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 caption. "$750.000.00 in Gold dust ready for transportation over the Fairbanks-Valdez trail." Business signs visible include "Telephone Office", "Fairbanks Banking", and "The First [National Bank]".
Title taken from caption. "Tanana Valley R. R. Trains at Fox, Alaska. Hand colored." Business signs visible include: "Chesley & Ryan General Merchandise, Miners Supplies - Steam Fitting" and "P.C.S.Co Market".
Title from accompanying note. ["Fairbanks flood, 1967; photo has negative."] A view of the Cushman Street bridge and Immaculate Conception Church with its steeple on the far left corner. During the flood, the river was 6.5 feet higher than the...
Title from accompanying note. ["Fairbanks flood, 1967; photo has negative."] A view of the Cushman Street bridge and Immaculate Conception Church with its steeple on the far left corner. During the flood, the river was 6.5 feet higher than the...
Title from accompanying note. ["Fairbanks flood, 1967; photo has negative."] A view of Cushman Street and Samson Hardware store from across the Chena River. The river was 6.5 feet higher than the point at which flooding begins....
Title taken from caption. View of the beach in front of the village of Kotzebue, Alaska. Based on other photographs in the series the meat drying on the racks is from a successful beluga whale hunt. Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type:...
View of 5th Avenue between D and E Streets looking west, downtown Anchorage, Alaska, in the aftermath of the 1964 earthquake. Businesses shown include Preservative Paints, Kimball's Store, Book Cache, Nerland's, National Bank of Alaska, Sears,...
Title taken from verso. View of Nike missile being fired from Site Summit satellite missile launching pad above Anchorage, Alaska, by Battery B, 4th Missile Battalion, 43rd Artillery, U.S. Army, out of Fort Richardson. Photograph number...
vi, [2], 293 p. front, XVIII pl., 2 fold. maps. 28 cm.
"This work is plagiarized from the prof. Sir C. L. M. von Giesecke's Lectures and from Generla Vallancey."--Allibone, Crit. dictionary of English literature, v. 2.
Shows land and sea routes from Seattle to Alaskan destinations. Relief shown pictorially. Inset: [Routes from Prince William Sound to Fairbanks, Alaska]. Illustrated with cartoons and captioned with humorous notes. Map is 52 x 72 cm.