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. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
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...
Two women looking at display featuring large model bug smoking a cigarette during 13th Annual Flower Show sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Sign in...
Title taken from caption. "15 oz of Tolovana Dust, 1917." Indexer's note - Jewelry cases or small boxes of various sizes and shapes are displayed. "Tolovana dust" could possibly be gold flakes seen here on a saucer, and covered by a drinking...
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, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]". At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir...
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. View of a Valdez commercial street with some people walking in the distance; a mountain is in the background. "Valdez was a typical, busy Alaskan town of the early pioneer days -- wide open of course. Most...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The first steamboat goes up the Copper and Chitina Rivers to carry supplies for the Kennecott Mine and to build a railway. The next day we floated lazily down the Chitina River, a much bigger and somewhat...
Full title: At*xa*x Matal Txin Agunaa / At*xam tanadgusigan ilan 1973 slugan ilan agulgaqas Bruce D. Marsh ; Amilaayum tunugan ilan alu*gasaqangis Moses Dirks, Nii*gu*gim tunugan ilan a*giqangis = the building of Atka Island / produced in Atka...
47 second, black & white/silent, film clipof earthquake damage in Seward and Kodiak. The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake left the waterfronts devastated -- fires burning, automobiles and other debris floating in the water, ships cast up on shore,...
View of participants and spectators at a parade for the opening of an oil refinery in Kenai, Alaska. From front: "1966 Oil Refining Opening - Kenai". Photo taken in 1966. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title from caption in album: "Aug 17 - 1st ram killed - This was the carcass the bear later dragged 300 yards [+] buried". Photograph shows a dead Dall sheep lying in bushes on a mountainside.
Title from caption in album: "June 1 - 2 sheep on cliff north side of Wounded Bear Cañon". Photograph shows a rocky mountainside. From album #7, page 75 verso, bottom right.
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- 200 yards inland -- Heavily damaged and left high and dry is a modified WWII landing barge, which was used to haul freight in the Seward, Alaska, area. Although the...
View of sign and flowers in window display in Anchorage, Alaska. Sign reads: "You are cordially invited to the Anchorage Golden Jubilee 22nd Annual Flower Show, August 14-15. 4 pm/9 pm on 14th - noon/7 pm on 15th. No admission ch[ar]ge. Co...