Aerial view of port, Anchorage, Alaska, after March 27, 1964 earthquake. From verso: "Property of the Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's negative number 866. March 1964. Photographer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Original photograph...
Aerial view of spit in Homer, Alaska with dock and boat basin built after damage from March 27, 1964 earthquake. March 1965. Photographer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
View of damage to tanks and railroad tracks from March 27, 1964 earthquake, Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Property of the Cook Inlet Historical Society." March 1964. Photographer: U.S. Army. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
View of damage to storage tanks from March 27, 1964 earthquake, Whittier, Alaska. From verso: "Property of the Cook Inlet Historical Society." March 1964. Photographer: U.S. Army. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
View of damage to railroad and storage tanks from March 27, 1964 earthquake, Whittier, Alaska, with Alaska Railroad engine number 1830 to the right. From verso: "Property of the Cook Inlet Historical Society." March 1964. Photographer: U.S. Army....
View of ruins of Portage Inn along Seward Highway at Portage, Alaska after March 27, 1964 earthquake, with chasm running alongside highway. Sign reads: "Portage Inn. Bar. Cafe. Hotel. Bar." Two helicopters sit on highway at right, with people...
Title taken from verso. View of a bootlegger's cabin near Chester Creek, Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Anchorage, Alaska. March 11/28." March 11, 1928. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from front. North view looking toward railroad trestle showing snowslides that buried tracks along Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "Showing snowslides which came down March 10-12 - [19]18. Extenting [sic] across track. A.E.C....
Title taken from verso. Mary Louise Rasmuson, wife of Elmer Rasmuson, stands next to sign to benefit March of Dimes in Anchorage, Alaska. Sign reads "American Cancer Society." Jan. 7, 1963. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 7"...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Title taken from front. Looking east across Resurrection Bay at 4th of July Creek drainage from Seward, Alaska waterfront beach. Also from front: "14B. L.N.G." March 21, 1909. Photographer's number 14B. Photographer: Lillie N. Gordon. Original...
Title from verso. Photograph of militia unit [ATG] marching. Verso reads: "On the march -- Alaska has been a U.S. possession for 79 years but the influence of the early Russian colonists still remains. Here at Sitka, Territorial Guards...
View of a front end loader and the pile of rubble it has created during the clean up effort after the March 27, 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska. Photo taken March 1946.