Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 1:01 minutes MPG format. Sitka is a city of about 8,700 people nestled beside the forested mountains of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. The climate is mild with temperatures from the mid-20's to 30's in the...
Title from cataloger's notes. Also from notes: "Pictured left to right - Al Jones - Brother-in-law to Lee Loomis, Clarence C. Loomis - son of Lee Loomis, Ray H. Loomis - son of Lee Loomis, Lee B. Loomis, Lucile Loomis - daughter of Lee Loomis,...
Title from image. Photograph of an Indian village near Dawson. This village has been identified as "Moosehide" by Susan Parsons, Collection Manager of Tr'ondek Hwech'in. "A south looking view of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in village of Moosehide,...
Title taken from stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska 10th and East G - - privies and shacks predominate in this scene. Poor housing is one of the major factors in the high degree of illness of children under 10 years of age in this portion of...
Title from caption. Photograph of a fish wheel near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish, specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish wheels, two of which...
Title from image. Photograph of a fishwheel on the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
Description from verso: This picture taken on June 8, 1978 in the Senate Chambers is a remembrance of the retirement from the legislature of the Dean of the Senate, Senator John Butrovich.The photograph includes a history of the Alaska Senate...
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....