View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Title from caption. Photograph of fur buyers and traders on the bank of the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are many thousands of dollars worth of fur spread on the beach. In the spring as soon...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 22 - Bear where it died - many sheep in herd-". Photograph shows the tundra-covered slope of a mountain with a rocky ridge. A dead bear can be seen lying in a gully in the foreground.
Title from caption. Photograph of the gold rush town of Ruby, Alaska showing many newly constructed buildings and many canvas tents. The sternwheeler Sarah with three barges is just off shore.
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from caption. "11506 -- (35) Some of the sites selected by the prospectors who joined the stampede to the Yukon in 1898 were both picturesque and romantic.
In the view here represented, a cosy spot has been chosen under the...
Title taken from caption. "A view taken at Mile 14 on the Alaska Northern Railroad. The Alaska Northern Railroad, extending from Seward to Kern Creek, a distance of 71 miles, was purchased by the Government in August, 1915. No repairs had...
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Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ AAC -- Mass Destruction -- Many small boats from the Seward dock area paid an unexpected visit to the Alaskan Railroad yards during the Good Friday earthquake. Here the area is shown littered with the remains...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- 'X' Marks the spot -- Anchorage's Mt. McKinley building [later known as the McKay Building] shows the common 'X' shaped cracks that marred many Alaskan buildings,...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Junior Red Cross boxes brought smiles of delight to the faces of Aleut children in the Red Cross shelter at Camp Denali while plans were being made for their return to Old Harbor. Gift...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
Aerial view of Kodiak, Alaska, following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 3/27/64. Many buildings are destroyed, and at least three boats are thrown ashore. A business sign on the...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Destroyed home in the Turnagain area Anch. [Anchorage] Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/27/64". Additional notes read: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Many of the homes in the...
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption: The soldier before the door in picture one was waiting for someone to unlock the door. Then the hose was taken inside the front door. It took many hands to keep feeding the line inside. Notes and...
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
Many men fill the room, with two women at far back; gambling game at left; bar and liquor at right Note accompanying photograph: "Jack London frequently visited Juneau's first dance and gambling hall, the Louvre bar, background for many of his...