"The Healy River Trading Post, Upper Tanana. On left Fred Calendar's Cabin, fox pens, main store with living quarters behind and two small buildings one for tools ect., the other for the goats on the far right the sawmill."
A letter on the back of photograph reads "Have not seen Doctor B for quite a while. Mr.& Mrs. (illegible) and two little lasses come up to see us quite often. He is the science teacher here he came from Oregon City. Seems like our own people....
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.
Broad view from water, the slough between Resichl Way and Fritz Cove Road; wooden buildings on shore and small boat anchored out front; buildings may have been part of fox farming operation
Busy waterfront scene with riverboats FOX, TANANA, and one other, along waterfront; sign on warehouse reads, "Str. TANANA leaves 1 PM today, June 3, connecting with SCHWATKA for Dawson direct"
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Clipping from a publication with the subtext: The industry of "Fox Farming" has grown of late years into a business of large proportions. These pictures were taken in October 1914.
Cyanotype portrait of an unidentified man and Alaska Native woman,and three children sitting on a bench draped with animal hides and skins in the village of Knik on Knik Arm. The man has a mustache, and the women and two younger children have...