Title taken from image. Haida woman sitting with cedar bark strip in mouth preparing for weaving; several woven baskets in foreground, c. 1897. Photographer's number 458.
Dogteam lined up in front of wooden buildings. A number of people look on. Eli Smith, an Alaska mail carrier, mushed his dog team 8,000 miles from Nome to Washington, D.C. in 1907, winning a $10,000.00 wager on this feat.
Title from caption. Notes: Feb 24, 1907 Wolf is identified as lying down. Frank Caldwell wrote a book about a sled dog team led by a wolf, based on Eli Smith and his leader. The book, Wolf The Storm Leader, was published by Dodd & Mead in...
Title from notes. Verso: Eli Smith with dog team delivering Nome Post-Masters (Alaska) letter to President Roosevelt (or to Post Master General Cortelyou?) - Feb 20, 1907.
Quentin Roosevelt in sled.
Title from image. Verso: Mail service by dog team on Yukon - just before the river breaks - note the water over the anchors in at the sides - 1906. Mail from lower river reaching Eagle. Andrews Photo.
Verso: Ben Downing's mail teams 1900[?] at Eagle, Alaska
Ben Downing Mail Teams in front of Post Office at Eagle, Alaska.
Photo of [by] C.L. Andrews, Western Engraving and Colortype Co.
Title taken from image. Man and woman seated on porch of white-frame house with curtained windows and sign, "Washing Woman. SEB 8, 189?" Possibly present day Willoughby Avenue.
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Gold seekers in camp, preparing for the overland journey to the far away Yukon, 1898."