Title taken from front. Looking north at Millionaire's Row at top of the hill on Third Avenue in Seward, Alaska. Houses shown left to right include the Stewart House, the Winter House, the Holland House, the Cameron House, the Hale House, and the...
M.B. Holland House on Millionaire's Row, Third Avenue in Seward, Alaska. Mount Marathon is in background and dog lays in foreground. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 7/8" x 4 5/8".
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title from verso. View of a bar and other wooden buildings in Hyder. They are built on pilings. Sign on the bar reads in part "Traversy's. Hyder. Alaska. Olympia Beer." Hyder is the easternmost village in Alaska. Original photograph size: 4 5/8...
Title taken from image. United States Army Corps of Engineers company area at Fort Raymond. Image shows a long line of men queued up in front of the mess hall, waiting for their meal. Original photograph size: 2 7/8 x 4 5/8 inch.
Title taken from verso. Richard O. Amundsen, carpenter for Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colony, washing clothes in Palmer (formerly known as Warton), Alaska, with log building in background. Also from verso: "May 26th 1935."...
Group photo of Henry Rossiter, Campbell (supply foreman), and Almer J. Peterson standing together at building construction site in Palmer, Alaska, during Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colonization Project. From verso:...
Band members wearing identical hats and sweaters pose with some of their instruments on the street outside a hotel. A sign hanging from the building reads "Hotel [?] European". This photograph was possibly taken in Cordova, Alaska. 1920's? Original...
Baker Engineers employees stand outside their construction camp mess hall in Galena. A sign on the building reads: "Const. Camp Mess Hall Michael Baker USED Army personnel only". Baker Engineers was under contract to the United States Army Forces...
Verso: "Smith, Underwood victum [victim], Walsh, Glenn, Harper". Photograph shows Smith shaving Underwood's head at the Baker Engineers construction camp in Galena, 1944-1945. (L-R) Walsh, Glenn, Harper are joking around in the background. Baker...
Winter shot of William Herbert Newlove, part of the construction crew on the Alaska Highway. He is wearing a hat, mittens and a scarf and leaning against a military truck. Verso: "I have about all the clothes I own on in this picture. Northway...
Several men stand in the snow outside a trailer that had caught fire. Items from the trailer are lying on the ground; a ladder is propped against the side of the trailer. Several containers are stacked beside the door. Original photograph size: 2...
Title from Verso. Two men look at a piece of farm machinery (a tiller?) attached to a tractor. Four children are seated on the tractor and machine watching them work. Several farm buildings are visible in the background. Original photograph size: 3...
View of construction equipment, steamrollers and various trucks, on ground being prepared for an air strip in Interior Alaska, circa 1943-1944. 26-Mile Airbase later became Eielson Air Force Base. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 5/8".
View of construction crew paving an airstrip at 26-Mile Airbase (later Eielson Air Force Base), Alaska. The men are working with shovels to spread fresh asphalt behind a truck carrying asphalt and a mechanized spreader. 1947. Original photograph...
Title taken from verso. View of several steamrollers lined up along the air strip being prepared for the 26-Mile Airbase (later Eielson Air Force Base) in Interior Alaska. 1947. Original photograph size: 3 1/4 X 4 5/8.
View of villagers gathering around a whale being cut up, Barrow, Alaska, with children climbing on it and baleen visible at right. n.d. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 4 5/8".