Title from indexer. Collection of photographs related to the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the running out of town of Soapy Smith's gang. Many of the photographs appear to be from Case & Draper. Caption reads: The tragedy...
Title taken from caption. "Smiths Ice Cream, Fairbanks." It is not clear what is happening here but it appears to involve ice cutting. According to an e-mail dated 13 January 2012 from Pat Fitzgerald, this may be the operation of...
Title taken from caption. " T. V. Smith's catch, Middleton Island, Alaska, 71 blue fox skins, value about $2,000.00. Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G3592. Reproduced from glass plate.
Title taken from front. Group of men, women, and children standing in front of a log building watching a boat land at Fort Yukon, Alaska. Also from front: "Publ. by Smith's Bookstore, Dawson, Y.T., Canada." From verso: "North of Artic [sic]...
Title taken from verso. View of Lt. Lowell H. Smith's airplane "Chicago" at Seward, Alaska, used in U.S. Army Air Service World Flight. Also from verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1924.
Cataloguer's note: No information was attached to this photograph. It is a series of photographs documenting the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the dispersal of Soapy Smith's gang. See UAF-1976-35-69, of the J. Bernard Moore...
Title taken from front. View of grave and grave marker for Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, Skagway, Alaska. Tombstone reads: "Jefferson R. Smith. Age 38. Died July 8, 1898." 1898. Original photograph size: 4 1/8" x 6 1/8".
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows transportation routes, gold regions and land district boundaries. Insets: Sitka, Glacier Bay and vicinity -- Western Portion of Aleutian Is. From Smith's The Century atlas of the world. ...
Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Continuation of Smith's Sound to the northward on reduced scale. Shows the arctic islands of North America, including the western tip of Greenland. Extensive place names along the coastlines. Outlines of land hand...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
The title taken from caption. "Ice Man Fairbanks Alaska A.J.P." A horse drawn wagon is pulled up in front of "Smith's Gun Store." This appears to be the wagon of Murray C. Smith Ice, located at 207 1st Avenue. Smith harvested and...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Christmas Tree Entertainment - Fairbanks, Alaska, Pubic Schools." Second caption reads: "Published by Smith Bookstore Dawson YT Canada." This is a photo of school children in dress clothing gathered...
Title taken from caption. View of summer cottage above bluff at Naknek, Alaska, with kayaks elevated on poles and stored near bottom of bluff in foreground. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
Cyanotype photograph of Ladd's Station on Cook Inlet in 1898. View of several log buildings. A ladder and two caches with salmon strung on posts below them, are visible on the right. A tall wooden building in front of a wooden fence is visible to...
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.
Title taken from front. Group photo of volunteer harbor guards holding rifles, Skagway, Alaska. Also from front: "The men who broke up "Soapy" Smith's gang at Skagway." Original photograph size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2".
View looking down street between businesses; showing are Pack Train Restaurant, Empire Theatre, Jeff Smith's Parlor (317), New York and Alaska Trading and Mining Co., and others Negative was damaged along bottom edge, but central part of image...
Admiralty-Alaska Mining Company buildings at Funter Bay. Mill is at the extreme right; ca. 1920. Black smith's forge and tools on dock in foreground. Photographer's number 1.
Title from image autograph, signed, "To Sourdough Sandy Smith 'Dean of Arctic Explorers' from his friend & fellow Alaskan, Earl Rossman, Nov. 10, 1925"