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,...
Title from verso. Photograph of Japanese camp, showing excavated bunkers/dwellings. Verso reads: "Americans inspect a torn-up Aleutian battleground in this panoramic view of the Holtz Bay area of Attu, where strong Jap [ Japanese ]...
Color photo of a man standing in front of 14 bear pelts . Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska on Mar. 15, 1910 and addressed to Mr. Newton Clemons, Medina Co. [County], Devine, Texas. Written on the verso, "Dear...
(5:52 min) (17 of 19) Business continues to grow Bought out Mr. Goes and Mr. Pearl. Bought out the bus service to the University. In 1931, took over Ravell Brothers and ran freight between Valdez and Fairbanks. Fall of 1931, bought a...
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...
13 min, 43 sec film clip, color/sound. From introduction voice-over in part 1: "This edition of The Alaska Report also features a floor statement delivered by Senator Robert Byrd in honor of Senator Stevens's 82nd birthday [November 18,...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. " Building the annual Bonfire in September 1928 at the Alaska University. Cataloguer's note: The Annual (freshman) bonfire was evidently an elaborate and momentous affair; as seen by the amount of work that went into...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Crevasses, Itivdliarsuk glacier." View of members of Alfred Barton's party, a group that traveled with Peary to Greenland in 1896, taking measuring temperatures in crevasses on a glacier.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "(2 weeks in this position.)" View of the Revenue Cutter Bear surrounded by ice near Barrow. Two men stand on the ice beyond the bow of the ship. An unreadable photographer's number is on the bottom...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "(Peary on the bridge.)" Robert Peary stands on the bridge of the S.S. Hope. The ship is surrounded by ice, near Cape Mercy, Labrador Sea, between the coasts of Greenland and Canada.
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 page in British atlas: maps and charts accompanying the Case of Great Britain, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "'Nigger head and the Spencer in the distance." The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) sits in Nikolski Bay to the right of the geographical feature now known as High Hill on...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Bureau of Fisheries buildings on the left." Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Probably a porpoise." Handwritten below: "or beluga." View of a man crouched over the skeletal remains of a marine mammal. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological...