Title taken from caption. Group photograph of USO volunteers and military personel. Caption reads; "Group portrait of USO volunteers. Includes Beverley Pettyjohn, Beulah Marrs, Helen Lawrence, and Polly Petty. Circa 1942-1944. Anchorage." Photo...
“Among some 200 volunteers who worked round-the-clock in Seattle to process more than 30,000 inquiries from anxious relatives of Alaskans living in areas affected by the Good Friday earthquake were (from...
Title taken from note with photo. "Civilian volunteers turn out to help put Sewards [Seward's] Radio Station KIBH back on the air following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 4/3/64." About eight men are gathered around a piece of equipment...
Ocha Potter, age 20. "In the early spring of 1898 came rumors of war with Spain. Soon war was declared. My father and grandfather had been Civil War veterans. An earlier ancestor had been an officer with George Washington's staff. Another had...
(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Busy Crew -- Air Force personnel as well as civilian civil Defense volunteers had their hands full at Seward, Alaska, on the day after the Good Friday earthquake....
Note with photo reads: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Over 20 Air Force vehicles and men from Elmendorf AFB, along with a multitude of civilian volunteers spent several days shortly after the Good Friday earthquake assisting...
Title taken from sign in photo. Woman sits under sign advertising "Date Nite" at USO building in Anchorage, Alaska, with men on either side offering her cigarettes (left) and beverages (right). Also from sign in photo: "Every Sat[urday] night,...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title supplied by cataloger. Five people stand and sit at table. One is on the telephone. A large trail map hangs on the wall behind them. American flag in the corner. Slide printed 3/1977. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Two men stand holding bibs against wall. Possibly Anchorage? Slide labeled, 'Photo copyright Joe Redington Sr. Knik, Alaska.' Slide printed 3/1977. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Two people bend over dog team sleeping on hay beds. Buildings in background. Slide labeled, 'Photo copyright Joe Redington Sr. Knik, Alaska.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Race. Adults and children sit and stand at a table holding newspapers, notebooks, and telephone. Flag behind, and race standings posted to wall. Television in the foreground. Slide printed 3/1978. Original...
Title supplied by cataloger. People standing and sitting around a table indoors. One man holds a microphone while interviewing another man. Route map on the wall reads, 'Iditarod Trail 1977.' Possibly Iditarod headquarters. Original format: 35mm...
Volunteer workers from the Homer Area Recovery Coalition (HAR.C.), Benn Levine and Billy Day, clean rocks using rock washer - Mars Cove, Port Dick (Gulf of Alaska).