Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from donor's caption. View of a Valdez commercial street with some people walking in the distance; a mountain is in the background. "Valdez was a typical, busy Alaskan town of the early pioneer days -- wide open of course. Most...
Title taken from donor's caption. "We built a boat here to run the river to the coast. Left to right, Tony Diamond, now (1950) U. S. Federal Judge in Anchorage, Alaska, George Potter, 'Bill' and Julia Potter."
Title taken from donor's caption. "Headquarters camp. Arriving at Valdez in mid-February, we were soon on the trail to McCarthy Creek. We reached the spot I had selected for headquaters in late May, something over 90 days out of Valdez. (In...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The first steamboat goes up the Copper and Chitina Rivers to carry supplies for the Kennecott Mine and to build a railway. The next day we floated lazily down the Chitina River, a much bigger and somewhat...
Title taken from caption. View of cannery from aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands. Identified...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Gisberg, 'Snake,' 'Doc,' and 'Mac.'" View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "One old timer there told me...
Title taken from caption. View of mounted gun aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane (formerly the William J. Duane). Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "The wife of a Coast Guardsman left this car for higher ground after leaving her husband aboard the Coast Guard Cutter BITTERSWEET (WAGL-389) on Nyman's Peninsula. The car literally floated...
View of houses along the Anchorage coast, hit by the 1964 earthquake. Title taken from back of photo: "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U.S. Air Force B-58 "Hustler" aircraft from the 43rd Bomb...
Aerial view of coast of Siberia, Russia, during flight from Nome to Northeast Cape, Alaska, with wing of plane visible in photo. Lettering on airplane reads: "N57131." From slide mount: "Russian coast. - In flight Nome to NE Cape Sept 6, 1955."...
Aerial view of coast of Siberia, Russia, as seen during flight from Nome to Northeast Cape, Alaska, with wing of airplane visible in photo. From slide mount: "Russian coast line in flight - Nome to NE. Cape - Sept 6, 1955." Photograph type: 35 mm...
Aerial view of west end of Anchorage, Alaska, with 9th Avenue at right and Alaska Railroad tracks running along coast in lower area of photo. July 26, 1965. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from caption. View of an airplane tied to the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer). Photograph taken off shore of Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Inset: Aleutian Islands. "The Yukon River, ranges of mountains, shores of Norton Sound and many features of the interior from a reconnaissance by W.H. Dall, Director of the...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Inset: Aleutian Islands. "The Yukon River, ranges of mountains, shores of Norton Sound and many features of the interior from a reconnaissance by W. H. Dall, Director of the...
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign with facts about Alaska posted on Alaska Highway, possibly near border between Alaska and Canada. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Facts on Alaska. Alaska is twice as large as Texas, covering...