One troy oz 0.999 pure gold, struck to commemorate the purchase of the Alaska Railroad by the State of Alaska, 5 January 1985. The face shows AK PR engine 1500 and the obverse shows Denali with "The Great Land". Struck by Crown Mint, Woodland...
One troy oz 0.999 pure gold, struck to commemorate the purchase of the Alaska Railroad by the State of Alaska, 5 January 1985. The face shows AK PR engine 1500 and the reverse shows Denali with "The Great Land". Struck by Crown Mint, Woodland...
Title from verso. "Tuning up the "Detroiter". This enormous plane has three engines. The [propeller] in the picture [left engine] is the one which struck and killed Palmer Hutchinson. Copies from Reed's."
Caption: "An Eskimo dance. . .is done by making all kinds of motions with the arms and keeping time with the feet by stamping to the beating of the Eskimo drums. There [are] always five or more drums in the hands of men being struck with a slender...
Title from verso. Photograph of a building damaged during the bombing raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "All that remained of a 24-bed hospital at Unalaska after Japanese bombers struck June 4. Fortunately, all patients had been...
Handwritten on left of photo is, "Love and best wishes to all from Basil." Postcard is postmarked July 29, 1912 from Ruby, Alaska, and is addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. Written is, "Ruby. July 29. Dear...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...