Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa prepare to launch a surf boat to investigate a distressed vessel. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "By radio we hear that two boats have been reported missing, and we are now searching for them....
Shows land district divisions, reported gold discoveries, coal & copper deposits, land offices, routes to interior, proposed railroads. Capital is at Sitka (thus map would be pre-1906). In color. Mounted on linen.
Official spelling for the creek is Sunaghun Creek This in formation and what directly follows is from Garry Njootli, Yukon Toponymist for the Yukon Government
"Kutcha-Kutchin name reported by I...
(3:41 min.) (01 of 24) 01 Early life & family history Raised in Baltimore, MD. Life was tough so he went to sea. Traveled the world. Went to West coast because heard might make more money. In 1934, started with Alaska Steamship Co. ...
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,...
Title from verso. Photograph of an oil rig and its reflection.
Verso reads: Oil rig of the Alaskamber Oil Company on Mirror Slough, Bering River Oil Fields, Alaska. The well is down 300 feet. Work is being carried on at present---July...
Title from accompanying notes. "26 March. Approaching Dawson Creek". View from the south of Dawson Creek, B.C. Wire fences line the road and in the distance there is a Motel sign and a Quonset hut.
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of a Buick service center after a fire in 1947. This occurred at the corner of 1st and Cushman. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition walking up the valley at the head of Takkala Lake. Native name (Dakavak Lake) reported in 1904 by G. C. Martin, USGS. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Local name reported by Lieutenant Commander Moser (1901, pl. 43), U.S. Navy (USN). Heads at Harlequin Lake, flows SW to Gulf of Alaska, 25 mi. SE of Yakutat Bay, Malaspina Coastal Plain....
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Tlingit Indian name first reported in 1849 by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkof, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), governor of Russian America (1852, map 7) as Reka Akve or Akve River and since...