Title taken from caption on Album. "Str. Gen. Jacobs leaving Nenana with men drafted for war. June 1917". [The full name and dates of the Sternwheeler is as follows: General J. W. Jacobs ( 1908 - 1940 ).]
Title taken from accompanying note. "Jerry Miller, Tony Zak." Jerry Miller (left), the artist Tony Zak, and an unidentified boy (in a taller person's lap) are sitting in a kitchen. An open box of chocolates sits on the table. Tony Zak was a...
Title by indexer. A rear view of a float plane on the water and along the side of a building. The top of the building is marked with letters that may be "RPN", "RPM", "RPW", or "RPH". Location and dates are inferred from context: compare...
Title taken from sign in photo. A warehouse, perhaps a freight sorting area, with large bins and an overhead sign that reads: "Materials in Transit are worse than useless". Several large bins or containers have the following location...
Title from caption. "(c) Winter - [Pond] Co. First aeroplane flight over Juneau, Alaska. August 16, 1920." Verso reads: "NY / Nome Black Wolf Squadron flew over [Juenau]. Pilot Kirkpatrick dropped packet for [Government]. For Mrs. Loftus - We...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy fixing the wheel of a trailer on his homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai peninsula, Alaska, circa 1951-1955. The dog lies on the ground beside him, and there are various buildings behind...
Expedition journal, 73 pages. Dates from June 14 to September 30, 1885. 3.75 inches wide by 5.75 inches high. Continues the description of the Allen Expedition to its arrival at Fort St. Michael on Sunday, August 30, 1885, as well as the trip from...
Expedition journal, 50 pages. Dates March 20-June 13, 1885. 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches high. Discusses the Allen Expedition up the Copper River and describes their activities and hardships; it also contains weather and other scientific...
The notebook is a diary of a young Inupiat school girl named Alva Nashoalook, who relates events in her daily life in Icy Cape. The dates given are June [27], 1912 through April 1, 1913 Subjects include walrus and seal hunting, trapping, reindeer,...
2 boxes 3"x5" typed index cards.
The files contain Kinky Bayer's colorfully annotated references to historical and current events in Alaska towns. Some examples of topics are: Aboriginal rights claims, Canadian versus American duties, building...
Sign in image reads: American Forest Week, April 22-28, 1928, A Week to Think and Talk of Forest Benefits, Timber - Water - Health. Cross section of a Sitka Spruce tree, with rings marked to indicate the dates of notable historical events: The...
This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...