The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Title taken from verso. Six tents along the water's edge. Verso: At this point Road follows natural dyke between swamp and river channel. Photographer's number 38.
Title taken from verso. Workmen digging in front of one of three large buildings. Two women and a child are crossing the open area between buildings. Verso: John Beaver Mertie.
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Title from image. Church built by Presbyterian Mission Board 1906 on 5th St. between Seward & Main - which later became the Christian Science Church and was moved, in 1924 to 5th and Main. The house on the left was the Martin George home. ...
The new Decker Brothers store on Front Street between Seward and Main Streets in Juneau, built in the 1890s. A crowd of men with loaded sleds stand in front on snowy road.
Title from image. Faded view of a glacier. Glacier's name given in 1890 due to its rapid melting. It receded more than 1000 yards between 1886 and 1890. It has now entirely disappeared. Photographer's number 235.
Signal Corps photo number SC 179466. Verso: During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers, 30 or 40 in a group; a great many of them realizing that they were trapped and going to be killed...
Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen fighter, flown by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Toga in attack on Dutch Harbor, June 3-4, 1942. Toga's plane was hit in the oil line and trailing smoke; he tried to land on Akutan Island, but his wheels sank between...