View of a group of men and women gathered around a scale model of a fish trap. The sign in front reads: "This is a fish trap, Alaska's Enemy No. 1, vote oct. 12th, to abolish it". Based on other photographs in the series this photograph was most...
View of a truck belonging to Anchorage Sand and Gravel. The sign on the door reads: "Anchorage Sand and Gravel, Build it with concrete". The banner on the side reads: "Yes! Another New One". Based on other photographs in the series this photograph...
Reily, Sheryl Maree (artist). Photograph: color inkjet on paper and mixed media. Signed and titled, verso. Extensive technical information is provided on a separate sheet included with the print. This work is part of the Alaskan Digital Print...
Latin. Shows northern latitudes not previously recorded on a printed map. Attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus. From the first woodblock atlas of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography. Cut by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, as evidenced by...
Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading. Shows portion of Clarence Strait, based on descriptions from the steamship Nikolai I in 1839. With (on verso): Karta Baltiiskago Moria [Map of the Baltic Sea]. Signed by George Davidson,...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Based on a survey by W.H. Dall and party in 1871 & '72. Annotations including, "No. 724" and "No. 438."
Published in [Washington D.C.] by United States Coastal Survey. Scale is [ca....
Tracing of St. Paul and St. George Islands. Ms., mounted on paper. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Based on survey made by Russian Ingen. Capt. Archimandritof. Signed by George Davidson, 1867; also bears a note by Davidson:...
Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Alternate title on verso within ornamental border. Based on discoveries by Verrazano. First map to show the two American continents as being attached, also names the Pacific Ocean and depicts Japan. Predominant...
A main log building sits on the left side of a gravel road with two small log buildings to the right. Cloudy skies, with no snow on ground. Appears to be summer or autumn.
Title from verso. Image shows a street scene in Fairbanks. In the center of the image are seventeen dogs harnessed to a sled. A man wearing a suit is sitting in the sled and the dogsled driver is standing behind it. A long row of cabins and...
Title from verso. View of a dog team standing on the ice on frozen Birch Lake. Five dogs are harnessed to a small sled and the driver, Calvin F. Townsend, is standing behind it. The lead dog is identified as "Sox." Trees line the shore of the...
Title from verso. Image shows a young woman seated by gold mining equipment and holding a pan full of gold nuggets, smiling. Behind her a pile of tailings is visible and next to her appears to be a sluice box. Photo may have been taken...
Title from verso. View of a large assembly of automobiles, identified as mostly Fords, parked in a grassy field. Appear to be predominantly Ford Model Ts. Men in suits and hats can be seen standing between the cars. Hills are visible in the...
Title from verso. View of car races at a 4th of July celebration in Fairbanks in 1917. Formally dressed men and women are sitting on bleachers behind the racing track. Several of the women are holding parasols. Photo may have been taken...
Title from verso. Image shows salmon drying on a fish rack along a river bank. Part of a smoke house is also visible up the bank on the right side of the image. Photo may have been taken by Calvin F. Townsend, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...
Title from verso. Image shows a black dog named "Sox" standing in the snow. A chain tying the dog to a post is visible. Several log and wooden buildings are visible in the distance. Photo is taken in winter. Photo was likely taken by...
Title from verso. Image shows a large garden at a fish camp along the Tanana River. The garden contains several rows of leafy plants. A man in a hat can be seen standing at the edge of the river bank slightly to the left of the center of the...
Title from verso. Image of the Cushman Street Bridge crossing the Chena Slough (later Chena River), looking north. A crowd of people is visible on the bridge, while the Catholic church (apparently Immaculate Conception) and a hill are visible...
Title from verso. Image shows a woman standing in a large garden holding her hands up. A leafy plant that looks like rhubarb is in the foreground and a plant that looks like flowering potatoes is visible on the right side of the image. A...
Title from verso. Image shows a flower path leading to a house that has been constructed of hand-hewn logs and lumber. Wooden boards form a boardwalk between the two rows of flowers on the path. Nasturtiums and other flowers are shown climbing...