(5:40 min.) (06 of 20) Nome/Communications--Nome--Yearly operations--Shipping--Cargo--ACS--Communications--Shipping an airplane--Teletype machines--Operation changes and modern communications
St. John, Christopher (artist). Size: 40 x 36 x 1.5 in. Medium: Oil on canvas Signed, tilted, and dated verso. Title of original version "Double Header" verso.
Cordova dock and buildings in the moonlight. Sign on one building reads "New England Fish Co." Caption: "A 40 minute exposure at Cordova". Original photograph size: 5 3/4" x 4".
View of Providence Hospital from across L Street, Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Probably late 40's." 1945-1949. Original photograph size: 4 1/8" x 5 3/4".
Looking up a frozen river at a packtrain hauling freight at Gulkana, Alaska, with people standing at right. From verso: "Valdez Creek Mining Co. Freighting on river. Gulkana, Alaska. 400 tons freight. 76 sleds, 40 horses, 36 persons in party." ca....
Title taken from caption. View of the exterior of the Elmendorf hospital on Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. From verso: "USAF hospital Elemendorf [sic] is a modern seven-story facility built for 350 beds. It employs more than 450 highly trained...
Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Shows coastline from Icy Cape (C. Glace de Cook) to Shishmaref Inlet, including Kotzebue Sound. Includes notes on climate, vegetation and wildlife. Map no. 5 from v. 4 of "Atlas Universel de...
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 25 - Ram mountains as seen through the woods in front of camp". Photograph shows a range of mountains seen through trees in a forest.
Title from photograph UAF-2009-123-463, current caption in album: "Aug 25 - Same more to the South". Photograph shows a range of mountains seen through trees in a forest.
Title taken from verso. View of smoke and dust from explosives during Copper River and Northwestern Railway construction along Copper River, Alaska. 1909. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3" x 5".
View of pilot Noel Wien in Fairbanks, Alaska, preparing for first commercial flight between Fairbanks and Nome, with Fairbanks Mayor Dr. de la Vergne in derby. From verso: "The personal service which is a watchword with Wien was evident even in...
Title taken from label on matting. Three baskets woven from baleen, one with handle and two with lids, made in Point Barrow, Alaska, on display in Juneau. Photographer's number 8344. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/4"...
Title taken from front. Winter view of men standing near Alaska Northern Railway locomotive at mile 40, Hunter, Alaska, with snowplow on front of train. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number AN10. 1913-1915 Original...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad tracks at station 40 along Moose Creek Spur in Chickaloon, Alaska area. Also from front: "B5." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number B5. Sept. 13, 1923....
Contents: Letter of transmittal. Testimony of Chief Kah-du-shan from Wrangel; Chief Johnson (Yash-noosh) from Juneau; Chief Koogh-see fom Hoonah; Chief Kah-ea-tchiss from Hoonah; Chief Shoo-we-Kah from Juneau; Chief Ah-na-tlash from Taku;...