Thomas Riggs, who later served as the ninth territorial governor of Alaska from 1916-1921, wearing a fur coat and hat in the snow near log buildings in Dawson, Yukon Territory. From verso: "Tom Riggs July 31, 1901. Afterwards Governor of Alaska -...
Title taken from front. View of partially completed Alaska Engineering Commission railroad bridge over Hurricane Gulch in Southcentral Alaska during construction, with crane on bridge at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1880." An Alaska...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad bridge construction over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, with crane and buildings in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1883." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title taken from caption. View of a gas station and milepost located at the intersection of the Alaska Highway and the Glenn Highway in Tok, Alaska. Sign reads: "Whitehorse 401. Valdez [?]. Fairbanks 207. Anchorage [?]. Big Delta 110. Boundary 57."...
Title taken from caption. View of a trestle bridge over the Gerstle River along the Alaska Highway in Interior Alaska. Photograph taken Aug. 31, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. View of a log cabin and a cache located near mile 300 of the Glenn Highway in Alaska. Photograph taken Aug. 31, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. View of a Canadian Mounted Police station located at Haines Junction, a small town at the intersection of the Alaska Highway and the Haines Highway, in the Yukon Territory. Photograph taken Aug. 31, 1952. Photograph type:...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Haines Junction mi[le] 1019 Al[aska]-Hi[ghwa]y T[erritory], C[anada] 31-8-53." View of signs just outside of Haines, Alaska. Signs read: "Welcome to Haines, seaport terminus of the ALCAN, 159 miles of...
Title taken from caption. View of the old and new bridges over Ahtell Creek on the Glenn Highway in Southcentral Alaska. Photograph taken Aug. 31, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. View of the Robertson River bridge located along the Alaska Highway, Alaska. Photograph taken Aug. 31, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk and depicts the Johns Hopkins Glacier in John Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay, Alaska on July 31, 1963. There are icebergs in the water in the foreground and a mountain rising above the glacier. The...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Slumped polygonal frost cracks in the frozen silt, turf-mantled coastal plain along the Arctic coast in the vicinity of the 141st meridan. The deepest slumps are along systems of frost cracks that drain out...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Slumped polygonal frost cracks in the frozen silt, turf-mantled coastal plain along the Arctic coast in the vicinity of the 141st meridan. The deepest slumps are along systems of frost cracks that drain out...
Image appears identical to uaa-hmc-0166-b1-79-7-1. Caption on that image reads: "Topographer Guerin's camp on the Arctic coast. The cook Aleck Hartle in doorway of tent. July 31, 1912."