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...
Title taken from verso. Townspeople and visitors, including U.S. Navy personnel, gathered to watch a girls' foot race on the 4th of July, Seward, Alaska." Also from verso: "Seward, Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." July 4, 1920....
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "The wife of a Coast Guardsman left this car for higher ground after leaving her husband aboard the Coast Guard Cutter BITTERSWEET (WAGL-389) on Nyman's Peninsula. The car literally floated...
Shows commercial, Army, Navy, and other U. S. Government reservations. Shows aviation fields with list of locations. Shows locations for government offices, railroads, military cables, Native schools and reservations, hospitals, and reindeer...
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 from verso. Photograph of a building damaged during the bombing raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "All that remained of a 24-bed hospital at Unalaska after Japanese bombers struck June 4. Fortunately, all patients had been...
Title from verso. Photograph of a gunner watching for enemy aircraft duing the landing of men and equipment on an island in the Aleutian chain. Verso reads: "United States Army troops with Navy support have occupied the Andreanof...
View of Anchorage, Alaska, tentatively identified as 4th Avenue looking east, after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Building in the distance, near the center of the image, is the Mt. McKinley Apartments at 4th Ave. and D Street. Signs, from the far...
View of downtown Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes women and men walking on sidewalks, cars, trucks, stores and shops. Mt. McKinley Apartments appears in the background, left. Vacant, cleared lots appear on the...
View of damage to buildings along 4th (Fourth) Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Numerous stores and shops are visible. The tall building in the distance is the Mt. McKinley Apartments. Business signs on the right...
Captain Emmons, United States Navy, was the commanding officier of the U.S.S Ossipee and was present at the transfer ceremony of Alaska from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867.
[For complete ship's log from the voyage of the...
News clipping attached to verso: Smoke rising from fires started by the blasting of American forces marks the small island of Kinnaw, off Chicagof harbor, Attu, where a group of Japanese were making their last stand before the U. S. troops which...
Built in 1917, the Lighthouse Tender/Patrol Vessel CEDAR was acquired by the Navy in 1917 and returned to Lighthouse Service in July 1919; she was reclassified as USCGC CEDAR in 1939 and, during World War II, designated WAGL-207
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...