View of traffic and parked vehicles on street in Fairbanks, Alaska. Some signs in photo read: "Dinner house" and "1st National Bank." Lettering on truck at right reads: "Studebaker." Aug. 1953. Photographer: Robert Mounteer. Photograph type: 35 mm...
Title taken from caption. View of traffic sign in Emmonak, Alaska, with buildings in background. Sign reads: "Drive slow." Also from caption: "Emmonak, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
A house on the corner of W. 35th St. and Budlong Ave. is surrounded by shrubbery and vine-covered posts. W. 35th St. and Budlong Ave. is near Los Angeles, California.
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 Harry Heins material consists of a photograph album documenting the building of the Canol Highway. The Canol (short for Canadian Oil) Road was a project that built a pipeline and a road from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada, to...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from note with photo. "First Federal Savings building on 5th avenue Anchorage, following the Alaska Earthquake 27 March 1964". Three GIs stand on the street in front of the building.
Title taken from note with photo. "The nearly completed Alaska Sales & Service building destroyed by the Alaska Earthquake Anchorage Alaska, 3/28/64". In front of the building, a sign reads "Speed limit 35".
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Clean-up beginning in Anchorage Ak., on fourth Ave. following the Alaska Earthquake 3/31/64". A workman in a hard hat looks down at a sunken Fourth-Avenue building.
Title taken from accompanying note. "Turnagain area Anchorage following the Alaska Earthquake 27 March 1964". Shows a crack in the snowy earth on McKenzie Drive at Tulik. Tipped houses and trees are in the background.
Title taken from accompanying note. "Damaged Turnagain area Anchorage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". A car sits on the cracked ground. In the background, a house is tipping toward Knik Arm. Three people are walking on the...
Title taken from caption on slide. "Fort Wainwright HHC 171st." Additional note attached indicates that these photographs were taken by Mark C. Glunz, who was at the time assigned to the 171st infantry Brigade at Fort Wainwright.
Title taken from caption on slide. "Fort Wainwright HHC 171st August 20, 1967." Cars on Cushman Street during the 1967 Fairbanks flood. Behind Carr's Clothing Store a sign reads "Kuppenheim Clothes". Additional note attached indicates that...
Title from verso. "Main street of Anchorage, Alaska 4th Avenue. Summer 1953." A large street banner reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for fun, fun for all. Anchorage Community Chorus and Act Inc. Aug 17 thru 22. Down in the Valley."
Title from verso. "Highway to Seward, Alaska. Summer 1953." A small sign on the left reads: "Bar - Cafe Red's 11 Mi - [Portage]". This is a yellowed color photo.
Title from accompanying note. ["Fairbanks flood, 1967; photo has negative."] A crowd of people are standing at the riverfront, at the corner of Cushman St. and First Avenue, facing the Chena River. To the left (not visible in the photo) stands...