Title taken from donor's caption. "At Tonsina 90 miles from Valdez. The spot we selected for our camp was in a small grove of spruce trees at the head of a deep valley where two glaciers came down out of the towering mountains. We built a large...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]". At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from donor's caption. A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying. "The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, Summer camp of Indians on Copper River". "At Copper River, a half-mile or more wide, we found a camp of Indians who ferried us across, and a day later we were at Tonsina Station." Additional...
Title taken from donor's caption. "We built a boat here to run the river to the coast. Left to right, Tony Diamond, now (1950) U. S. Federal Judge in Anchorage, Alaska, George Potter, 'Bill' and Julia Potter."
Title taken from donor's caption. "George Potter and Bighorns at our camp on McCarthy Creek. Occasionally the monotony was relieved by a sheep hunting expedition but sheep were few in number and wary. Once we shot a big, shaggy mountain goat...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia posing on McCarthy Creek." The trail was vague and difficult. We had to ford the stream a dozen times, not dangerous water but deep enough to reach to the knees. When we finally reached Donahoe's...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Headquarters camp. Arriving at Valdez in mid-February, we were soon on the trail to McCarthy Creek. We reached the spot I had selected for headquaters in late May, something over 90 days out of Valdez. (In...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The first steamboat goes up the Copper and Chitina Rivers to carry supplies for the Kennecott Mine and to build a railway. The next day we floated lazily down the Chitina River, a much bigger and somewhat...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Greeting card from the Alaska Highway Patrol's 3rd Division showing the heads of the officers. Images are placed a drawing of a totem pole and identified by last name. Card reads: We "totem" help on highways, we "totem" tickets, oh! just a few...
Full title: Savaktugut suli Piuraaqtugut / aglaktik Arnam, Tupaggaaqlu = We work and we play / written by Marie N. Blanchett and Martha Teeluk ; illustrated by Paschal Afcan.
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Too_xa.át = What we eat / developed by the National Bilingual Materials Development Center ; illustrated by Diane Crowne ; written by Esther Shea ; edited ... by Vesta L. Dominicks and Martha Shields.
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