Title from caption. Photograph shows a group portrait of the first quota national army, local board no. 17, inducted June 27th, 1918 in Fairbanks, Alaska. All of the men are wearing suits and they appear to be standing in front of the First...
Title from verso. Photograph of first wave of landing craft heading for the beaches of Attu. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of...
Title taken from photograph. Caption on photograph: 7-28-27 Nome, Wien Airlines, First aiplane operation in Nome & Seward peninsula area. Verso: 1927 June, Nome, Alaska, start of first airplane operation in Nome. Notice spare prop. tied on...
Title taken from caption. " Judge R. A. Gunnison driving the first (a copper) spike in laying the first rails of the Valdez-Yukon Ry., August 16, 1906 ". Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G947
Title taken from donor's caption. "The first steamboat goes up the Copper and Chitina Rivers to carry supplies for the Kennecott Mine and to build a railway. The next day we floated lazily down the Chitina River, a much bigger and somewhat...
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: The girl in the foreground was an acquaint[a]nce from First Baptist Church. The housing in the background was typical of the time. People started with a log cabin when they first married and...
Title from caption. Captions-- At top: "The First Alaskan Air Expedition". Below photo: "Pilots of the Alaskan Expedition. From left to right, Captain St. Clair Streett, Flight Commander; Lieutenant C. C. Nutt, Lieutenant R. C. Kirkpatrick,...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Nome's first engine was swept over by storm 1936 before built the sea wall. 7-6-52." View of the wreckage of the first train engine in Nome, Alaska. The wall of rocks in the background make up the sea wall...
View of First Street in Nome, Alaska, with stores covered in American flags and many people walking down the street. From verso: "First St. looking East Nome - Alaska." July 4, 1901-1902. Photographer: probably Grace Carr Raymenton.
Interior shot. Image shows three ski patrollers, one female, two male, attending to two "patients" strapped to makeshift stretchers made of skis. A fourth patroller standing to the side is partially visible. Original photograph size: 4 1/2" x 3...
Title taken from front. Spectators gather around Alaska Home Railway engine as Valdez Mayor T.G. Quinn prepares to make the first run, Valdez, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's number G1665. Oct. 4,...
Title taken from front. Judge Royal Arch Gunnison driving the first spike in rail laying for Valdez-Yukon Railway, Southcentral Alaska, with spectators gathered behind. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's number...
Title taken from front. View of crowds at auction during sale of first land lot in Nenana, Alaska, with portrait of purchaser of first lot, Harry E. St. George, in upper right corner. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number...
Title taken from verso. Group of men, including J.L. Jenkins, standing with horse in front of tents at first camp in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "J.L. Jenkins - first one in picture." 1915. Photographer: Laurence. Postcard. Original...
Title from article, published in 1989, about the first officially sponsored derby, held in Juneau in 1947 Note: Dick Harris won the first Golden North Salmon Derby with a 38-pound, 4-ounce salmon
Title from image caption Full caption: "Gene Jacquot greeting Major S.H. Howe on arrival of first Greyhound bus at Jacquot's Post, Yukon, Canada." Black men in military dress stand next to the bus, possibly the first Greyhound over the...
Photo: Fairchild News Bureau. Verso: “From Spare Prop to Prop Jet—Alaska’s first licensed commercial pilot, Noel Wien, now vice president of Wien Alaska Airlines, flew this Hisso Standard in 1927 to make the first commercial flight to Nome,...