Cyanotype photograph of 2nd Lieutenant Joseph C. Castner sitting a log on a beach at Ladd's Station on Cook Inlet in late May or early June, 1898. Several tents and wooden buildings are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title taken from front. View of Matanuska Glacier, Alaska. From photographer's notes: "Matanuska Glacier emerging from the Chugach Range to join the Matanuska River as viewed from Glacier Point. (Mendenhall)." Also from front: "Mendenhall....
Title from sleeve. Sitting (R) Rachel Castner, Castner's sister (Ohio), Co-pilot Harry Cortimanche. Stand[ing] left; Mgr Matanuska Hotel Clarence Keating (Seward), Pilot Larry Flahart, Chief stewardess, unidentified. Behind Castner, Stan...
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: The first view the new soldier to Chilkoot received as his ship rounded the point...
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: Leaving camp for a training hike on snowshoes. It is snowing. The soldiers didn't...
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: The author as he looked at the time of the trek up the Chilkat River, July, 1936.
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: Our kitchen-dining room on the Chilkat. The snow didn't stop. . .Cold weather did...
From verso: Col. Castner, commander of the Alaskan G-2 Combat Scouts, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. . . Their mission was to wipe out any Japanese outpost and to give the signal to the force for entry into Adak Harbor.
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: Some of the men relaxing with a beer after the long hike up the Chilkat was over....
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: A group of Company E men going on a two-week camping and training [exercise] up...
From verso: Castner was largely responsible for the military intelligence system in the Alaska Theatre of operations On right is Brig. Gen. Frank W. Weed