This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy, director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, handing an award certificate to Richard L. Smith in September 1956. The award reads, "Civil Defender of the Month Award Presented to Richard L. Smith for the...
(4:02 min) (02 of 17) First job Bill Shoddy & George Gilbertson. Roomed at Francis Doyle's boarding house now National Bank of Alaska, in the Northward Building-$68 a month. Went to look at the University, if he enrolled at University room...
Title taken from caption. "9357 -- (13) In Spring of 1898 the ice disappeared from the upper lakes during the latter part of May, and on the 30th of that month the first grand section of the Yukon flotilla set sail from the headwaters of Lake...
Title from caption. Photograph with the caption: Mr. Wm. Munson, Proprietor of Munson's Roadhouse, mouth of Salchaket river, 40 miles from Fairbanks, feeding a four month old moose calf. (Mr Munson died in 1913.) There are several chickens...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition washing up after a month in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The trees have all been stripped of leaves, branches, and bark by the ash blowing in the wind. Photo taken at what was later...
Descriptive Narrative: Round medallion of gold-toned metal hanging from an orange and black striped ribbon.
Label: (c.1988) RUSSIAN-AMERICAN HERTIAGE MONTH The United States Congress designated October 1988 as Russian-American Heritage Month,...
Photograph with a press release included which reads: Case Of The Missing Watercolor--Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, right, presents to Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) the reproduction of a painting depicting the transfer of Russian...
Photo label reads: "The result the following spring of condition shown in picture #287. This is some of Thomas Riggs, Jr., engineering. Over $250,000 was wantonly thrown away. Spring of 1918 month of April."
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. troops advancing on Holtz Bay on Attu Island. "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [ Japanese ] garrison on...
08 Continue into Alaska (4:54 min.) (08 of 09)
Got some bad gas in Northway and had to drain the tanks. Finally made it into Nome, but it took two weeks. Joe Barber's plane was found a month later, and they found a trappers cabin with some...
Title from attached news release. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 Seattle, Washington 98134 November 21, 1963/for release Sunday, November...
Title taken from caption. "11503 -- (9) Those who have never witnessed the breaking up of the ice on the lakes and rivers in the interior of Alaska, will find it difficult to appreciate the enormous quantity of ice which moves with the opening...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Meiji University expedition tent just below summit (left here by the Japanese team on May 5, 1960 - same month as the John Day, Pete Schoening, Jim & Lou Whittaker accident)."