Photograph of Alaska Pioneers at the Sitka Pioneers Home. The men are wearing convention ribbons. Identification may be wrong and may be the Valdez Pioneers Home.
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Nine men pose with Seattle No. 2 banner of Yukon Order of Pioneers; George Carmack sits left, next to banner; George Snow sits on immediate right of banner
Title taken from front. Group photo of women, children, and a man standing against a building in the Klondike, Yukon Territory. From verso: "Squaw man and famley [sic]." Publisher's number 57. Publisher: B.N. Co. Postcard. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from front. Monument to the pack animals that died during the Gold Rush of 1897-1898, located at Inspiration Point, along the White Pass and Yukon Railroad route, Southeast Alaska. Monument reads: "The dead are speaking. In memory of us...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Labor Union Building in Anchorage, Alaska, located on 7th and 8th Avenues between G and H Streets. Building burned Sunday, Oct. 15, 1916. Signs read: "1916. Alaska Labor Union. Socialists and Pioneers." 1916....
Lambert, Theodore R. (artist). Size: 15.5 x 19.5 in. Medium: Oil on canvas Yup'ik Eskimo grave markers on the bank of the Kuskokwim River include items of the deceased, including a rifle. Grenold Collins was a long time friend of the artist and,...
(4:38 min) (06 of 17) Flying history, quit commercial flying 1960 quit flying so he could spend summers furthering education. Sam White gave advice, Harold Gilliam, Wien's, the real bush pilots or first wave of air pioneers. More...