Photo montage of three photographs showing contestants in footraces during 4th of July celebrations in Ruby, Alaska. Text on top photo reads: "Start needle & thread race. Ruby, Alaska. July 4, 1917." Text on middle photo reads: "Three-legged race....
Arthur Eide playing the guitar for his son, Arthur, with phonograph. From verso: "I (Arthur Eide) serenading son, Arthur. 1917 - Little Diomede Island." From verso of original photo: "I serenade my son Arthur in the work room on Little Diomede...
Relief shown by spot heights. Annotated. Rail and steamship lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway shown in red; other railroads and trails shown in black. "Checked to Dec. 1923, C.P.Ry. Lines." "A 6044." In color.
Title taken from caption. "Mile 385 looking south. August 26th, 1917." A dirt road at the base of a hill with a stream to the right. A camp with few tents can be seen further ahead. This is an Alaskan Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from caption. "Looking north from Mile 384. August 27th, 1917." View of a dirt road with the river and trees to the left and a hill to the right. This is an Alaskan Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 77. ...
Title taken from caption. "Drag line excavator loading ballast near Nenana, Alaska. August 24th, 1917." This is an Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 67. August 24, 1917. Photographer: A. J. Johnson.
Four crewmen use hammers and axes to chop ice from the deck and rigging of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Ungala while it is at sea in the Gulf of Alaska. From verso: "Icebound Jan 1917. Revenue Cutter Ungala. Between [Situk?] and Yakutat Bay running into...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction site in Interior Alaska, where railroad ties lay covered by gravel and sand from nearby creek after July 1917 flooding. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Two photographs on one backing (top) needle & thread race with Ruby Kelly fifth from left crouching and (bottom) three legged race 2nd person left to right Tom DeVane, and the third pair is A. Verhonick and Ruby Kelly. Both photographs are of...
Title from verso. View of a dog team standing on the ice on frozen Birch Lake. Five dogs are harnessed to a small sled and the driver, Calvin F. Townsend, is standing behind it. The lead dog is identified as "Sox." Trees line the shore of the...
Title from verso. View of car races at a 4th of July celebration in Fairbanks in 1917. Formally dressed men and women are sitting on bleachers behind the racing track. Several of the women are holding parasols. Photo may have been taken...
Group portrait photo of a woman wearing a crown and robe sitting down with men standing around her. Sitting in front of her are women, and a man dressed up like a jester. Postcard is postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Dec....
Typewritten on recto: "Ice in mouth of Ship Creek, March 7th, 1917. This shows the large lumps. The largest one is about 25' in diameter and 20' high. A few of these, at times, are found among the floating ice."
Title taken from caption. "Drag line excavator loading ballast near Nenana, Alaska. August 24, 1917." This is an Alaskan Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 68. Photographer: A. J. Johnson.
Title taken from caption. "View of Ball Park at Anchorage, Alaska, taken during the celebration on Fourth of July. The barrels, boxes and horses on the ground were used in an obstacle race, one of the events during the day.
Title taken from caption. "[Tamerack] Swamp. Shageluk Portage - 1917 #310." Verso reads: "1917. J. Young's team on the Tamerack Swamp, Shageluk Portage."
Title taken from caption "Photographers and topographers working on the summit of Bear Mt." View of Clarence F. Maynard in the background and one of the expedition photographers while they worked on Bear Mountain. Identity based on fact that...
Title taken from caption. View of bear tracks in the sand. Photo taken near Martin Creek in what is now designated Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of grasses sprouting out of the ash near a fence at Vegetation Station #19 on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of a tuff of grass growing out of an ash dune at Vegetation Station No. 21 near Kodiak. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. Sept. 12, 1917. Photographer: Robert F....