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.
Contents: Letter of transmittal. Testimony of Chief Kah-du-shan from Wrangel; Chief Johnson (Yash-noosh) from Juneau; Chief Koogh-see fom Hoonah; Chief Kah-ea-tchiss from Hoonah; Chief Shoo-we-Kah from Juneau; Chief Ah-na-tlash from Taku;...
Relief shown by contours. "Topography by C. E. Griffin, D. L. Reaburn, D. C. Witherspoon, H. M. Eakin, C. E. Hill and T. G. Gerdine." "Surveyed in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1910, and 1911." U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 536, Plate 1. 57 x 112...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows three grave stones amongst snow and grass. A hill sits in the background. Caption from finding aid reads "Graves at St. Lawrence Island 1958 [Grave maker for] Capt. Charles Buckles May 3, 1899"....
Ms. (photocopy). Annotated with building identifications. "Copied from map U.S.C. and G. Survey 1899 and brought up to September, 1905, by Hampton M. Roach, Jr., Pvt. Co. L 3rd Infty., and brought up to June 1909 by Frank P. Tingley, Q.M.D....
Title from image. Postcard of Middleburg river and carriage bridge. Narrative in photo album reads: "Through this bridge I walked day after day to finish high school in 1899. It is now replaced by a steel structure."
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: The Steamer "Queen" frequently ran north to and from Alaska and the Northwest. John Muir, who would later become a member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska (scientific) expedition, noted boarding the...
A snow covered town in the vicinity of McCarthy, Alaska.
McCarthy, Alaska takes its name after a prospector named James McCarthy, and the nearby Kennicott Glacier is named for the early explorer Robert Kennicott. Both men were honored this...
Title taken from caption. " Head of College Fjord, Port Wells, Alaska. Starting at left of picture and going across. Bryn Mawr Glacier, Smith Glacier, Baltimore Glacier, Radcliff Glacier, Harvard Glacier and College Point.
Title taken from caption: "Ship Star of Alaska at anchor in Chignik Bay." View of the ship "Star of Alaska" docked in Chignik Bay, Alaska. The ship started out as the "Balclutha" on January 15, 1887 under British registry, and in 1899 it...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title hand-written on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 17, 1961 and depicts the dining hall at Camp Denali in Mount McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park and Preserve). There are six people and a dog...
A view of the Lindsay Hotel in Porcupine, Alaska, a two-story dormered log building. Jack and Sally Irene Cole Lindsay built the hotel in 1899 and operated it until it was destroyed by fire in 1907. This photograph is made available by the family...
Front view of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall building in Skagway, Alaska. The building front is covered with driftwood. Signs on the building include: "A B [Arctic Brotherhood]," "Camp Skagway No. 1," and "1899" above the doorway. ca. 1925.
Verso: The man on the left is Christian Henrik Buschmann, P.T. Buschmann's oldest son and first superintendent at Petersburg cannery about 1898 or 1899. In the middle is Arne Thormodsater, storekeeper; and at right is Ludvig Larson, bookkeeper....