Title from verso. Men and equipment landing on Amchitka Island. Verso reads: "Americans occupy island 63 miles from Kiska Amchitka Island, Aleutians--In the cold waters of Constantine Harbor, Yank landing boats head toward Amchitka...
Title from indexer. Collection of photographs related to the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the running out of town of Soapy Smith's gang. Many of the photographs appear to be from Case & Draper. Caption reads: The tragedy...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a rocky bluff and trees along a river. Caption from album reads: "Three miles above Koyukuk is the large bluff known as Windy Rock. No matter how calm the river or how quiet the day in other places there is...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. "The interesting discoveries made by British and American ships since the first publication of this chart in 1784, together with the hydrographical materials, lately procured from...
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. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title from attached caption. Photograph of a soldier and a civilian helping a refugee child off a bus following the 1964 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Full caption reads: " Evacuees Arrive In Fairbanks. Citizens of Valdez arrived by bus...
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 caption. "Amundsen on arrival N______" (possibly Nome). The last word of the caption is illegible due to a blemish on the photograph. Verso reads: "Historical photograph Collection in the Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks."...
Title by indexer. Three people either ascending or descending a steep rock face above a canoe pulled up riverside. A large rock outcropping visible in the foreground. The water appears to be frozen in places next to the land.
Title by indexer. Two men standing in front of an open tent in the woods. Metal pots and basins sit in various places. A pile of split fire wood sits in front of them.
Photo caption reads "Anchorage ski crowd unloading from bus at Fishhook." View of a group of men and women getting off the bus for a ski trip near the Fishhook Inn. One man is wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a guitar. There is an outhouse in the...
Title taken from caption. View of control tower and building at Fairbanks International Airport in Fairbanks, Alaska. Sign on building reads: "Fairbanks International Airport." Signs on parking places read: "1 h[ou]r parking." 1953-1959. Photograph...
Title taken from verso. View of farm workers working in hay field on Warner farm in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, with buildings in background. Also from verso: "Matanuska Valley. 1935." Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
Title taken from caption. View of the coastline of Bering Island from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. From May's journal, dated July 13th: "It is peculiar that these islands appear to be different from the Aleutians. They are low and...