Title taken from verso. Verso: Main Street Todd Alaska. Note the four people- Three in sight one around the corner. See the box. See the wheelbarrow. See the two story skyscraper- store bldg and mess house. See the flag and electric wires. Note by...
Men with rifles stand guard in front of The Manila Saloon Note: After Soapy Smith was shot, some of his gang members were rounded up and held in the Manila; seated on the far right is Si Tanner, who became the new marshal and was given a...
African-American soldiers stand at attention on the Klondike Company's wharf in Dyea. Note from Karl Gurcke: They were (in Dyea) for a brief period of time (July 1899) before they were burned out by a forest fire and had to move to Skagway.
Identified: Langhofer (Project Chief); Caroline Jensen, Ronald Mayo, Bill Twenhofel [USGS], and Ralph Marsh Note from Dave Stern: This Bell-47B cabin model, AF (Armstrong-Flint) helicopter, owned and operated by Knute Flint, assisted in USGS...
Men enjoying steam bath - note bundles of shavings in mouth to serve as respirators. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 464.
Note: 1893, written on image is probably incorrect date; Fr. Ioann (John) Bartnovskii (or Bartnovsky) was ordained in 1894, the same year the church was consecrated Photographer's number 289.
Title taken from verso. Note on verso (no date): The Jesse Lee Home, Seward, Alaska, a Methodist orphanage, still carries the camouflage paint which was applied during World War II when this area was believed to be in danger of attack by the...
Title taken from accompanying materials Three U.S. Loening OL-8 amphibians in flight; mountains in background Note: the aircraft carried cameras for photo-mapping the Tongass National Forest for the Department of the Interior
Inscription on image: Supreme Court - Judge Craig, Sr. Judge; Judge Duclos [Dugas]; Judge MacCauley, youngest of the three, 1912 Note: In 1912, an amendment to the Yukon Act reduced the number of Territorial Court judges to one. Judges Aime...
By Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953. Alaska the United States Colony Keynote address Alaska Constitutional Convention University of Alaska, College, Alaska, November 9, 1955.
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...
Title taken from verso. Lettering on planes, left to right: N.R.A.B. [Naval Reserve Aviation Base] OAKLAND 2, U.S. NAVY, 9487; N.R.A.B. [Naval Reserve Aviation Base] OAKLAND 5; N.R.A.B. [Naval Reserve Aviation Base] OAKLAND 4
Mathematic map data: Scale ca. 1:12,672,000 Publication info: [Washington? D.C.] : U.S.C.S. Dept., 1880. Physical descrip: 1 map : col. ; on sheet 31 x 39 cm. General Note: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year...