Title from cataloger. Photograph is of a tent and hides being smoked as a part of their tanning. Visible in the photo is a woman behind the left side of the smoking hides, a girl in the tent and a couple of sleeping dogs. Narrative in the album...
Title from caption. Photograph of fish drying on a fish rack inside a shed. Narrative in the photo album reads: "The salmon for food, after being partially dried in the sun, is placed under a tent or in a shed made from bark peeled from spruce...
(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
39 second, black & white/silent film clip. The clip is a slow pan across the many buildings that comprise the Kennicott Mine Complex. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
Slow pan of the Juneau waterfront as seen from the Gastineau Channel followed by street scenes that show the Red Dog Saloon and the Gastineau Hotel 51 second film clip, color/silent.
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905 Steamer Santa Ana". "Our first trip to Alaska - 16 days to Valdez. The boat was small, only 700 tons, and it was slow. We were to land at Valdez, a thousand miles north and seven hundred miles west,...
Title from caption. Verso reads: "Bob Reeve checking [engine] 1937. Photo by Russ Dow." The writing on the side of the house reads: "Reeve Airways. The best. And Nuts? Always use Reeve Airways. Slow, unreliable, unfair and crooked. Scared &...
Title taken from caption. View of traffic sign in Emmonak, Alaska, with buildings in background. Sign reads: "Drive slow." Also from caption: "Emmonak, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
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.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 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.