2 maps on one sheet. Components: The Aral Sea according to Khanikoff -- Kamchatka according to A. Erman. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. No. 8 from Fullarton's Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography. Includes seven illustrations...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
3 min, 57 sec film clip, black & white/silent. A man takes a shovelful of dirt from several dredge buckets and runs it through a rocker box, then pans the dust for gold. According to the catalog record for the film containing this...
4 maps on one sheet. Relief shown pictorially. With: A map of the Islands of Farro or Farro according to Jacobson Debes -- A draught of the whirlpool on the south east of Sumbo Rocks with the soundings -- An improved map of Iceland. Outline...
48 second film clip, black & white/sound. From title frame: "Gruening Collection, 1961-1964". Film shows Ernest Gruening telling Philleo Nash that the problems of Alaskan Natives differ according to geographic location.
65 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a small town newspaper being produced. According to the sign hanging on the building, Jack Allman was the editor and publisher. Possibly this is him in the clip. A man types and then makes copies of...
69 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Phillips Collection". Film shows men and fire engines trying to put out a hangar fire at Weeks Field in Fairbanks. According to the catalog record, the fire is at an Alaska...
"The man with the boots is Charlie Brower 'King of Pt. Barrow'. . ." Charlie Brower and a priest are posing on the deck of a ship, possibly the USCG Spencer.
According to David Schienle, Archive Clerk for the Catholic Church in Fairbanks,...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
According to a Jan. 2, 2010, e-mail from Harold Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist of Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, "This was probably a 'shoreboat' in Sitka. ...