Sign promoting Feather Merchants Second Annual Ball hanging over a bar, with people in the background. Sign reads: "Feather Merchants 2nd Annual Ball! March 21, 1944. Ambassador Club. Anchorage & Fairbanks, Alaska. Remember Too to Buy War Bonds....
Title taken from caption. View of table set for celebration with coffee pot, candles, silverware, and cake in Anchorage, Alaska. Event is described by Beulah Marrs (later Beulah Marrs Parisi) as "one of a series of state night events designed to...
Title taken from verso. Group of children at Holy Cross Mission school gathered for outdoor photograph. Also from verso: "They came from villages all over western Alaska taken about 1944." 1944. Original photograph size: 3" x 4".
Group of men (in uniform) and women posing outside Lake Spenard shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, with Lake Spenard at right. From caption: "Mabel Weber back row, 4th from left. Edith White in front at left. Bee [Beulah Marrs, later Marrs Parisi]...
Three men in military uniforms sitting in front of East Anchorage post office in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Neil Clarahan, Bill Feeley, ?" Sign on wall reads: "Post office. East Anchorage, Alaska." ca. 1944. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from sign in photo. Woman sits under sign advertising "Date Nite" at USO building in Anchorage, Alaska, with men on either side offering her cigarettes (left) and beverages (right). Also from sign in photo: "Every Sat[urday] night,...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Group photo of soldiers next to train on tracks in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Herman Windoff, Bill Williams, Bill Lumness, Fred Kermott, Andy Anderson, front, Lewis Workman, Kenny Nicholson." ca. 1944. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Group of people gathered around table as woman prepares to cut cake during party for 714th Railway Operating Battalion, United States Army, in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "The cake says: 714 RRB 714 Railway Batallion [Battalion]." ca. 1944....
Father Hubbard, "Just back from Attu Island; [presents] The Aleutian Battleground, The Story of Americans in Action on the American Front; and Other Adventures of the Glacier Priest; Color Motion Pictures"
A main log building sits on the left side of a gravel road with two small log buildings to the right. Sky filled with big clouds, with no snow on ground. Appears to be summer or autumn.
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Rusty Dow, posing by the door of her truck, was the first woman to drive the Alaska Highway. Sign on door reads "RICHARDSON ALASKA HIGHWAY 2917 BANKS DISTRICT". Rusty Dow is in uniform. Original photograph size: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch.