Title taken verso. View of men with beards, one dressed as policeman, at Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, with men without beards being "punished" by being put in stocks. Sign on building in background reads: "Headquarters...
Title taken from caption. View of crewmembers aboard the U.S.Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone en route from Unalaska to Seattle. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Group portrait of some of the crew aboard the U.S.Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Bosun Johnson and another crewmember aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title from verso. Caption on verso reads: "Capt. Jack Ballerude, A.A.C. Med. C. 1941 Army Test Expedition." Bollerud was captain in the Alaska Air Command Medical Corps at Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1942. He joined the U.S....
Title from verso. The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military units and the American Alpine Club to conduct cold-weather and...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Capt. Harold Lund, A.A.C., 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military...
Title from verso. The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military units and the American Alpine Club to conduct cold-weather and...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Sgt. Muesser A.A.C. 1942 Army Test Expedition. (? Listed as Corporal in E. Nillson's diaries.)" The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942....
Title from verso. The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military units and the American Alpine Club to conduct cold-weather and...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and...
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 by cataloguer. A shoulder length black and white photograph of an unidentified man wearing dark glasses and a trimmed beard. The man is well groomed, wearing casual clothes consisting of a black turtle neck shirt underneath an ordinary...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition reading to pass away the time on a rainy day. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. View of a group of musicians on a float in the Alaska State Fair held in Palmer, Alaska. Photograph taken Sept. 1978. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Cyanotype portrait of a man with a beard and wearing a hat in front of a tent in southcentral Alaska. There is a wooden building in the background with a lantern attached to the side. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring...