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...
Caption: Reindeer shed their horns every year. The male shed six weeks earlier than the female, so that during the fawn season the mother may protect the young.
Title from verso. Highly doctored photograph of a U. S. Navy warship bombarding Attu Island. Original may have been overexposed and darkened for better visibility. Verso reads: "Confirmation that the big ones were in action came for the...
Hand colored. Latin and English with text in French on verso. Includes decorative cartouche, small illustrations of ships throughout, and coat of arms and dedication to Guilielmo Backer de Corneliis. From the Blaeus' Theatrum orbis terrarum,...
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.
The following is the text on...
Photograph of the USS Juneau at dry dock. Probably just prior to commissioning. The USS Juneau was sunk just after the battle of Guadalcanal, only 10 of her crew survived. Five of the dead from this ship were the Sullivan...
Title taken from caption. " S. S. Edith arriving at Valdez, Aug. 10, 1905 with railway materials. " Cataloguer's note: The S. S. Edith was one of Alaska Steamship Company's iron freighters. On one of her voyage from Nome to Tacoma in late...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Medical supplies being transfered from station wagon to high way state Police car at mile 57, Glenn hiway for emegency [emergency] flight at Gulkana to Palmer for the Hospital for the...
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...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Raft race, 1970." The raft race appears to be on its way, as various groups of rafters are on the river. A crowd is standing on shore watching the race.
The location looks similar to earlier photos of...
Title taken from caption. View of the chapel and girls dormitory of the Kodiak Baptist Church Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. The field in front of the trees and buildings is covered in ash. Photo taken during...
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 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 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.
Three cars are lined up outside a house in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is examining the third car, a jeep. The middle car was President Warren G. Harding's touring car when he visited Valdez, Alaska. From caption: "The car in the...
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:...
Title taken from caption. View of wireless radio station on Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedtion on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
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.