Title from verso: "Salchaket Bridge Mile 331, Richardson Highway".
In similar handwriting, below: "Laura [Lang] Laddie (Sterlings old dog)". Third note writes, above 'Laura', "Mrs Frank Nash", and below 'Sterlings', "Hawley Sterlings"....
Title from caption and verso. Verso reads: $4.50. #30. Galena, Alaska. 1955." Image shows a DC-3 airplane parked at the Galena Air Force Base. The words "Arctic Liner. Fort Yukon" are visible on the outside of the plane below the...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title from caption in album: "Sept 23 - Ewe two lambs and yearling rams below on East creek over cabin divide". Photograph shows a small creek running over gravel and boulders in front of some mountains.
Title from caption in album: "Sept 27 - Larger bull caribou on bar below my caribou camp 1 ½ miles". Photograph shows a horse standing next to a dead caribou on a dry riverbed. Black spruce trees line the bank of the dry river.
Title from caption in album: "July 24 - An attempt to get McKinley at 9 p.m. forty miles off - Fork of McKinley river below". Photograph shows a distant mountain range as seen through grass on a hill. What appears to be a river can be seen in...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Aug 30 - Indian cache of Toklat natives 5 miles below camp". Photograph shows a cache built amongst trees.
Full note reads: "1949 03 Football on Kobuk River below the school house @ Shungnak, AK. This was a favorite pastime for all of the kids. We would play on the river in the winter until well after midnight most...
"Rifle practice at twenty below zero. Members of the 1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska National Guard on the rifle range during the Guard's Encampment at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Alaska guardsmen must be prepared to fight in all kinds of weather."
Title taken from album. "Return bend, Noyes Slough Fairbanks, Alaska." Indexer's note: A letter on the back reads: Fairbanks, Alaska Dec. 12 1916 My Dear Edith, Just received your letter of October 30. Will write letter before...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Meiji University expedition tent just below summit (left here by the Japanese team on May 5, 1960 - same month as the John Day, Pete Schoening, Jim & Lou Whittaker accident)."
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.