The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska 10th and East G - - privies and shacks predominate in this scene. Poor housing is one of the major factors in the high degree of illness of children under 10 years of age in this portion of...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
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TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD QUOTE THE LAY OF FINAL VICTORY HAS AT LAST ARRIVED X JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED X HER FLEET WHICH ONCE...
From verso: "Military and civilian personnel of U. S. Engineers in Alaska at Headquarters of Alaska Defense Command, Fort Richardson, following award of the Distinguished Service medal to Col. B. B. Talley, Officer in Charge Alaska Construction,...
Title taken from caption. View of dogsled race contestants during Fur Rendezvous celebration in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Headquarters Alaskan Air Command, APO Seattle 98742, Office of Information Telephone 272-6111 or Elmendorf AFB...
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...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Larson’s Bay: Dr. H. and the major seen thru bug nets, uncovering a fireplace, June 9." View of Ales Hrdlicka and Alan May cleaning out a fireplace. Both men are wearing head netting, and May is smoking a...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Left to right: Osborne, the customs inspector, and major; aboard U.S.C.G. “Alert”." View of "Ozzie" Osborne, Mr. Sides, the customs inspector, and Alan May on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat...
"Presentation of the Col. Raul Esteves Cup to Camp "El Caribe" of the P. R. R. A.--the presentation is being made by Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions and Administratory of the P. R. R. A. to...
Verso-Viewing Yukon Damsite--Among a group of engineers, specialists and consultants to visit Rampart Canyon damsite on May 28 were Dr. William R. Wood, left, President of the University of Alaska, and Member of the Rampart Advisory Board; and...
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...
(5:15 min.) (05 of 27) Alaska Road Commission
Alaska Road Commission -- access in Alaska authority of U. S. Army. Started with authority to create WAMCATS. Three Army officers were to maintain building roads and trails, almost no...
Title from indexer. A man looks on from the deck of the Cape Victory, an Alaska Steamship Company vessel, which was regularly contracted to do transport work for canneries. Pier 42, pictured here, was a major transportation hub for travel to...
Title taken from caption. "Revenue Cutter ' Bear' arriving at Valdez, Alaska Sept. 26, 1908 with Japanese seal poacher." Cataloguer's note: From 1874 - 1913 the Revenue Cutter Service operated under the authority of the United States...
Title from verso. "Left to right: Kay Kennedy; U.S. Marshal Pat O'Connor (grinning); Major Dale Gaffney, U. S. Army pilot; and Major E. M. George. Taken in Fairbanks airport just before the two U.S. Army planes took off for the States. 1936...
Title from verso. "Russian officers in the briefing room, Ladd Field, Alaska. (Seated left to right: Major Yatzkevich, Major Lebedev, Sr. Lt. Vorobiev, Major Ivanov, and Major Novikov). Photo by US Army Air Forces." A type of airplane flight...