From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Two people appear to be working to raise the towers of what may become a suspension bridge. Many of the photographs from UAF-2007-64-116 to UAF-2007-64-131 depict the construction or completion of the Graehl Bridge,...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Esaias George walking on the banks of the Yukon River just below Stevens Village. Narrative from album reads: "Above is Esaias George on the village bank of the Yukon in early spring. He was our favorite...
Title from verso Photograph of Japanese camp in Aleutian Islands. Identification as Rat Island is wrong or the location of this island in Kiska Harbor is wrong. The island in Kiska Harbor is known as Little Kiska Island. Verso...
(4:03 min) (03 of 19) Young adult #2 Traveled north. Shucked corn and by the end he was averaging 95 bushels a day. Went back home and got a job with his brother-in-law on a dairy farm. Took a class to become a railroad fireman. Train...
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,...
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.
(5:17 min.) (21 of 28) 21. Licenses and ratings
Discussion of the difficulties getting commercial license; the easiest way is to become an instructor. George got his license, then his instructor rating; the instrument rating was more...
Title taken from stereograph. "246-(11530) -- Arctic City is near the Arctic Circle on a branch of the Yukon River. You would know by everything in this view that you are in a cold climate. In the background are the snow-covered mountains with...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: The Steamer "Queen" frequently ran north to and from Alaska and the Northwest. John Muir, who would later become a member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska (scientific) expedition, noted boarding the...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A view of the Gulf of Georgia probably from a ship looking into the shore and the mountains further in the distance. The Gulf of Georgia located in Vancouver, Canada beginning in the mid 1890s has...
Title from verso. A close-up shot of a man with closely cropped hair, dressed in suit and tie, head slightly turned towards the camera. He may be an employee of Wien Airlines.
After a message from Marty Wells, Don Everly's daughter, in...