"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso reads, "Walter Blue. Photographed in his office (U.S. Army Historian) at Ft. Wainwright, Als. Sept., 1974." Image shows an elderly man wearing a suit jacket and tie, seated in front of a set of...
"Native girs at Waynewright. It's just like a 'teeter-totter' only they stand up." The home and barn visible in the photograph looks remarkably like a farmhouse.
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts meeting with a U.S. Army officer on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably either a mother or troop leader, stands behind each...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts inside an office General Charles Hall on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably a mother or troop leader, stands behind each girl. Pictures in...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts inside an office of General Charles Hall on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably a mother or troop leader, stands behind each girl. The girl...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts inside the office of General Charles Hall on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably a mother or troop leader, stands behind each girl. Framed...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
31 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #55, 1984)". Film shows a medevac patient being loaded off of a Cessna 207 and into an ambulance in Barrow.
Title taken from note with photo. "Valdez . . . Men of 'B' Company, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry, Fort Wainwright, clearing debris from the dock area along the waterfront Sunday following the Good Friday quake. US Army photo." Additional information...
Title from attached caption. Photograph of a soldier and a civilian helping a refugee child off a bus following the 1964 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Full caption reads: " Evacuees Arrive In Fairbanks. Citizens of Valdez arrived by bus...
Title taken from note with photo. "Coffee time and round table discussion is being held by these enlisted men of the 'Helping Hand' detachment from Wainwright at Valdez during the aftermath of the quake. (U.S. Army Photo)".
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "The American Legion Hall at Glennallen (post 27) was used for the first [time] on Good Friday, as the Emergency shelter for the citizens of Valdez, and used as one of the three mess halls...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Tom Edwards, Glennallen, Mr. Henry Eichman, St. Louis Red Cross disaster director, and George Ashby, Civil Defense head for Glennallen - Copper Center area of Alaska. Discussing the ways...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Ladies at the Gateway Inn in Glennallen had coffee waiting when the Ft. Wainwright soldiers arrived to begin the first phases of 'Operation Helping Hand' following the Alaska Earthquake...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Medical supplies being transfered from station wagon to high way state Police car at mile 57, Glenn hiway for emegency [emergency] flight at Gulkana to Palmer for the Hospital for the...