Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska is stamped on the back of the photograph. A U.S. military survey crew is aboard the Yukon near Seward, Alaska. Cape Fairfield is in the background. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
Image appears to be possibly a ship with crew aboard. The water area in the photo is labeled: "St Lawrence Bay, Siberia." The ship is labeled: "U.S.R.C. 'Bear'." This is probably the United States Revenue Cutter "Bear."
Caption reads: "Mukpie - Point Barrow Eskimo Girl. Youngest person aboard, and one of the survivors of the S.S. "Karluk." Canadian-Arctic (Stefansson) Expedition." A young girl stands outside, wearing a fur parka,...
51 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Cordle Collection". Film shows men struggling to load a Moss Larsen diesel engine aboard a Star Airways Bellanca.
Title taken from verso. Photograph with the following written on the reverse of image: "Judge Joseph W. Kehoe holds court at Homer, Alaska. Pictured here are Ed. Davis, Anchorage Attorney; Levi W. Holmes; M. E. S. Burnella, Clerk of Court, and...
12 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection, 1978". Film shows men loading furs into a monoplane in Siberia. Aircraft N-Number is partially covered [N?0002].
The Edward L. Creamer Papers consist of one memoir titled "A Dogface in Alaska: Surveying and Surviving," with digital print copies of 190 photographs. The memoir details Creamer’s experiences as topographic computer with U. S. Army’s 551st...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of the Taku Glacier. Narrative in photo album reads: "A distant view of Taku Glacier near Juneau, taken from aboard our ocean ship on the way to Alaska."
Title from verso. Photograph of canvas umiaks shuttling cargo from a Navy vessel to St. George. Verso reads: "Five of 16. Last Long Mile -- Although cargo to the Pribilofs arrived at destination aboard a modern Navy transport which also...
(5:35 min.) (08 of 24) 08 Spring preparations. Rust preventation on ship. Liked to work on the SS Aleutian -- a nice ship and a fast one. Assistant Steward assisted passengers, cleaned cabins before the next passengers were brought aboard,...
89 second, color with sound, film clip. From title frame: Excerpt from "Report from the Aleutians", a 1943 War Dept. film produced, directed, and narrated by John Huston. Note from catalog record: Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. ...
One minute, 42 second, black & white/silent, film clip of scenes aboard a steamship. Also seen are fog, ocean, a light house, passengers and crew, people playing shuffleboard, and another ship filmed through a port hole.
Title from attached news release. Series of 12 photos showing a safety award being presented. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 (nights: WE...