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....
This was a very talented club and is considered to have been one of the finest in the then territory. However, stern opposition came from Artillery teams Battery B; Battery C and Battery D; U. S. Marines; Army Camp Riley; USN Patrol Squadron; Army ...
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...
Title by cataloguer. "Dr. Bunnell, John J. Kowalak photographer, c/o University of Alaska, College, Alaska 1944." According to Terrance Cole, who has describes this image in his 1994 book 'The Cornerstone of College Hill,' the crash had...
Title from verso. "Rear Admiral Konstantin Rodionov draws a bead on a tempting ball during a game of 'smoker' [snooker?] pool at the officer's club of the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, Great Falls, MT, where the Russian...
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 caption. View of people gathered near car representing USO covered with flowers for Fourth of July parade in Anchorage, Alaska, with man in uniform at left and woman with camera at right. Also from caption: "Blue lupin[e] and...
Title taken from caption. Group of girls in costume riding on float during Fourth of July parade in Anchorage, Alaska. July 4, 1944. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk circa 1944 and depicts Juneau, Alaska from a pier on the waterfront. There is a woman standing on the pier on the lower left of the photo and mountains rising behind the town.
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".
Title supplied by cataloger. Woman standing next to large snow pile or drift, which largely obscures the railroad depot behind it. On photo: Grandview, 1944. 3x4 contact print, 3x4 neg
Title supplied by cataloger. Passengers on railroad tracks next to Alaska Railroad train, unloading skis and other baggage. On photo: Grandview, 1944. Alaska Railroad--Moose Pass to Portage. 3x4 contact print, 3x4 neg