Title by cataloger. View of active volcano. Visible are smoke plumes and snow sprinkled with ash. The volcano closely resembles one identified as Mount Shishaldin (on Unimak Island) in "North Pacific: Japan, Siberia, Alaska, Canada" by...
Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
Title by cataloger. This appears to be an explorer examining the inside rim of an active volcano. There's a fog surrounding him where steam is rising. [Judging by the patches of white, he may instead be on a glacier or in the crevice of a...
Title taken from caption. Men and women at All Saints' Episcopal Church picnic at Big Lake, Alaska. March 1954. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
Title taken from caption. From May's journal, dated June 29th: "By evening we had reached False Pass, which flows between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. ...Beyond the Pass lay Round Top, Isnotski [sic] and Sheshaldin [sic], the three most...
Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign for Wrangell Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Wrangell Mountains. The mountains as viewed to the east are, left to right: Mt. Sanford, 16,210 feet, 52 miles...
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Title taken from image. Thirteen men in formal dress. Orthodox priest in center.
Verso, notes of Anna Katzeek: Archie Demetris White, chief of Raven tribe of Hoonah is in tall hat beside priest. Additional information about Archie...