Title taken from front. View of the exterior of the Alaska Railroad Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "The Alaska Railroad Hospital. Bonnie's place of birth and where nursing career began". Photographer's number B-3. Original photograph...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title page in British atlas: maps and charts accompanying the Case of Great Britain, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Cyanotype portrait of an unidentified man and Alaska Native woman,and three children sitting on a bench draped with animal hides and skins in the village of Knik on Knik Arm. The man has a mustache, and the women and two younger children have...
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...
Title taken from caption. According to May, Father Kochergin was one of only two Aleut (Unangan) priests serving the Russian Orthodox Church. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Finley. Dempwolfe. Keilhorn. White. Belfort. Senator Thomas. Garcia." According to official reports and the Fourth of July program, the proper title and spelling of names is as follows: Commander G.T....
Group portrait of ten members of the U.S. Army at Ft. Davis near Nome, Alaska. According to a caption on a similar photograph, O. C. Nerby is fourth from last (right?) and Chris Dahl is third from last. All are wearing ice skates.
Ole Christian "Chris" Nerby is at the top right according to a note on the back of the image. Group portrait of nine servicemen in uniform at Ft. Davis near Nome, Alaska. Photograph number 409.
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy raising the roof beams during the construction of the shop on his homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, circa 1961-1963. Harold is using a pulley system to lift the roof beams...
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.
Title taken from label on matting. View from ship during trip through Inside Passage from Seattle, Washington to Skagway, Alaska. Also from label: "Scenery along this route is one of Alaska's greatest assets, according to the Division of...
Title from name on side of plane Pin-up-girl decal appears above name of plane Note: According to Dave Stern, the aircraft may possibly be one of two Boeing B-29As, of the 509th Bomb Squadron, stationed in Alaska and modified as alternate...
View over the housetops, looking toward the school and shed up on hill; also shows retaining wall of cedar around play ground; according to the teacher, Tenakee "exists because of the mineral health springs"
School building was formerly a hall and, according to the teacher's report, "too small for proper accommodation of pupils"; in 1938, 30 students were enrolled, which was down from a high of 57 in 1932; at this time, Tanana had "four stores, one...
In 1932, Goddard, according to the teacher's report was "a post office, hotel, and health resort. The hot springs here are noted for their medical values. The school is situated 3/4 of a mile southeast of the hotel. The Forest Service maintains a...
This school was not used after 1936; according to the teacher's report, "After the school was closed from 1936-1940, it was thought desirable by the community to hold school in the lobby of the hotel belonging to the estate of Mr. Asbjorensen,...
Longwood School enrolled 71 children in 1937; according to the Historical Record, "the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage, a home for Alaska children, supported by the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society, at present having 69 children. Note, this...
Eight students pose along the fence outside the McCarthy School; according to the teacher's report in the Historical Record, McCarthy "is an outfitting point for miners, hunters, trappers, and prospectors. It started as an outgrowth of the...