The DC Brownell home located at First and Jefferson in Seward, Alaska. A bench stands next to a shed, and a garden is in foreground. ca. 1905-1920. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
Title taken from front of photograph. Street view of three houses along Second Avenue in Seward, Alaska. The first house on the left has construction supplies lying in the front yard. 1906? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original photograph size: 4...
Cars are parked along the business district of Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska. View is facing north. Some businesses that can be identified are Brown & Hawkins, Grayce's Cafe, and a liquor store. First two vehicles in picture are taxicabs from the...
Mrs. J. A. Baughman (doctor's wife) and Mrs. E. E. Hale (bankers wife) stand on wooden sidewalk with Alaska Central Railroad building and Seward's first schoolhouse in the background. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from front. Dog team and group on sled on the trail somewhere between Nome and Seward in Alaska. Martin Lanning is standing on back of sled. 1909. Photographer: S. Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
[Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett meets with America[n] Legion Boys Nation representatives from Alaska during the Boys Nation convention in Washington D.C. William Brewington, Jr., 16, from Anchorage, 3rd from left, and Carlton R. Smith, 17, of...
Shows tracks of various voyages, including Bering and Chirikov. Relief shown by hachures. "Republished by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty." Considered to be the first English edition of a map published by the Royal Academy of Sciences...
Latin. Shows northern latitudes not previously recorded on a printed map. Attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus. From the first woodblock atlas of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography. Cut by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, as evidenced by...
Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Alternate title on verso within ornamental border. Based on discoveries by Verrazano. First map to show the two American continents as being attached, also names the Pacific Ocean and depicts Japan. Predominant...
Caption reads: "Canadian-Arctic Expedition. Vilhjalmar [Vihjalmur] Stefansson in command. Outfitting at Darling and Dean, Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men and their dogs and dogteams gather in front of the store...
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
Title taken from verso. Photograph with the following information on the reverse side of the photograph: "Margaret Thomas (now Mrs. O. J. Murie), second year graduate, and first girl to have the honor of an Alaska degree." Mardy Murie is seen...
Caption: For twenty-four hours previous to launching the first whale boat, all members of the whaling crews fast, dance and sing of former deeds of bravery at sea.
Photograph of Arthur Nagozruk Jr. Charles E. Bunnell, the University President. Written on the back of the photograph is the following: "Arthur Nagozruk Jr., first full blood Eskimo to be graduated from the University of Alaska, and President...
Verso: Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) meets with two members of the "Spenard Lions," one of the two Anchorage hockey teams in Washington, D.C. this week for the Capitol Invitational Hockey Tournament, just before winning their first game. The...
The first beams and bracings of a truss bridge, still supported by pilings, on a frozen river. Two people are visible at right, and a third, farther down, stands near a pile driver.