Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
Title taken from caption. Additional notes read: "[Antelope] of [San] Francisco on shore. 75-738, 5x8." A view of the Aberdeen (Salmon) Packing Co. and several sail boats on shore. Cyanotype (blue) print.
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing snow off a roof. Verso reads: "Soldiers at a U.S. Army base in the Aleutians do a little old-fashioned snow shoveling to clear important points after a williwaw (howling blizzard to you)...
Relief shown by hachures. Shows gold-bearing locations. Insets: Copper River of Alaska -- Klondike River of N.W. Territory. Includes table of distances and mail routes. Printed for S.N. Wood & Co., Columbian Woolen Mills, 718-722 Market St. San...
Title taken from front. View of Alaskan steamship stuck in ice jam on Bering Sea, with people on deck. From verso: "Made in America by Edw. H. Mitchell at San Francisco." Publisher's number 2011. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Postcard...
Title from indexer. Photograph of woman and child holding hands. The child is wearing a life jacket. Verso reads: "Victims of war are these Aleuts who were evacuated from their homes during the installation of Alaskan defenses. Natives...
Title from verso. Photograph of the site of a former Aleut village. Verso reads: "Expanse of water and grass was all that met first Japanese who occupied Kiska Island in the Aleutians. This is the site of a former Aleut village. W...
Title from verso. Mt. Veniaminof blows black smoke. The eruption is photographed from an airplane. Verso reads: "Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska -- Out on the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula Mt. Veniamanof, oldest known volcano and estimated to have...
Title from verso. Photograph of an airman carrying gear suspended from a pole across his shoulders. Verso reads: "The tasks of provisioning themselves and caring for their equipment sometimes proves as hard as smacking the Japs in fog...
Title from verso. Photograph of a building damaged during the bombing raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "All that remained of a 24-bed hospital at Unalaska after Japanese bombers struck June 4. Fortunately, all patients had been...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier taking cover behind rocks. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay. Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of...
Title from verso. Photograph of a gunner watching for enemy aircraft duing the landing of men and equipment on an island in the Aleutian chain. Verso reads: "United States Army troops with Navy support have occupied the Andreanof...
Title from verso. Military aircraft on Amchitka Island. Verso reads "Occupation of Amchitka Island in the Aleutians provides U.S. airmen with a base only 63 miles from Jap-held [ Japanese held ] Kiska and within 1700 miles of Tokyo. ...
Title from verso. Retouched photograph of landing barges arriving on a beach on Kiska Island. Alterations of photograph appear to have been made to add contrast.
Title from verso. Photograph of bombing damage from a U.S. air raid on Japanese forces on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "This photo, released in Washington today, shows columns of smoke rising from Japanese installations on Kiska Island in...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [...
Title and caption taken from verso of UAF-1970-11-51, from which this image differs only slightly. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu...
Title from notes on verso. Other notes on verso read: "Eugenia Ohls, Bd. Member, Alaska Bd. Nsg, Bernadine Match, Board Member, AaNA, Elva Scott, Editor - Alaska Nurse, Peg Mc Coll, Director - Kotzebue Hosp, Claudia Cass, Pres. Dist #1, Helen...
Portrait of Andrew Kashevaroff, later Russian Orthodox priest, taken in San Francisco, California. From front: "Fred's [Fred Wildon Fickett's] assistant in Weather Bureau - then U.S. Signal Corps. Andrew Kashavaroff [sic]. Sitka, Alaska." From...