Robert Beauford "Boots" Clifton in front of "Anchorage, Alaska, 'Crossroads of the air world'" sign at Anchorage International Airport. From verso: "Summer 1962. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1962. Photographer: Jim Balog. Original...
The world's first single-leg drilling platform, called a monopod, was designed for Marathon Oil company and its partner to be used in developing the Trading Bay Field in Alaska. Seven foot model shows portions of the com=lately equipped platform...
Repeating background logo for "The Admiral Line, P.S.S. Co.," with an outline of a cruise ship labeled, "Cruising the world's smoothest waterway; thru the Inside Passage & 10,000 islands of Alaska"
Full-length studio portrait of woman lying on fur robe; possibly Fabruda Manzar, famed "Little Egypt" of Chicago World's Fair, who later performed in Skagway and Dawson during the gold rush
Title from image caption Governor Brady totem pole, with house pillars, a gift of Son-i-yat, Haida chief of Kasaan; exhibited at St. Louis World's Fair and then placed in Sitka park Photographer's number 163
Color photograph, taken along with series of black and whites Notes on versos include: "World's first turbine prop-jet-converted Grumman Goose N-95431"; "After also receiving McKinnon retractable wing front mod"
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...