Two mushers outside two log cabins at Yankee Creek. George Glass, his seventeen year old son Ophir, and Irving Reed traveled by dog sled for 14 days from Wasilla to Yankee Creek in late March 1920. Reed described this...
Title from caption. Image shows a street scene in Tanana, with three buildings visible. The building on the right has a sign reading "Tanana Post Office." Several horses and horse-drawn-sleds are in the street. Men are seen standing in the...
48 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Romig Collection, 1930-1932". Film shows the arrival of Matt Neimanen with his wife and child in Anchorage, Alaska, on a ski plane. On the side of the plane appears to be...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of people from Stephens Village travelling by canoe to Tanana for their annual trip. Narrative in the album reads: "The above pictures were taken by Mr. Paul Shultz in the spring and summer of 1910 before our...
Title from cataloger. Photograph is of a tent and hides being smoked as a part of their tanning. Visible in the photo is a woman behind the left side of the smoking hides, a girl in the tent and a couple of sleeping dogs. Narrative in the album...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of a woman who may be Cora Rivenburg standing on the porch of a house. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is our house at Stevens Village taken the day after our arrival. The school room occupied the...
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
32 second, color/silent film clip. From title frame: "Dickson Collection".BR>Film shows Star Airlines Bellancas flying in formation over Anchorage as seen from inside one of the cockpits.
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A tugboat and barges, used to lighter freight from larger ocean-going barges after their arrival on Alaska's North Slope, maintain a lonely vigil after freezeup in the fall on 1969."
note reads: "New bus arrival Fairbanks, October 11, 1937, driven by Paul Greimann, owner, from Valdez, Alaska over Richardson Highway. From left to right - Bill Arend - Accountant, unidentified, Paul Greimann, Wally Shaw - mechanic."
Title from cataloger notes. Full cataloger notes read: "Passenger and two children arrival over Alaska Highway from Key West, Florida. The longest trip ever recorded at that time traveling by bus."
Title taken from caption. "John Folger - Discoverer, Prospector, Trapper. Innoko River (Folger Creek) 1884. Discovered Gold in Koyukuk (Tramway Bar) 1894. Trapped on Kantishna River. Died There in 1931. Made an Early Arrival on Yukon River,...
Title taken from caption. "9272 -- (31) On March 28, 1898, the government reindeer relief expedition landed at Haines Mission. The herd then numbered 525.
From the date of the landing of the deer at Haines Mission the story of the...
Title taken from caption. "Ft. Yukon" Cataloguer's note: A view of a village or settlement perhaps seen from a ship. The Episcopal Church parsonage mentioned in the caption can be seen in the far left, it is distinguishable from the other houses...