African-American soldiers stand at attention on the Klondike Company's wharf in Dyea. Note from Karl Gurcke: They were (in Dyea) for a brief period of time (July 1899) before they were burned out by a forest fire and had to move to Skagway.
Caption below image reads, "Where I passed a cold night." Three men stand in snow near front of Long Lake Hotel Restaurant, mountains behind; no other buildings in sight.
Cyanotype photograph of a stern wheel steamboat, its deck crowded with passengers, taken near Dyea on Lynn Canal, Alaska in 1898. Photo taken by Walter Curran Mendenall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on...
Cyanotype photograph of Captain David Legge Brainard (left), 14th U.S. Infantry and leader of the Alaska Relief Expedition, and Captain George Ruehlen at Dyea in 1898. The two men stand in front of a tent with boxes stacked to the right. Both have...
Cyanotype photograph of Dyea, Alaska, from the road above town, in 1898. There are boats in the foreground, a bridge crossing a stream bed on the road into town and several buildings. Photograph taken by Walter C. Mendenhall during the 1898 Cook's...
Cyanotype photograph of of a tent with the flaps tied open showing the contents inside. Items inclue a mattress, an armless chair with print fabric, a stove, a bucket, and luggage. There are patches of snow outside the tent, and a pile of chopped...
Cyanotype photograph of the Lady Lake, a 58-ft. steamer tug built in 1896, and a barge off of Dyea, Alaska. The masts of a larger ship are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin...
Cyanotype photograph of U.S. Army expedition members in uniform, each holding a rifle, pose for a photograph in front of several tents and a wooden building. A pile of logs is visible on the left. This photograph possibly depicts members of the...
Cyanotype photograph of view of several tents of varying shapes and sizes near a wooden fence. Two of the tents have smokestacks, one of which is smoking. A pile of logs is visible outside one of the tents. Possibly taken at Dyea. Photograph taken...
Cyanotype photograph taken from the deck of a schooner, looking across Lynn Canal at a stern wheel steamboat, its deck crowded with passengers. Photograph taken by Walter C. Mendenhall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, led by Edwin...
Cyanotype photograph taken looking across Lynn Canal at a stern wheel steamboat, its deck crowded with passengers. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the U.S. Army. The...
Cyanotype portrait of (left to right) Lieutenant McCain, a man identified as "Regimental Adjutant," Colonel Thomas McArthur Anderson, a man identified as Cabell, and 1st Lieutenant John S. Kulp, taken in Dyea in 1898. The photograph was taken...