These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf showing five steamships. An advertisement for Moore's Wharf Co. is attached. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf Skaguay Alaska 4 years after completion. July 4th 1904 date of this photo. No. 1....
Images include people departing Brill Car (trolley) from Fairbanks at the College railroad station at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of mines (University of Alaska Fairbanks). Among the...
Title taken from the sign on the building. Cataloguer's note: The "dam" road house seen here to the right. A group of travelers and their animals seem to have just arrived or are getting ready to depart. Photographer's number D 79. It is...
Text on photo: "Dr. Good & Walter Goyne leaving Poorman, Alaska. After the Moose Carnival & dog races. March 24-31, 1917. Basil Clemons Photo". A group of spectators is gathered outside Cox's Roadhouse at Poorman, Alaska, observing Dr. Good and...
View of gold miners and dogs loaded with packs filled with gold preparing to depart from Chistochina, Alaska. From verso: "Taken at Chistochina Mutt [?] station. Notice the jacks on the men and dogs. The horses carry the bedding and carry outfit....
Cyanotype photograph of Lieutenant Henry Grant Learnard and his party standing in a boat, making preparations to depart for their exploration of the Susitna River on June 19, 1898. The photograph was taken at Tyonek by Walter C. Mendenhall during...
Title taken from caption. View of James Botsford and Harold Cowper, two of the 1938 expedition members, preparing to depart. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title supplied by cataloger. Sled dogs in harness on gangline. Automobiles in background, including red Radio Cab directly behind team. Slide carousel labeled, 'Joe Sr Airplane Crash.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Title taken from verso. View of Eskimo man standing next to boat made of skins at Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "The Eskimo hunter in Alaska's polar zone spend much of their time searching the rugged arctic coast for seal, walrus, polar...
Title taken from front. View of parade for Army recruits, Anchorage, Alaska, with spectators. Anchorage Daily Times building in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. H-76." From verso: "Building [middle left] used for court." An Alaska Engineering...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Three men stand next to snowmachines and sleds in front of a wooden building. Car in background. Slide labeled,'Gen Getty's leaving Knik.' Slide sheet labeled, 'Finding Iditarod Trail.' Slide...
Title supplied by cataloger. Dog Mushing. Dogs wait in snow while person tends to team. Spectators look on. Truck in background. Slide labeled, 'Roxie Brook's Team.' Slide printed 4/1975. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod. Dogs stand in snow beside parking lot. Joe Redington Sr.'s KYAK dog truck and other vehicles in the background. Slide labeled, 'Joe Redington.' This is possibly Joe Redington Jr.'s dog team. Original format:...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod. Men harnessing dog teams. Joe Redington's KYAK truck and other vehicles in background. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Dog teams lining up. Mushers stand at start with teams stretched out in front of them. Three-day race traveled 25 miles each day from Knik Lake on a portion of the Iditarod Trail. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. 1967 Iditarod Race did not travel the entire distance from Anchorage to Nome. It was a 3-day race, 25 miles per day, starting from Knik Lake. Automobiles and people on sidelines. Original format: 35mm color slide
Notes on Kankei Ibun (Voyages around the world)
Made with the assistance of Naoko Hoshino.
Vol. 0
Introduction
Table of contents with summary of each volume
List of illustrations
Vol. 1
Vessel Wakamiya-maru leaving Ishimaki, winter of...