Title taken from back of photograph. "Bailey's off campus living quarters and shared by mining engineering students in 1940 and 1941. The structure was built during the summer of 1939. The frame was built (?) of 2" x 6" rough hauled from a...
Title taken from donor's caption. "At Tonsina 90 miles from Valdez. The spot we selected for our camp was in a small grove of spruce trees at the head of a deep valley where two glaciers came down out of the towering mountains. We built a large...
Title taken from verso. Full title on verso reads, "First silo in Fairbanks district perhaps in all Alaska, built by J. F. Hielscher, fall of 1905. Lumber cut and matched by Noyes' Mill = Tanana Lumber Co. Iron bands by Barrack Blacksmith...
Title from caption. Photo also bears the inscription "Goetzman." Image shows people standing on a riverbank. Buildings can be seen higher up the bank on the left side of the image. Two steamers with smokestacks and two barges can be...
Shows roads and trails in the regions of the Klondike and Sixtymile River gold fields. Includes notes on roads built in 1901 with mileages. Selective relief shown by hachures. "W. Thibaudeau, Territorial Engineer." "Under authority of the Hon....
Title taken from verso. Photograph of the Ice carnival house built by Pietro Vigna, March 1934. Otto Geist on far right in bird feather parka. Visible in the photograph are many examples of native hunting and fishing equipment such as seal poke...
Title from caption. Photograph of an Indian school. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right--school built and maintained for Indians by U. S. Government. All Alaskan Indians must support themselves getting only medical treatment &...
Title from image. Photograph of an Indian village near Dawson. This village has been identified as "Moosehide" by Susan Parsons, Collection Manager of Tr'ondek Hwech'in. "A south looking view of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in village of Moosehide,...
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title by indexer. A woman in front of James Wickersham's house.
"Originally situated on the corner of 1st Avenue and Noble Street. It was the first house in Fairbanks built with milled lumber and a white picket fence. The lot was...
Captures some of the landmarks and landscapes found in Wrangell; these include: the harbor, a totem pole, Wrangell Fire Department, the Wrangell Sentinel, the post office, a building labelled "Campbell Brothers", the 49th Star Theatre, and a wooden...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Nels Rasmusson built it, 1909; owned now by Bill O'Leary, Elsie O'Leary, Aug 1983 [log house]." See the same house from the opposite side at UAF-2003-139-130.
View of a group of women standing next to a fire department car (ambulance?) in Anchorage, Alaska. Christine McClain is the third woman from the right of the photo. The women are holding small cans that read "Give American Cancer Society" and bags...
View of the radio building at the Cape Chiniak "White Alice" facility, on Kodiak Island, Alaska. White Alice was a form of radar built by the U.S. Air Force in the mid 1950's. Built during the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force intended...
View of two workers climbing the dome atop a "White Alice" facility at Cape Chiniak, on Kodiak Island, Alaska. White Alice was a form of radar built by the U.S. Air Force in the mid 1950's. Built during the height of the Cold War the U.S. Air Force...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Nome's first engine was swept over by storm 1936 before built the sea wall. 7-6-52." View of the wreckage of the first train engine in Nome, Alaska. The wall of rocks in the background make up the sea wall...