A fire truck sits in the middle of the street while a fireman holds a fire hose during a fire in Seward, Alaska. In background, spectators watch firemen fight the fire in a building at left. Aug. 1935. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of...
A fireman is on the roof in the back of the building with water hose during a fire in Seward, Alaska. Flames are shooting from roof. Aug. 1935. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 4 1/2" x 2 3/4".
A flight crew from the 77th Bombardier Squadron (Eleventh Air Force) stands beside a plane on the runway at Adak. Left to right: Weldon Preddy, Joe Fontaine, and Ken Wood. Marsden matting (steel interlocked plates) covers the ground. Original...
A view across the parking lot to the front of the one-story church building in Palmer, Alaska. From caption: "Palmer, in the matanuska Valley. The Community Church." Original photograph size 4" x 4 3/4".
Accession Number: 431 a
Description: wood; carved
Found: Valdez
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wood spoon. Bowl and most the back is "natural" or light tan color. Red pigment has been painted onto the bowls rim, handle and on the...
Aerial view of ribbon-like meanderings of the river bed over the flats, Copper River, Alaska. From verso: "Copper River, AK." n.d. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4 1/2".
Alaska Highway construction workers drive pilings into the Liard River in Canada during the construction of the Liard River Bridge. Verso: "Driving Piling Liard River." Original photograph size: 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inch.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Arthur Hansin Eide standing by a portion of map of Alaska, with three pieces from the Alaska Collection, Cook Inlet Historical Society Museum, Anchorage, Alaska. Cook Inlet Historical Society Museum, which was eventually incorporated into the...
As a fire rages on, businesses move their stock out into the street in Seward, Alaska. Aug. 1935. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 4 1/2" x 2 3/4".
B: Made from piece of metal (oil, gas can?) with metal handle already attached; folded around two side pieces of wood; l2 teeth of wire with blunt tips; bracing at base and at top, near tips of teeth; used; 3" x 4 3/4" x 7 3/4"; made by Ed Mersen,...
Basket made of willow and with single rod coiling. Is small
and round with a slight constriction at the rim. Has small
designs that consist of three parallel vertical lines which are
done in colored wool or sewing thread, in a variety of
colors. 6...
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...