Verso: The old Presbyterian Mission Building, used as the Governor's Office after the capital was transferred from Sitka, being torn down to make way for the Capitol Building on the site.
Photographer's number S.46. Salmon Creek Dam; designed by Lars Jorgensen, chief engineer Harry L. Wallenerg, was the first true constant-angle arch dam. It is 168 feet high and 648 feet across. Completed in 1914. Alaska Electric Light and...
Title taken from image. Tlingit woman seated at work table, putting label on salmon can; stack of labeled cans at left. Taken after 1907. Can labels: Sitkof Brand. Photographer's number E34.
American and Canadian troops had by-passed the island of Kiska as they pressed on to Attu Island where the decisive action of the war in the Aleutians took place. Returning to take Kiska after the Battle of Attu they found that the Japanese forces...
[Mg] Simon Bolivar Buckner, was commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command when war broke out at air base headquarters on Amchitka Island in May 1944. General Buckner first commanded the Alaska Defense Command as a colonel in July 1940. That...
Title from notes with original negative Men are identified as Hobbs and Hill Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A Bolo light-medium bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium Bombardment Squadron and six to the...
Title from notes with original negative Military men are identified as Lt. Tom G. Sinner & Capt Geo. W. A. Beyer Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A Bolo light-medium bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium...
Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium Bombardment Squadron and six to the 36th Heavy Bombardment Squadron. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, both squadrons flew coastal patrol from...
Title from notes with corresponding envelope Twelve USAAC Douglas B-18A bombers were sent to Elmendorf Field in 1940. Six were given to the 73rd Medium Bombardment Squadron and six to the 36th Heavy Bombardment Squadron. After Pearl Harbor was...