Title from album caption. Starting line of a sled dog race on the Chena River. The Cushman Street bridge is in the background. The spire of Immaculate Conception Church rises behind Samson Hardware. According the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner of...
Title from album caption. Sled dog race on the Chena River. The Cushman Street bridge is in the background. The spire of Immaculate Conception Church rises behind Samson Hardware. According the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner of March 12, 1931, the...
Title from caption in album. Dog team in a race on the Chena River ice. According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner of March 12, 1931, the Tom Wright team was driven by Herbert Lawrence in the H. Wendell Endicott dog derby.
Title taken from caption. A view of the information center at Wood Center. According to the sign posted on the wall, Daily News Miner, Anchorage Daily News, and Anchorage Times all sold for 15 cents, and the Wall Street Journal sold for 40...
Arrie Tillet (Arie Tillet according to the 1910 census) with her dog and Sylvia Sexton's dog playing in the deep snow in Seward, Alaska. Original size of photograph: 4 1/4" x 3 1/4".
Title from verso. "Wilkins' Expedition. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." The markings on the side of the ski plane read: "Detroit News Wilkins Expedition" and "Stinson Detroiter". See UAF-1991-98-427 for more information.
Title from verso. "Wilkins. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." In 1927 Explorer George Hubert Wilkins led the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition. This was Wilkins's second venture into the Arctic. The plane, a Stinson-Detroit biplane which was...
Title from verso. "Wilkins (expedition). Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." A close up shot of the large Fokker airplane which was part of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition of 1927. The side of the ski plane reads "Fokker"; the nose,...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Village, old and new airfields. According to finding aid, part of a series of photographs of Wiseman scenery. Appears to be same place as UAF-2003-124-181 which identifies the river as the Koyukuk.
According to finding aid, part of a series of photographs of Wiseman scenery. Appears to be same place as UAF-2003-124-181 which identifies the river as the Koyukuk.
Title by indexer. Photograph of two children standing outside a house. Two dogs are visible to the right. According to the donor notes: "The Coxes lived for the year and a half of the moving project in a small house located in the middle of...
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867.
One map on 2 sheets. "By Robt. Morden & Will'm. Berry." Shows California as an island; much of the Arctic is blank. Relief shown pictorially. Ancillary map: [Polar projection of the arctic and subarctic]. Decorative cartouche including Captain...
One map on 2 sheets. Shows California as an island; much of the arctic is blank. Relief shown pictorially. Ancillary map: [Polar projection of the arctic and subarctic]. Decorative cartouche including Captain John Wood's coat of arms. Many...
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...
Title from portion of caption, the latter part of caption illegible.
Portrait photo of 10 men sitting down. The man on the far right has been identified as Basil Clemons according to collection notes. Postcard is addressed to Mrs. Alice...
Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...