Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Warehouse goes down -- Listed as a total loss by Elmendorf AFB engineers, this supply warehouse went down during the havoc-creating Good Friday earthquake which struck...
Title taken from accompanying notes. "Livengood, 6/72 [cabin; photo has negative]. A dilapidated cabin with roof caved in and parts of exterior wall missing.
Title taken from accompanying notes. "Livengood, 6/72 [cabin; photo has negative]." A dilapidated cabin with roof caved in and parts of exterior wall missing.
Title taken from accompanying note. "Paxson Lodge 8/84." A view of the dilapidated Paxson lodge from across the highway. The front entrance appears to be boarded up. The right side of the building has collapsed or been demolished. Compare...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Old store in McCarthy, 8/84." Sign on the building reads "RO.G. Watsjold. Groceries & meat. Hardware." The sign to the left of the building (faintly visible) reads: "General Merchandise". The old general...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Vern Forbes at mine on Babe Creek, 1987". A man standing in the woods holding a spade. Behind him, old metal sheets and large pieces of lumber litter the ground.
William Pitka is sitting in an old wooden chair in front of the ruins of what was once a sod-covered log cabin, at a place called Purgatory along the Yukon River.