Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
From supplemental material: A lake in front of the termimal moraine of Bering Glacier. Note the cliffs of ice surrounded by drift & ice bergs floating in the lake.
Men with rifles stand guard in front of The Manila Saloon Note: After Soapy Smith was shot, some of his gang members were rounded up and held in the Manila; seated on the far right is Si Tanner, who became the new marshal and was given a...
Note on verso in Russian written by Tikhon Vinokouroff Oct. 12, 1920: On
Kumakh- Surt
120 v[ersts] from Buluna (Siberia)
All [illeg.] "without ceremony"
-- without changing clothes
Sept. 15, 1926
African-American soldiers stand at attention on the Klondike Company's wharf in Dyea. Note from Karl Gurcke: They were (in Dyea) for a brief period of time (July 1899) before they were burned out by a forest fire and had to move to Skagway.
Identified: Langhofer (Project Chief); Caroline Jensen, Ronald Mayo, Bill Twenhofel [USGS], and Ralph Marsh Note from Dave Stern: This Bell-47B cabin model, AF (Armstrong-Flint) helicopter, owned and operated by Knute Flint, assisted in USGS...
Biographical note: U.S. District Judge (Alaska), 1900-1907. Alaska Delegate to U.S. House, 1909-1921, 1931-1933. Physical description: [160] p., bound.