These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man wearing heavy gloves carrying a framed backpack. He is also smoking a pipe. Caption from album reads: "Mr. O.W. Stenbuck, former mail carrier, is a Swede. He is known as "Five Dollar Bill," and claims...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Title from caption in album. A steam engine or donkey engine, covered with canvas or other fabric, powers a pile driver in place on a bridge as construction advances across the river. A man on a tractor works at the river's edge.
Title from accompanying materials. Ralph Miller and Mr. Powers go ptarmigan hunting and find success on the tundra. The men's identity is listed in accompanying materials.
Title from accompanying materials. Mr. Ralph Miller and his partner identified in accompanying materials only as Mr. Powers find success in ptarmigan hunting on the tundra.
Title from verso. "Katherine Powers, nurse Kanakanak - 5 years in Alaska. Star Airways." Three women and a child are standing in front of an Aircraft with a large white star logo. All are dressed in heavy fur coats. The woman on the left is...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Katherine Powers, dressed in a nurses uniform, stands beside an Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation truck. Truck has "ARRC 30" on the door. A Matanuska Valley Colony building site is visible in the background. Original photograph size: 7 x 5...
Title taken from verso. On item: Mary Powers, a Kobuk Eskimo, taken in front of Post Office (3rd from left) Anchorage. Alaska Native woman stands with a group of young women in downtown Anchorage. Woman later identified (Dec. 2011) as Mary Brown. ...
Title taken from verso. On item: Mary Powers, a Kobuk Eskimo, taken in front of Post Office, Anchorage. Woman later identified (Dec. 2011) as Mary Brown. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
Full title: Sivuqam ungipaghaatangi II = St. Lawrence Island legends II / developed by the staff of the National Bilingual Materials Development Center, Rural Education Affairs, University of Alaska ; from stories written by Grace Slwooko ;...
Title taken from image. Verso:First row (l. to r.): Henry Roden, John Devine, Jesta Timmerman, Randi Molver, Gladys Brewis, Marian Foster, Bess Millard, Unknown, and J.H. Patterson.
Second row (l. to r.): Victor Rivers, O.D. Cochran,...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...