Title taken from caption. View of house on shore of Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during a National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Almer J. Peterson standing next to wash tub and washboard doing laundry in Palmer (known earlier as Warton), Alaska, with buildings in background. Buildings are at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony. From verso:...
He had just returned a few months earlier from treatment for tuberculosis, which included the removal of one lung so this was a real triumph. He had also won the seal parka he is wearing. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller.
Accession Number: 50-68
Made: Russia
Descriptive Narrative: Brass cannon, mounted on a wooden support with iron mounts. Bore is 8cm diameter.
Found: Kodiak
Inscription: "No 1" inscribed on top surface of cannon....
Accession Number: 50-68
Made: Russia
Descriptive Narrative: Brass cannon, mounted on a wooden support with iron mounts. Bore is 8cm diameter.
Found: Kodiak
Inscription: "No 1" inscribed on top surface of cannon....
Accession Number: 81-3-3 Descriptive Narrative: Bronze medal. Octagonal shape (oblong with corners cut). Bust of man in military uniform on one side, sailing vessel and Russian inscription on reverse. Notes: Bronze medal issued by...
View of B.A. "Tony" Wickstrom and his rebuilt "old" mill on the site of the earlier Martin mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. The mill burned to the ground early in 1941. Fall 1940.
Title taken from caption. View of the cabbages in the garden of the Baptist Orphanage on Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
View of Seward, Alaska in earlier days. Bank building is on the right, Dr. Sleem's residence and office is on the left, and Federal Building is in the background. View is facing east. ca. 1906. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of...
Title taken from caption. View of B.B. Fulton taking a young girl, Mary Folsom, for a walk along the coast of Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area....
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. View of the main building of the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of house on shore of Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Ocha Potter, age 20. "In the early spring of 1898 came rumors of war with Spain. Soon war was declared. My father and grandfather had been Civil War veterans. An earlier ancestor had been an officer with George Washington's staff. Another had...