The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
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. Accompanying material reads, "U.S.R.C. Bear. [Photo by] A.W.G. Bear under sail 4-8-15." A photograph of the Bear while en route under sail. Compare to UAF-2004-93-9.
Title from accompanying material. Sailors on board U.S.C.R. Bear in 1915, holding a life preserver with the ship's name written on it and a small animal, possibly a goat, standing in the middle. This is an enlargement of a portion of...
George Rockwell Putnam worked for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He accompanied Admiral Peary to Greenland in 1896, traveled to the Pribilof Islands in 1897 as part of a group researching seal harvests, and served on Yukon Delta surveying...
Title taken from front. Alaska Railroad (Alaska Engineering Commission Railway) workers laying track along waterfront between Seward and Anchorage, Alaska. Sept. 11, 1918. Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Title taken from front. Men standing and sitting among piles of lumber near railroad car on Nome-Arctic Railroad along Nome River, Alaska. Photographer's number 833. n.d. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from front. Men standing alongside a Copper River and Northwestern Railway train stranded in deep snow, Cordova area, Alaska. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5".