The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Photograph shows single story log building serving as the Fort Yukon Post Office. The sign on front reads: "U. S. Post Office, Ft. Yukon, Alaska, 8 ML north of the arctic circle". There are flowers blooming along...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
View of Copper River flowing through Copper River Valley, Alaska, with Wrangell Mountains. From front: "Mt. Drum, 13,100 ft. - Mt. Wrangell, 14,100 ft. - Mt. Blackburn, 16,140 ft., Alaska." Photographer's number 601. n.d. Photographer: Sawyers....
Caption: Washington-- Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett greets Army Second Lt. and Mrs Terrance P. McLean, formerly of Nome, at his Washington office which the couple visited shortly after McLean was commissioned at Ft. Lee, Petersburg, Virginia. ...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts meeting with a U.S. Army officer on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably either a mother or troop leader, stands behind each...
Photograph shows snow covered peak of Mt. McKinley partially covered with clouds against a blue sky, they are both mirrored onto the surface of Wonder Lake in the photographs foreground.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Photograph label reads: "From Nenana it is completed 56 miles to the Nenana canyon where heavy rock work was encountered and three tunnels have to be driven, two 500 ft. each and one 600 ft."
Title from caption: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910: Mt. McKinley, Alaska 20,300 ft. from Explorers Peak, 9,000 ft." Postcard postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Aug. 22, 1913 and addressed to Tomie Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. ...
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....