over Eagle River near Anchorage, Alaska, with log building in foreground. Photo number 68. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Horses in a pack train crossing snow, Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, Alaska, near Tiekel River, on what is now Richardson Highway. From verso: "1/2 mile from Tiekel Roadhouse (1963) then called "Tekel". (Location 49 1/2 mile). Right hand side of road...
Title taken from front. View of Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska, looking south toward Resurrection Bay. 1906? Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Title taken from front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
Title taken from front. View of the Methodist Church in Seward, Alaska, looking southwest with Mount Marathon and Iron Mountain in the background. Also from front: "1100. McMullen." Photographer's number 1100. 1949-1959? Photographer: Sylvia...
Title taken from front. Inside the Episcopal church showing the painting of the Resurrection that Jan van Emple did for the rerodos of the church. Original size of photograph: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Looking north on Fourth Avenue from dock in Seward, Alaska. On the right is the Alaska Central Railroad trestle that leads to the dock. 1905? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 11 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Title from front. Four men with a dog team and sled fully loaded in Seward, Alaska. A stove is lashed onto the back of the sled. 1905-1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2".
Title taken from front. View of Seward, Alaska taken from a boat on Resurrection Bay. Mt. Marathon and Bear Mountain are in the background. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from front. View of Seward, Alaska looking north from Resurrection Bay. John E. Thwaites' photographer's mark is on the front of the photograph. 1905-1910. Photographer: J.E. Thwaites. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".