Title from indexer. Photograph shows an airplane parked outside of a village or town. There are people standing nearby it. The tail of the airplane appears to say "Swallow".
Title from verso. Photograph of Japanese transport ships, one of which is burning and smoking. Verso reads: "Black smoke hangs over Kiska Harbor as it rises from a Jap [ Japanese ] transport hit by bombs from U.S. planes during a raid...
Title from caption: "Carving ice in the Yukon River at Ruby, Alaska. 5 ft. 8 in. thick, Mar. 1, '13." Postcard is postmarked Ruby, Alaska on Mar. 29, 1913 and is addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. R.R. no. 7 Hopkin [Hopkins] Co....
Color postcard postmarked from Cordova on Apr. 19, 1910 and addressed to Miss Tomie Clemons, Devine, Texas, Medina Co. [County]. Written on verso, "4-17-10. Dear little sister Tomie, have just received your long and...
Title from caption. Photograph shows some people in parkas standing around an airplane. The tail of the airplane reads " A. A. T. Inc. C193" A.A.T is Anchorage Air transport, the side appears to say "Anchorage". Original size is 5.25 in. x...
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Man ran out onto ice and was waving arms Red thought something was wrong so landed and man just wanted to say hello. On a trip to Huslia with a fur buyer.
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 taken from caption. "9284 -- (21) The scene represented in this view impresses us with the fact that the army of argonauts over the Dyea Trail not only proceeded on foot but also personally transported their camp equipage and supplies. A...
Title taken from attached note: "Location: In front of gymnasium door of old gymn. Date: May 19, 1952. Left to right: President Chas. E. Bunnell; Board of Regent member w. T. Stewart; spelling? Hon. Doctorate recipient.
Title taken from caption. "Roy Vincent and [?] decorating tree (articfical, perhaps needless to say) in parish hall; Donald Okollik wrapping presents."
Title taken from caption. View of Robert F. Griggs trying to cross the Katmai River. In his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Griggs states "After working our way to within a hundred yards of the trees in the distance we had to turn back"....
View looking down Main Street, Valdez. Signs on the building on the corner say "The Pinzon" and "Beer". Two men are standing on the sidewalk outside the Pinzon; a woman pedestrian is walking down the street. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Title taken from caption. View of log supports being put together by two men using a horse drawn wagon to haul the logs into place at the U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station, Kodiak Island, Alaska. The racks are to hold the green oats as they dry....
Title taken from caption. View of the Bunker Building in Whittier, Alaska. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182. For Lease -- The Army Port of...
Tourists look at the Model T Ford railroad car and open-air cars, their "express", at the old train depot in McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is in the foreground. From caption: "Our passengers are arriving at the depot to board the "express" which...
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Joe Antic (left) and technical sergeant "Mill" Plum (right) pose for a photograph beside a piece of machinery, possibly a compressor. Two signs on the machine say "Gardner Denver". Joe Antic is wearing a helmet. Another serviceman can be seen...
Title taken from album caption. View of teams standing by their sleds harnessed to reindeer. The three men at the front of the line wear sashes that say Noorvik.
This color slide depicts a helicopter landing at the U.S. Army Arctic Test Board (now Fort Greely) in 1962. In the foreground, there are four parked cars, and two men lean on one that has the words "Military Police" painted on it. Another man in...