Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Alaska Railroad tracks at mile 97 along Turnagain Arm on Cook Inlet, Alaska. Photographer's number 8068. Sept. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8" x 9 3/4".
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Title taken from caption. " Copper River ice jam, Nov 2C - 98." Looking up stream from Copper Center. Photographer: P.S. Hunt, photo No. 97. Reproduced from glass plate.
One map on 2 sheets. "By Robt. Morden & Will'm. Berry." Shows California as an island; much of the Arctic is blank. Relief shown pictorially. Ancillary map: [Polar projection of the arctic and subarctic]. Decorative cartouche including Captain...
One map on 2 sheets. Shows California as an island; much of the arctic is blank. Relief shown pictorially. Ancillary map: [Polar projection of the arctic and subarctic]. Decorative cartouche including Captain John Wood's coat of arms. Many...
Title taken from front. View after blasting during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction at McHugh Creek, Turnagain Arm, Alaska, with men on tracks to right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G271." Photos AMHA-aec-g268, AMHA-aec-g269,...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.