Photograph with verso caption: "Alaska Statehood backers jubilant-Members of the U. S. Congress who led the fight to make Alaska the 49th state of the Union join with Alaska's Govenor and Congressmen elect in celebrating the final passage of...
Title from verso. Photograph of an crew operating a field artillery piece. Verso reads: "Attu -- Working swiftly, doughboys at left unpack "refills" for the field piece their buddies are firing on Japs during the battle of Attu. In...
View of some of the burned out buildings from the Big Fire in Nome, 13 Sept. 1905. Fresh milled lumber is visible for the rebuilding and one structure is already going up. The name Goetze appears in the bottom right of the photograph and may be...
Title from indexer. Photograph of Mary Cox seated on the supports for a coldframe greenhouse, while puppies vie for her attention. Additional narrative from donor notes reads: "The first summer in Point Hope, at the old mission site, I...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...
Title taken from caption. "By long hope tradition, the church distributed toys (mostly contributed) to all the children, and also gave an adult present to each family. One year the family present was a deck of cards. (Point Hopers were...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia Silverfriend, age 16 (Mrs. Ocha Potter)". "An overnight visit to my broken hearted mother who could see no reason why I should give my life to save Cuba from the Spaniards. Mother threatened to...
Title taken from caption on slide. An older Alaskan Native man sitting in front of a tent. [The title seems to imply that the caption was written at a later date when Ralph Gallahorn was already deceased.]
View three people fly fishing in lake in Alaska, with fish already caught lying in water near edge of lake. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1967-1968? Photographer: William L. McNutt.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
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 supplied by cataloger. Dog sleds next to dog trucks. People appear to be setting up gangline, which is already attached to dog sled. Slide labeled, '3.' Slide carousel labeled, 'Joe Sr Airplane Crash.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Title from album note Additional information from album: The natatorium was about "dead center" over the pool left by the cave-in; a few planks, sections of studding and roofing, floating on water, were all that remained the following morning....
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...