03 More military training (3:36 min.) (03 of 09) Pearl went to Sweetwater, Texas, to train with the Women's Air Corps. She heard that there was a need for pilots in Alaska. In 1944, she headed to Fairbanks, Alaska. She got stuck in Seattle...
103 second, black & white/sound film clip. From title frame: "Dec. 22, 1944 / National Archives Collection". Film shows aspects of the lend-lease act, including road construction, Russian, American, and Canadian military personnel, and...
[Mg] Simon Bolivar Buckner, was commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command when war broke out at air base headquarters on Amchitka Island in May 1944. General Buckner first commanded the Alaska Defense Command as a colonel in July 1940. That...
Accession Number: 72-96-16
Description: spruce root; grass; black; orange; blue-green; woven; decorated
Descriptive Narrative: One large Tlingit spruce root basket. Three bands of false embroidery in several different colors of dyed...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Descriptive Narrative: A lamp of granite, oval with raised rim 1" wide and 3/4" deep. Broken completely through center. Old Num: XIII.12 Notes: reference: p. 5 Quimby. 1944 Chicago Natural History Museum, Anthropology Leaflet.
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Full title: The Aleut language, the elements of Aleut grammar with a dictionary in two parts containing basic vocabularies of Aleut and English, by Richard Henry Geoghegan; edited by Fredericka I. Martin.
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]...
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....
Group photo of "Bonanza Days" cast in costume on stage USO building in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Names on back." From verso: "Lorene Harrison, Bee [Beulah Marrs, later Parisi], Priscilla Williams?, Lou Owens, Al Brewer, Rosemary?, Priscilla...
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".
Howard Jonish (on left) standing outside the Kotzebue Grille, ca. 1940's. Text on photograph reads "Kotzebue Grille America's Farthest North Restaurant." Howard Jonish was a construction engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, from...