ASL-MS004-2-3b-5
Item 5
(acc. # 10213)
Physical description: [68]p.
Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975
The following are stitched together as one booklet.
Gold pocket watch with filigree decoration. View: recto. One side has a stag engraved in the center; the other side appears to be a monogram. The letter 'M' is intertwined with the letter 'S' and there appears to be another letter as well.
Gold pocket watch with filigree decoration. View: verso. One side has a stag engraved in the center; the other side appears to be a monogram. The letter 'M' is intertwined with the letter 'S' and there appears to be another letter as well.
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title from caption. Image is a postcard. Image shows a bridge over some rushing rapids on a river. Caption reads "857 Whirlpool Rapids". The appears to be the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge on the Niagara River. Verso reads "11am. July 22. Dear...
Title from caption: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910: Mt. McKinley, Alaska 20,300 ft. from Explorers Peak, 9,000 ft." Postcard postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Aug. 22, 1913 and addressed to Tomie Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. ...
Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska in July 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Tex. [Texas]. Written on the verso, "July 17, 09. Dear folks at home, I supose [suppose] you are feeling mean at me for...
"U.S. Senator from Alaska Bob Bartlett and Governor Wm. Egan pose together on the occasion of Bartlett's formal presentation to the State of the first 49-star flag to fly above the west front of the U. S. Capitol. The Senator holds a certification...
A letter on the back of photograph reads "Have not seen Doctor B for quite a while. Mr.& Mrs. (illegible) and two little lasses come up to see us quite often. He is the science teacher here he came from Oregon City. Seems like our own people....
Title taken from caption. The following letter was written on the back of this photograph. "My dear Louise! Many thanks for your letter. Here is the way the college looked just before the snow came. The west wing, power plant and dormitory were...
Complete title: The great probability of a North West Passage : deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean....
One letter, undated but assumed to be from November 1918, tells about the flu epidemic, the sinking of the Princess Sophia, and the celebration of the Armistice which ended World War II.