Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.
Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.
Title taken from caption. "A 110 lb Auto, Fairbanks, Aa. A.J.P." A man on a vehicle that appears to be two bicycles connected. What may be a fuel canister can be seen between the bikes; since there don't appear to be any peddles this may...
Full title: Suvali una? / aglakti Paniattaaq ; qi~niqtualiuqti Paniattaaq = And what is this one doing? / written and illustrated by Edna Ahgeak MacLean.
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from donor's caption. "This head was brought home and mounted. It hung on the wall in the living room of the Ahmeek home from 1920 except for a few summers at Keweenaw Golf Club. These sheep are now (November 1950) almost extinct...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, photo taken at Ponto's Road House 20 miles from Valdez. This malamute dog team held the speed record between Valdez and Fairbanks - over 400 miles in a little over 4 days."
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Inset in the middle of the postcard with the greeting are two photos of dogs mushing. Left side of postcard is captioned, "looking down river." Top left photo shows downtown Ruby with two people standing outside the...
Title from verso. "1920 [Fairbanks] tall man is Tom Morgan? Reproduced by Jerome Lardy."
Charles Mac Kay has identified the model and manufacturer of many aircraft on our website he has identified this as an American DH 4 as evidenced by the...
Title from verso. "De Haviland 1920 Black Wolf Squadron. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." Three of the squadron team members (of the 1920 Alaskan Air Expedition) are seen here in flight clothes, while they are having a bite to eat. Among them is a...
Title from caption. Caption states that this game took place at the second annual Fairbanks Ice Carnival, and that Fairbanks won the game. One player is identified as Gordy Picotte.
Title from verso. "1961 [roofing a building]." This photo shows men working at a construction site. They are laying what may be fiberglass insulation on the roof of a large building.
100 second film clip, color and black & white with an audio track. The clip shows damage from the 1964 Earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio track remarks on the dollar value of the damage, the loss of industry and effects on the...