This color slide depicts a man in a red jacket standing in an unidentified body of water in Alaska holding a dip-netting. There are snow-covered mountains in the background. The slide was taken circa 1953, and the photographer is identified as...
Title from verso. "Larry Sanford, 1953." A young man is standing in the middle of the street. He is wearing overalls, a jacket, and a hard hat. The work site can be seen in the background. (This may be in the Matanuska Valley. See...
Title from verso. "Larry Sanford 1953." An outdoor portrait of a man wearing what appear to be heavily stained rubber overalls, a jacket, boots and a hard hat.
View of spectators watching a musher and his team of dogs during the Fur Rendezvous dog races held in Anchorage, Alaska. Signs on the buildings in the background read: "Anchorage Grill", "Royal Bar", "4th Ave. Mens Shop" and "Seeley Drugs."...
View of the spectators watching an all white dogsled team racing down 4th Avenue during the Fur Rendezvous held in Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage Grill restaurant is in right background and sign on building in center background reads: "Yukon Office...
Title taken from caption. Excerpt from caption: "From 11 am to 2 pm the sky of Anchorage was in total darkness. Result from the eruption of Mt. Spurr on 9 July 1953. Photograph taken about 5 pm. Car to the left is a Chrysler. Car to right...
Title taken from caption. View of three women at table with typewriter and piles of papers totaling up awards at 'Carnival of Flowers' flower show at Denali Grade School in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from caption: "Totaling up awards. Esther Thompson,...
Title taken from caption. Robert Mounteer pulling canoe from Tazlina Lake along creek in Southcentral Alaska, with dog on shore at right. Aug.-Sept. 1953. Photographer: Robert Mounteer. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. Group of musicians and singer performing, with audience partially visible at right. Instruments shown include piano, bass, trumpet, and saxophone. April 1953. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur...
A group of Cordova Airlines passengers gets into jeeps at the May Creek Airfield, prior to exploring McCarthy, Alaska and the Kennecott Copper Mine operations in Kennicott. From caption: "This is our cavalcade of tourists at the May Creek airfield...
A group of tourist walk along railroad tracks in Kennecott Copper Mine area in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "From 1913 to 1938 these tracks were used to haul copper ore from Kennecott [sic] down to McCarthy and then on to Cordova, where it was...
Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
Wilma Knox leans on a bridge in McCarthy, Alaska, with buildings in the background. From caption: "It was very early morning in McCarthy when Bob got this picture of me leaning over the old bridge at the edge of town. Notice the beautiful white...
Three cars are lined up outside a house in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is examining the third car, a jeep. The middle car was President Warren G. Harding's touring car when he visited Valdez, Alaska. From caption: "The car in the...
Interior of the bar in McCarthy, Alaska, where a bartender pours drinks for the tourists standing at the bar. A Great Northern Railway calendar is visible on the far wall. From caption: "Just a shot of the old bar where we had a beer before supper....
Wilma Knox walks down a street in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. From caption: "Bob caught me from behind as I strolled down past what must have been some kind of recreation hall. We looked in the window and there were seats inside and a large...
Tourists look at the Model T Ford railroad car and open-air cars, their "express", at the old train depot in McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is in the foreground. From caption: "Our passengers are arriving at the depot to board the "express" which...
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Tourists look at the aerial tramway used to transport copper ore between the mines and the mining operation at Kennecott Copper Mine in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "This tramway, located at the back of the mine building, extends way back into...