These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title and caption taken from verso of UAF-1970-11-51, from which this image differs only slightly. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu...
Typewritten on recto: "March 7th, 1917. View shows ice 15' thick formed around and under Dock #2 at mouth of Ship Creek. This ice is anchored to flats by freezing, and is not flooded by high tides, and therefore...
Typewritten on recto: "Ice in mouth of Ship Creek, March 7th, 1917. This shows the large lumps. The largest one is about 25' in diameter and 20' high. A few of these, at times, are found among the floating ice."
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: This is a a document granting charter to the listed names on the right, bearing a seal and signed by the President and secretary of the "Pioneers of Alaska" organization. The exact wording of the...
Title from image. Verso reads: "Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Musuem 121 West 7th Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501. B65.2.16". A man appears to be manually cranking the propeller of a biplane. "Anchorage No. 1" is...
Young male hockey players and their coach pose holding king crabs outside their sponsoring company's store at 7th Avenue and I Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Most of the team are wearing jerseys reading: "Quality King Crab." Sign above store reads:...
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa preparing for a fishing trip to Lake Kenai. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "On Sunday twenty five of the seamen and three officers hired a truck to take them to Lake Kenai for a...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa take a lunch break on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "At Mile 18 [on Lake Kenai] we went in three different parties in a motor boat...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa walk down a road near Ptarmigan Creek, a tributary of Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "There is a highway here [Ptarmigan Creek] which I am told goes...
Title taken from caption."Alaska Nellie" Lawing posing in front of her cabin. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "Near the dock where we landed there is a home owned by one Nellie. I found out that Nellie is a well-known Alaskan character. Stolfe...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Gisberg, 'Snake,' 'Doc,' and 'Mac.'" View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "One old timer there told me...
Title taken from caption. View of the severely damaged Mac's Foto building on Fourth Avenue. The building to the left was BJ's Billiards. The yellow sign (upper left) reads: Mac's Foto Service now at 322-7th Ave. The sign below and to the right of...
View of destruction to buildings along Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Large building near center is the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Signs on the far left, above the man's head,are mostly obscured. One does...
View of damage to a house in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Street sign reads 7th Av and L St. Other houses are visible. Fissures have formed in the land.
Title taken from front. Postcard shows walrus gathered on ice, Bering Sea, near Nome, Alaska. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "Today looks like fall, feels like winter of the states. "Ain't that awful Mabelle." FCH 8/29/09 Teller, Alaska....
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Labor Union Building in Anchorage, Alaska, located on 7th and 8th Avenues between G and H Streets. Building burned Sunday, Oct. 15, 1916. Signs read: "1916. Alaska Labor Union. Socialists and Pioneers." 1916....
Title taken from front. View of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture experimental station, Kodiak, Alaska. Inscription from verso: "July 7th. Dear Mother & Father - have been working hard at the store and have been too tired evenings to write - The next boat...
Title taken from verso. View of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad material yard in Anchorage, Alaska, with lumber piled at left and railroad tracks at right. From front: "Laurence. Sept. 7th, 1915. A.E.C. N. 13." Photo is property of Cook...