Title taken from verso. Prospectors are leaving Fairbanks for Dennison Fork. Identified left to right are Abe McCord, Charles Philips, Albert Bell and Gus Buhman.
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...
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 from indexer. Group of people standing outside of a Evangelical Covenant Church of Mekoryuk. Several of the men are holding a bell. Four of the men have been identified by Hultman and Dorothy Kiokun of Mekoryuk.
Title from verso. Man standing in front of church to the left of the door in winter. Tall steeple and bell tower above the roof, adorned with a large cross. Appears to be church of the Holy Cross Catholic Mission.
Title taken from caption. View of the Katmai Village Church and its bell. The area was covered in water by the Katmai Flood and Robert F. Griggs states in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes that the bottom of the bell was the high water...
Title taken from caption. View of a street in Valdez, Alaska. A group of men are leaving a building on the right that has a sign reading "Buffet". The next sign on the right reads "Copper Block Rooms". The second building on the left appears to be...
Title taken from caption. Photograph of the school bell at Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. The bell sits on two barrels by the water's edge. 1938-1941. Original photograph size: 2 3/8" x 3 3/8".
Title taken from caption. View of log Russian Orthodox mission at Eklutna, Alaska, with cross atop bell tower. ca. 1955. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title taken from caption. A view of the two-story Methodist mission church with a bell tower in Nome, Alaska, with a dog lying on the boardwalk in the foreground. 1920.
Title taken from caption. A view of several two-story Christ Church mission buildings, including a church with a bell tower, in Anvik, Alaska. A construction site with sawhorses is in the foreground. 1919.