View of Ship Creek area, Anchorage, Alaska, with tents and buildings. Businesses shown include The Crest House, Anchorage Fish Market, The Panhandle, Montana Pool Room, White Road House, and Riverside Hotel. 1915. Original photograph size: 6 3/4" x...
View of pedestrians and businesses in Anchorage, Alaska, including Bank of Alaska. 1915. Photographer: The Sydney Laurence Co. Original photograph size: 5" x 8".
View of buildings and businesses, early Anchorage, Alaska, with men and horse drawn wagon. Log cabin on the right was the first residence on Government Hill, belonging to Joe Curten. From front: "Anchorage July 1915." Businesses shown include U & I...
View of baseball players lined up for a group photo in Anchorage, Alaska, with tents and spectators on the edge of the ballfield. In the background tree stumps of recently cleared land can be seen. From front: Anchorage, July 4th, 1915. Laurence."...
Verso: Original is 7½ x 18" print in possession of Skagway friend of Mildred Sparks, Haines. Copy print by Sara Besser Bldg. was later Haines House Farmer's Cottage after 1924. Known names: (l to r.) F. Barnett, Vera Sindhaln, Nellie Hopkins,...
Title taken from verso. A long line of people are seen coming up the hill, during an event that appears to be ceremonial. Each is holding firewood. A church is visible to the right. [Place identified as Anvik by comparison with...
Title taken from verso. Wide view of Douglas harbor, including island with octagonal wooden building. Small boats are moored in harbor. Wooden buildings and other vessels, large and small, are seen across Gastineau Channel.
Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...
Title taken from verso. Interior view of drug store with soda fountain, tables and chairs. Signs in image: Agents for Wiley B. Allen Co. Pianos and Player Pianos, Sanitary Soda, Collar Buttons 10 cents each, Oriole Chocolates, Peerless, Diamond...
Title taken from verso. Group of men, including J.L. Jenkins, standing with horse in front of tents at first camp in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "J.L. Jenkins - first one in picture." 1915. Photographer: Laurence. Postcard. Original...
Title taken from sign on wagon in photo at left. View of early wagon on display in Palmer, Alaska, with truck, sign, another wagon, and building at right. Sign next to wagon reads: "There is beauty in the sunlight and the soft blue heaven above. Oh...
Title taken from paper label on front. View of townsite of Ship Creek (later Anchorage), Alaska, in very early stage. 1915. Photographer: Alberta Pyatt. Original photograph size: 7" x 10".
Title taken from notes. Two story building with porches. One section of porch is glass enclosed. A man sits on the porch. Four cannons and a flagpole are mounted in the front yard.