Title from verso. Photograph of sailors on the beach around a stove, cooking a meal. A ski is upright in the left foreground. Verso reads with gaps in narrative due to missing text (gaps and indexer inferences in brackets). "A warm fire...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
Relief shown by hachures. Panel title. "For the purpose of giving the general public reliable information regarding Alaska and a better understanding of Alaskan conditions." Text on verso lists basic information on Alaska's economy, minerals,...
The Harry Heins material consists of a photograph album documenting the building of the Canol Highway. The Canol (short for Canadian Oil) Road was a project that built a pipeline and a road from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada, to...
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. "9192 -- Gold miners and pickers on Dyea trail, Alaska.
"This view is made in the heart of Sheep Camp, where the miners, en route to the gold fields, halt for the purpose of dividing their freight into small...
Title taken from caption. "11507 -- (5) The stories we read of life in the Arctic usually persuade us to believe that only the most robust persons should venture into those latitudes, and then only when well provided with an ample wardrobe of...
Title taken from caption. "9715 -- (29) The majority of those who crossed the pass stopped either at Lake Linderman or Lake Bennett for the purpose of constructing boats for the journey down the Yukon. The advance of the crusaders rendered it...
Title taken from caption. " Building the annual Bonfire in September 1928 at the Alaska University. Cataloguer's note: The Annual (freshman) bonfire was evidently an elaborate and momentous affair; as seen by the amount of work that went into...
Title taken from caption. "College Bonfire Fall 1928 College, Alaska. Bunnell Collection." Cataloguer's note: In this picture the enthusiastic (construction) crew can be seen high above ground and in the process of building the...
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying at Naknek, Alaska. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon. Note the chopping knife used for the purpose." Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title taken from caption. View of a man, a woman, and three children at Naknek, Alaska. The woman is dressing salmon for drying and there is a pile of prepared salmon in the center of the photo. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon....
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying at Naknek, Alaska. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon. Note the chopping knife used for the purpose." Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of a man walking along a beach on Kodiak Island. There is a building in the background. From May's journal, dated May 28th: "For the purpose of the identification of artifacts, the site is divided into...