Title taken from front. View of the Methodist Church in Seward, Alaska, looking southwest with Mount Marathon and Iron Mountain in the background. Also from front: "1100. McMullen." Photographer's number 1100. 1949-1959? Photographer: Sylvia...
Title taken from verso. Full title on verso reads, "First silo in Fairbanks district perhaps in all Alaska, built by J. F. Hielscher, fall of 1905. Lumber cut and matched by Noyes' Mill = Tanana Lumber Co. Iron bands by Barrack Blacksmith...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Simon Pitka standing in front of his summer tent at Stevens Village. Visible in the photo are Simon, his tent, a young man, two children and a dog. A stove is visible just inside the tent, with fuel wood right...
Title from caption. Old Eliza at her fish camp with a tent behind her and a stove in front of her. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is Old Eliza in her summer fishing camp near the Yukon. This sheet iron stove is very extensively...
Title from caption. Photograph of a mining operation that used steam to thaw the permafrost. Visible in the photo are the boiler, wood pile, cabin and what may be another cabin. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Winter view of a one man...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a rocky bluff and trees along a river. Caption from album reads: "Three miles above Koyukuk is the large bluff known as Windy Rock. No matter how calm the river or how quiet the day in other places there is...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
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 caption. " Johnson and Allen and Darling entries, fifth All Alaskan sweepstakes, Siberian vs. American dogs, Nome Alaska 1912 . Lomen Bros, Nome # 863 ".
Cataloguer's note: John Johnson, also known as "The Iron Man"...
Scenes from the Alaska State Museum at Juneau. Items include Southeast Alaska artwork, a petroglyph from Wrangell, Eskimo stone anchors, an early Russian cannon from Kodiak, a copy of "Signing the Alaska Treaty", a hand-sewn 36-star American flag...
Title from album caption. The sign on the building at right reads 'Ketchikan Iron Works Dock 31'. On another building: '[Ketchikan Machine Wks] Covered Marine Railway Capacity [500 Tons]'.
Title from accompanying materials. This photograph shows the interior of a early 20th-century home. Prominent items include electric lamps, a piano, and a cast iron radiator. There are several small ornate rugs on the hardwood floors and two...
A group of tourist walk along railroad tracks in Kennecott Copper Mine area in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "From 1913 to 1938 these tracks were used to haul copper ore from Kennecott [sic] down to McCarthy and then on to Cordova, where it was...
Tourists look at the aerial tramway used to transport copper ore between the mines and the mining operation at Kennecott Copper Mine in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "This tramway, located at the back of the mine building, extends way back into...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...