Title from image caption Full caption: "Along the Alaska Highway through Canada's wilderness; carry-all moving to a fill, by a welcome army of U. S. soldiers" Permission Wartime Information Board
Title taken from verso. Service men wait in line to enter canteen in USO building in Anchorage, Alaska, while other men and two women (one holding a cat) sit on couches in foreground. Also from verso: "Note the skin and the walrus head on the wall,...
Title from verso. Photograph of a submarine docking at Dutch Harbor, while an honor guard waits on the pier. Verso reads: "Vulnerable. -- Dutch Harbor, the Navy's oldest base in the Aleutian Islands, has been reduced to "care-taker"...
(3:28 min.) (13 of 28) 13. Whitehorse and Fairbanks
George stayed awhile in Seattle and saw Boeing in full wartime production. Eighteen to twenty B-17's a day were produced. He went to Whitehorse, YT. Bill Lavery was a pilot for Morrison...
"Watch Alaska! "Opportunity... "Pilots and mechanics Alaska Star airlines is growing! To keep pace with today's urgent wartime requirements and gear up for the increased passenger, mail, express and freight...
Photograph of three unidentified men standing outside a store in Mountainview, Anchorage. Signs on the side of the wooden building read "Mountainview. Groceries. Liquor. Real Estate. Houses. Acres. Lots. Branch Office." Original photograph...
View of the South Seas bar and dance room from across the street. The building has a thatched roof and decorative Tapa cloth panels on the exterior. The name of the bar, "South Seas" is written on the door. A woman pedestrian walks past the...
Interior shot of the South Seas bar & dance room. The roof is thatched with bamboo or cane strips and supported by bamboo poles; a tapa cloth panel is partially visible. Cane tables and chairs fill the room. A large mural showing monkeys on...
Interior shot of the South Seas bar and dance room, Anchorage. A thatched roof supported by bamboo poles hangs over the bar giving the feeling of being in a grass hut. Cane barstools and chairs continue the South Pacific theme. Original photograph...
Interior shot showing the dance floor at the South Seas bar & dance room, Anchorage. The dance floor is surrounded by a raised mezzanine floor filled with cane tables and chairs. Two palm trees are on either side of the entrance to the dance floor....
Title from image caption Full caption: "Scene along the Alaska Highway through Canada's wilderness, built by a welcome army of U.S. soldiers" Permission Wartime Information Board