Fur trader Ed Shepherd (left background) and Nathan Noongwook (right background) stand next to sled holding Adventurers Club of New York flag, as last U.S. mail run via dogsled in Alaska prepares to go from Gambell to Savoonga on Saint Lawrence...
(5:24 min.) (05 of 24) 05 Move West Moved west at about age 19 or 20. Started with the Alaska Steamship Co. as a summer hire -- back then the company wanted you to start at the bottom and work your way up. Started as utility man doing...
View of First Street, Cordova, Alaska. Businesses shown include Spokane Bar, Montana Bar, Keystone Laundry, Cordova House, Stockholm, Wellington, First and Last, and Frame's Cafe. May 1910. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
Title taken from verso. Man with camera on tripod photographing last U.S. mail run via dogsled in Alaska at Gambell, heading from Gambell to Savoonga on Saint Lawrence, Island. Kayaks up on racks stand in background. From front: "Off to Savoonga...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption in album: "Sept 24 - Last small ram killed on N. E. slopes of Divide Mt. looking across East branch at South end of Bear Draw mts - or Forks Mountain". Photograph shows the shadow of a hill on a river bed surrounded by...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Aug 23- Divide across from camp at last branch of Toklat". Photograph shows a landscape of tundra with mountains in the distance.
Title from caption in album: "May 18 - Mt. just north of last showing where I killed two rams Feb. 29". Photograph shows snowy mountains in the distance.
Title from verso. Photograph of smoke rising from a small island (Kinnaw(sic)) after a bombing run. Verso reads: "Smoke rises from fires started by American air and ground forces on the small island of Kinnaw (sic) , off Chicagof...
Postcard is postmarked from Gulkana, Alaska on May 30, 1910 and addressed to Mr L.J. Clemons, Devine, Texas, Medina Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Rapids Road house on the trail. Valdez 207 miles Fairbanks 139. May...