Handwritten note reads "X-ray unit arrive, Holy Cross, May, 1949." Group of people near an airplane and sled. Two teams of dogs are also present. A wooden frame appears to be attached to one of the dog teams.
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...
48 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Romig Collection, 1930-1932". Film shows the arrival of Matt Neimanen with his wife and child in Anchorage, Alaska, on a ski plane. On the side of the plane appears to be...
Title from verso. Photograph of American bombs falling on Kiska. Verso reads: "This is the first picture to arrive here showing bombs from an American plane heading for the flight strip which the Japs [ Japanese ] have been building on...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf showing five steamships. An advertisement for Moore's Wharf Co. is attached. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf Skaguay Alaska 4 years after completion. July 4th 1904 date of this photo. No. 1....
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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62 second, color and black and white, silent film clip. Sequence shows people at the crash site of a Star Airlines Bellanca aircraft. The passengers and crew build a fire and at the end of the clip dog teams arrive.
Title from cataloger notes. Full cataloger notes read: "Passenger and two children arrival over Alaska Highway from Key West, Florida. The longest trip ever recorded at that time traveling by bus."
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title by cataloguer. In the Spring, Fur Seals come to the "rookeries", beaches or Islands where they mate and give birth. The rookeries for the Northern Fur Seal are in the Pribilof and Commanders' Islands. Note: Each seal mates on the exact...
Title from attached caption. Photograph of a soldier and a civilian helping a refugee child off a bus following the 1964 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Full caption reads: " Evacuees Arrive In Fairbanks. Citizens of Valdez arrived by bus...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Poles Arrive -- Airlifted in to the stricken community of Seward, Alaska, telephone poles were hustled into the city to replace those downed by the earthquake. The...
Title from accompanying notes. "Waiting for the final word on when the planes [would] arrive to evacuate the people of Valdez ak. to Glennallen Ak., prior to being taken to Glennallen, following the Alaska [Earthquake] 3/28/64". A crowd of men...
Title from verso. "Russian interpreters and civilian technicians arrive at Nome base of the Alaskan Division, ATC. American officer at extreme right is Capt. (now Major) Neil W. Phillips, Jr. of Palos Verdes Estates, California. Photo by US...
Title from accompanying notes. Two men pose in front of hand painted sign that says "Welcome main party. Russell Glacier Hotel. A.J.J.E.X. '67." Behind them is a supply cache and a mountain glacier.
Title taken from caption. The expedition party was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard Duane (formerly the William J. Duane). Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Myself, Osborne and a sea-man." View of Alan May, "Ozzie" Osborne, and another man aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological...
A marching band waiting at Pier 39 for a ship to arrive. Air Force members can be seen waiting inside the pier building. A black box with a yellow strip on the side of the building reads "Life Rings."