Title from image. Note continues: Purchased by Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. to provide further area for the operations. Note at bottom: Map No. 3
Showing principal improvements so far constructed by the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining...
Shows land district divisions, reported gold discoveries, coal & copper deposits, land offices, routes to interior, proposed railroads. Capital is at Sitka (thus map would be pre-1906). In color. Mounted on linen.
Title from caption. Photograph of the mail carrier leaving Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is the mail carrier leaving the village bound down river. Before we came mail was delivered thus once every four weeks...
"Born in Alaska and thus unable to vote for previous presidential elections, William Egan is shown as he marks an absentee ballot to be recorded in his hometown of Valdez."
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
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. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...
Title taken from caption. "Jim VanStone later commissioned and published as a monograph an autobiographical account written by Luke Koonook while he was for a time laid up with an injury [broke an arm, possibly?] and thus couldn't hunt."
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
"Kodiak's Earthquake of March 27th caused this separation in a runway apron, aboard the U. S. Naval station. The earthquake caused minor damage compared to the amount of destruction...
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Caption calls this a "Cut-in" pole and there is a had written addition message below caption that reads: I personally did the wiring,on this pole between 11pm & 1am June 25-26/13. Abundant daylight for such work, &...
Title from caption.
Photograph of a wagon laying out telegraph lines. Caption with photo reads: Eight miles of wire was strung in this manner, five months before the line was built. In summer wire could be handled only by pack-mule, one coil...
Title supplied by cataloger. Tail dragger plane on skis, parked on a snow covered field in front of a hangar. Visible markings are "CCCP-177" [i.e., "SSSR-177"]. These markings appear to be Cyrillic, thus marking the plane as Soviet. This...
Title supplied by cataloger. Airplane marked as CCCP-177 [i.e., SSSR-177] on wheels without wings being towed by a truck across snowy field. Three men in the truck and a utility pole visible in the background. The markings appear to be...
Group of ivory carvings made at Nunivak Island, Alaska, including figurines (one of walrus), letter openers decorated with seal figures, and crochet hook decorated with fish figure. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled]...