Title taken from caption. View of several log buildings with stacks of logs in front near Chena River, Alaska. A greenhouse is in view to the left rear of the house. From verso: "Chena River June. 36 mi[les] from Fairbanks. Run by old pioneer....
Title taken from caption. Aft view of the sternwheeler Gen'l J. W. Jacobs in Nenana, Alaska. Major Gillette sits on a dock piling next to the vessel. From verso: "The river boat that took us from Nenana to Russian Mission. This boat is run by the...
Photograph of two Alaska Road Commission employees, seated and with their feet on the desk, in the Fairbanks office in February 1929. One is smoking a pipe. From caption: "'At work' during a rush hour."
Title taken from verso. View of decorated altar area in the Russian Orthodox church at Russian Mission, Alaska on the Yukon River. From caption: "Elaborate altar in Russian Church." June 27, 1928.
View of two women standing in front of a three-story log building. From caption: Telle [Estelle Garges] and Katherine in front of our Apartment House Fairbanks September 1928." The sign at the forefront of the photograph partially reads Lewis...
The building of the bridge on the Steese Highway spanning Birch Creek. A few workers are visible on the structure of the bridge. From verso: "Span 1 being erected. Birch Creek Bridge Alaska. August - Sept 1928."
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
Winter scene of tents, men, and construction equipment and supplies forming a construction camp along the Steese Highway. From caption: "A road Camp Steese highway."
Title taken from verso. Notes attached to the photo read, "Back, Fred Beeler, John Boswell, Wilson W. Walton, Gene Brice, Don Mueller, Robert Mize, ---, Saddie Pratt, ---, Charlie McMahan, Leslie Chester; Next to Back, Elizabeth Grigsby,...
View of a boy leaning over the railing aboard a car ferry crossing the Tanana River. A truck is on the ferry and the town of McCarty (later Big Delta) appears in the background. From verso: "Car ferry on Richardson Highway across the Tanana at...
Title taken from caption. Two men and a dog cross the Chatanika River in Alaska. The man at the front is pulling the craft along a rope stretched across the river. From verso: "Tom [Strobie], George [Moore], and 'Big Boy' cross the Chatanika River...
Title taken from caption. View of flooded street in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 1929. Several people are crossing flooded ground on a wooden sidewalk to the right of the photograph.
Title taken from caption. View of grave markers and graves in the Russian Orthodox churchyard at Russian Mission, Alaska. From verso: "Russian church graveyard at Russian Mission. Picture taken from belfry of church. June 27, 1928."
Portrait of Henry Hansen partially seated on a wood structure behind a log cabin. From verso: "Henry Hansen, Eskimo. The mail carrier's assistant. Kuskokwim Portage. July 2, 1928."
Portrait of Herbert Lawrence holding a Signal Corps trophy for winning a dogsled race in Fairbanks, Alaska, March 1929. Judge Cecil H. Clegg is in the background with his hand on the sled. From caption: "Herbert Lawrence (half breed) driver of...
Title taken from caption. A view across the Chena River toward Fairbanks, Alaska. A bridge is to the left of the photograph, a man is standing on the stairs leading down from the bridge into floodwaters. The Northern Commercial Company buildings...