Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
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 donor's caption. "1905, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]". At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir...
Title taken from donor's caption. A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying. "The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan...
Title taken from donor's caption. "This head was brought home and mounted. It hung on the wall in the living room of the Ahmeek home from 1920 except for a few summers at Keweenaw Golf Club. These sheep are now (November 1950) almost extinct...
Title taken from donor's caption. Full Title: "1905, in a crevasse in Lakina Glacier, Professor A. E. Seaman at right; Claude (packer) at left." It had been arranged before I left Houghton (MI), that Professor Seamon (a geologist) was to...
Title taken from donor's caption. View of a Valdez commercial street with some people walking in the distance; a mountain is in the background. "Valdez was a typical, busy Alaskan town of the early pioneer days -- wide open of course. Most...
Title taken from donor's caption. "We built a boat here to run the river to the coast. Left to right, Tony Diamond, now (1950) U. S. Federal Judge in Anchorage, Alaska, George Potter, 'Bill' and Julia Potter."
Title taken from donor's caption. "George Potter and Bighorns at our camp on McCarthy Creek. Occasionally the monotony was relieved by a sheep hunting expedition but sheep were few in number and wary. Once we shot a big, shaggy mountain goat...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
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 from finding aid. Photograph shows a dirt road with houses along it and a road leading up a hill to a new neighborhood. Mt. Roberts can be seen in the background. Caption from finding aid reads "1951 Juneau new addition". Location is...
Title from accompanying note. "Old brewery in background [Fairbanks]." A row of what appear to be mobile homes are seen across the water. It is unclear whether this body of water is a river or a submerged street.
Three judges standing near table of flower arrangements at 19th Annual Flower Show sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Two groups of...
Three judges stand near table of flower arrangements during 19th Annual Flower Show sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at Fourth Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Two groups...