Caption reads: "C. Hills [Hill's] team starting in 4th annual all Alaska sweepstakes winning 2d money. 81 hours, 400 mls. n.p. [2?]/11/11 Nome Alaska" Photos UAF-1985-122-46 to UAF-1985-122-48 may be of the same...
Title from caption. Postcard of the start of the Great Fire in Fairbanks, Alaska, May 22, 1906. Visible in the photo are several of the Northern Commercial Companies buildings and Sargent & Pinska which may have been a men's store. A stern...
Pilot chart of the Yukon River, showing wood storage sites and the amount of wood, cabins, villages, gravesites, sawmills, mines and creeks along the riverbanks. Sand bars and various features of the river are drawn in, and a dashed line indicates...
Title from cataloger's notes. Also from notes: "Pictured left to right - Al Jones - Brother-in-law to Lee Loomis, Clarence C. Loomis - son of Lee Loomis, Ray H. Loomis - son of Lee Loomis, Lee B. Loomis, Lucile Loomis - daughter of Lee Loomis,...
Title from verso. Image shows a white man dressed in Native fur clothing standing by the door to a cabin. Individual may be Calvin Townsend who worked as a game warden for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries starting in 1913. Calvin Townsend...
133 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Washburn Collection, 1937". Film shows a man starting the propeller on a Fairchild 51 and then two men digging it out of the snow.
Title from cataloger. Photograph of passengers on the Cottage City (Ship) travelling to Alaska. They are standing in front of a lifeboat. Narrative in the album states: "The view below is of a small part of the passengers on the 'Cottage City',...
Title from caption. Photograph of a man at a sewing machine outside a log building. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is John Dummy doing some repairing before starting on a hunting trip. His wife, the nice 'Old Eliza,' and he did not...
Title from image. Photograph of the start of a marathon in Fairbanks, Alaska. Writing at bottom reads: The starting of the great marathon race at Fairbanks, Alaska July 4th 1909. Held under the management of Capewell & Finn. Time made by...
Title from caption in album: "Mar 26 - Karstens + dogs starting for Tanana with sled load of trophies - N.E. from outside of cabin woods". Photograph shows a dogsled heavily loaded, dogs are hitched up to the sled and Harry Karstens stands...
Title from photograph UAF-2009-123-659, current caption in album is: "Mar 26 - Same just [ilegible] from Mts. - Outside range". Photograph shows dogs hitched up to a heavily loaded sled.
View of First Avenue Ruby, Alaska 1912. Businesses that are identifiable starting on the left and going down the street: The Fraction which appears to be a dry goods store or a liquor store, The Cascade Laundry and Baths; Bloom's?, a lunch...
Title from verso. Map showing how military forces took Attu Island during the Aleutian Campaign. Verso reads: "Starting with a landing by scouts on Blind Cove on the north side of Holtz Bay on Attu Island, May 11, American forces have...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows
a few men standing next to a Stinson Detroiter, one of the men appears to be starting the engine. Original size is: 6.75 in. x 5.75 in.
(3:52 min) (23 of 27) Network of roads
Starting with Dept. of Interior, a development plan was required. One plan was for building along the Yukon River, perhaps from Steese to Eagle. Also there was a plan to build a series of roads to...
44 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows a Ford Tri-motor airplane. Men crank start the plane, which then taxis down the snowy runway and takes off.
Title taken from caption. "11502 -- (12) The interior of Alaska is generally well-timbered, and there are large tracts of good grazing country. In these conditions we are not surprised to find considerable large game. There are several...
Title taken from caption. "9271 -- (30) In this view we have an excellent representation of a Lapland reindeer train ready to start on its journey over the limitless fields of snow. We notice the broad hoofs of the deer, wisely provided by...