The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Flood waters from the Chena River deposited these chunks of ice in a street of Fairbanks. Log cabins and a two story wooden building are visible in the background. The finding aid and other related photographs indicate this...
Title from verso: The hospital from across the lagoon. Note on verso also says, "Ft. Davis?" View of a large white building along the shore of a lagoon. The building, identified as a hospital, has a staircase leading to a second story...
Title by indexer. Caption reads: "'Slim' Williams, International Trail Blazer. Alaska Cabin - A Century of Progress." Verso stamped: "POST CARD. New York - Stadler Photographing Co. - Chicago. Made in U.S.A." Slim Williams was a...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "J. F. Moore. Logan Fort Ind." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "Joe Allabough. Mgr." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Photograph shows single story log building serving as the Fort Yukon Post Office. The sign on front reads: "U. S. Post Office, Ft. Yukon, Alaska, 8 ML north of the arctic circle". There are flowers blooming along...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
(10:14 min.) (09 of 09)
Learning about the barging business
Eskimo boy hunting; beach; tied up the boat; land downstream on the barge; Demientieff, Martha; summer; advice; barge business; safety net; schooling; adventure; educated children in both...
42 second film clip, black & white/silent. The clip shows miners preparing and drilling hard rock. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
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."
56 second, black & white/silent, film clip. The clip shows the transporting and sorting of copper ore. Transport is via ore cars and aerial tramways and conveyor belt. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
One minute, black & white/silent, film clip. The clip shows the transporting of copper ore in mine carts and ore chutes. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...