Title from image caption Full caption: "The largest gold nugget found in Copper River country; weight 51 oz. 4 DWT; value $900.00; property of Oregon-Shushitna Mining Co.; found by Dan S. Kane on Lucky Gulch, a tributary to Valdez Creek, Aug....
Verse on image (quoted from Robert Service poem): "And at night they gather round me, and I tell them of my roaming In the Country of the Crepuscule beside the Frozen Sea, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And they sit like...
Title from image caption; note written on verso: "Mixing mining and farming; mines are directly below gardens; Pedro was first creek upon which gold in economic quantities was discovered in the Tanana country" Panoramic view of large vegetable...
Title from image. Three women between totem poles on path in front of building. Verso: From a long distance the totem poles announced to the visitor that he was approaching the Alaskan Building. These totem poles, with the Alaskan Indians,...
Prince Maksutov, Governor of Alaska when the country was transferred to the United States in 1867. Alternative spelling: Maksoutoff. Full length portrait in uniform with drapery and cord to right.
Portrait of head on calling card. Bradley & Rulofson, S.F. Cal. Verso; Prince Maksoutoff [Maksutov], Governor of Alaska when the country was transferred to the United States- Presented to Captain G. F. Emmons, U.S. Navy, Commanding the U.S. Ship...
Title taken from image. Studio portrait of Governor Thomas Riggs. Photograph is heavily degraded with silver rising to the surface. Inscription on photo: To Dr. Daniel S. Neuman who has led me to many an unexplored country peopled by kenuks...
Title from verso. In 1942, Sascha Brastoff (1918 - 1993, born Samuel Brostofsky) enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was assigned first as a designer and then as a performer to the Air Force show “Winged Victory.” He created and impersonated...
Title from image caption Full caption: "Sample of gold from Nugget Gulch, Susitna Country, tributary to Seward, Alaska. Mined by Herndon, Jacobs & Morris, 1906. Value over $3,600.00."
Title drawn from verso; verso notes shown alongside photograph Three men pull loaded sleds through a pass in rocks; one dog is with them; snow covers ground
Title drawn from verso; verso note alongside photograph Frozen stream provides passageway through rocky, steep banks; ice and snow cascades down slopes
Title from image. Full caption: One may be our new flag. Grace Traube, employee of one of the largest flag manufacturing concerns in the country, stands by two of the many designs proposed as the new American flag. President Eisenhower will...