View of a car leaking water after it was apparently pulled from a submerged road somewhere in Southcentral Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. A woman stands by the road on the left. A guard rail is visible. Area is tentatively identified...
Title taken from album caption. View of a bar, Doshen Liquor Store, and other businesses built after the fire of 1943 in Seward, Alaska. A car is parked at right, while a fire hydrant is visible at left. 1943-1946. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton....
A native family poses with hides and guns after a hunting trip near Seward, Alaska. 1910? Photographer: Elsie Blue. Original size of photograph" 6 1/4" x 4".
Icy debris covers the corner of Fourth Avenue and Washington in Seward, Alaska, at the former location of the Arcade Building, after the fire of November 23-24, 1941. The Brosius Apartment building stands behind the debris and railroad cars can be...
Looking north on Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska after the fire of November 23-24, 1941, with men walking at right. Brown & Hawkins and Leo-Bobby Liquor Store are at left. 1941-1942. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph showing the Model Cafe and the Shoe Shop. The notes read: The debris on the right was being cleaned up after a fire across from Model Cafe on 2nd Street. Notes and captions are from Cecil H....
Caption reads: "[unknown] Front St. - Nome, Alaska - after storm. [Oc?]-6-13." Image is of the aftermath of a storm in Nome, Alaska. Debris, logs, and lumber line where a street had been. There are remains of buildings...
Caption reads: "Elite - after storm. 6-13. Nome Alaska - 13." Photo shows wood planks and lumber from buildings as well as barrels strewn about the ground as the result of a storm. A few buildings and two building...
Caption reads: "Interior "Board of Trade" after the big storm. Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men stand inside what looks to be the ruins of a building destroyed by the big storm that occurred in Nome, Alaska on...
Photograph of Kodiak after Katmai volcanic eruption. Statement on verso states that "The dead color on ground and mountains is volcanic ash. This is a view at Kodiak two years after the eruption of Katmai Volcano."
Several Native Alaskans are sitting on the beach among the remains of the Airship Norge after much of the dirigible was dismantled for transport back to Europe.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption. Photograph of the cabin that the Rivenburgs lived and taught in after the school house burnt down. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is the cabin in which we lived after our fire. Where the log projects was a...