Color postcard with the title on the front. On the back it reads: Dear Bartlett, I am positive this will interest you-you were five years of age at the time-and just as fine a boy as you are a man. Sincerely, A. J. Raynor (Al)
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
In 1925, Norman H. Read (1891-1992) was part of the first expedition to climb Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America. Read returned to make a second ascent of the mountain in 1950, at the age of...
Title from caption. Portrait photograph of Edith Moore age 8 years and 7 months. Caption reads: "My daughter Edith taken at Tacoma, 8 years & 7 months old."
(5:24 min.) (05 of 24) 05 Move West Moved west at about age 19 or 20. Started with the Alaska Steamship Co. as a summer hire -- back then the company wanted you to start at the bottom and work your way up. Started as utility man doing...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Title by cataloguer. A three-quarter length portrait of a middle aged man sitting on a large, wooden chair with elaborate carvings, and a women of similar age who is standing beside him. Her hand which is resting casually on his shoulder,...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...
Ocha Potter, age 20. "In the early spring of 1898 came rumors of war with Spain. Soon war was declared. My father and grandfather had been Civil War veterans. An earlier ancestor had been an officer with George Washington's staff. Another had...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia Silverfriend, age 16 (Mrs. Ocha Potter)". "An overnight visit to my broken hearted mother who could see no reason why I should give my life to save Cuba from the Spaniards. Mother threatened to...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Portrait of Alice & Jennie." This is an image of a framed photograph. Jennie is sitting; her daughter Alice, (about age six) is standing close with one hand extended, holding her mother's hand. [They are the...
Title from verso. A close-up shot of a man with closely cropped hair, dressed in suit and tie, head slightly turned towards the camera. He may be an employee of Wien Airlines.
After a message from Marty Wells, Don Everly's daughter, in...
Shows Van Dieman's Land and New Guinea attached to the continent and the mythical Compagnie Land north of Japan. Relief shown pictorially. "Les Indies sont corrigees par M. Daprais, capitaine des Vaisseaux de la compagnie." Decorative...