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 from caption, brackets by cataloger. Photograph of an abandoned cabin covered by snow. Narrative in photo album reads: "Winter scenes near villages. Below an abandoned cabbage nearly covered with snow."
Title taken from caption. A view of the remaining buildings at the abandoned Fort Egbert encircled by a fence, with the town of Eagle, Alaska in the background. 1919.
Title from caption. Photograph of a church and belfry near Lake Bennett. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right an abandoned church of the gold rush days standing all by itself near Lake Bennet where miners stopped for some rest in their...
Title from verso. Verso also reads, "Torn down about 1927 - Fort abandoned at time of World War 1917. I went to Seattle on the "Victoria" with one of the companies in 1917. Andrews." Verso signed C.L.A. Image shows a row of...
Title from caption. Photograph of an abandoned village on the Tanana Village Narrative in photo album reads: "An abandoned Indian village on the Tanana River - Why? No one knows."
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an abandoned riverboat covered in snow. There are many tree saplings poking out from the snow in the foreground. Caption from finding aid reads "Abandoned riverboat at McGrath 1954-56". Location is...
Title taken from caption. View of an abandoned sheep shearing pen on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The posts have been sand-blasted by ash blowing in the wind, making them look like they have been painted white. Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title taken from verso. View of abandoned barabaras at Point Lay, Alaska. One of the structures has its frame exposed. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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The notebook is a diary of a young Inupiat school girl named Alva Nashoalook, who relates events in her daily life in Icy Cape. The dates given are June [27], 1912 through April 1, 1913 Subjects include walrus and seal hunting, trapping, reindeer,...
Information from Coast Guard: The cruise ship PRINSENDAM was abandoned 200 miles off the coast of Alaska, due to fire; over 500 passengers and crew were rescued; the ship sank seven days later
Information from Coast Guard: The cruise ship PRINSENDAM was abandoned 200 miles off the coast of Alaska, due to fire; over 500 passengers and crew were rescued; the ship sank seven days later
Information from Coast Guard: The cruise ship PRINSENDAM was abandoned 200 miles off the coast of Alaska, due to fire; over 500 passengers and crew were rescued; the ship sank seven days later
Information from Coast Guard: The cruise ship PRINSENDAM was abandoned 200 miles off the coast of Alaska, due to fire; over 500 passengers and crew were rescued; the ship sank seven days later