Cyanotype photograph of Martha White, right, and her mother, left, in Sunrise, Alaska in 1898. The child is wearing a hat and holding a cat. A man, several wooden buildings and a pile of logs are visible in the background. Photograph taken during...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Ahgupuk, George Aden (artist). Size: 17.5 x 35 in. Medium: Pen and ink on hide Signed and dated lower right. Signature reads "George Aden Ahgupuk, Shishmaref, Alaska, 1936" Artist Info: Born 1911, Died 4/1/2001
Title taken from front. View of the exterior of the Alaska Railroad Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "The Alaska Railroad Hospital. Bonnie's place of birth and where nursing career began". Photographer's number B-3. Original photograph...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Verso: Virginia Jaunita Gregg maiden name. Virginia Lowney married name. First white child born at the top of the earth Point Barrow Alaska 1919. Died Feb. 11, 1953. To Governor William A. Egan from her son Walter G. Lowney, 1966.
Full-length portrait, taken outdoors, of Stroller White, born in 1859 and died in 1930; publisher of first newspaper in Douglas; owner/editor of Whitehorse Star for a decade; and Speaker of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives in 1918.
Head and shoulders engraved portrait of the German born physician and traveler, G.H. Langsdorff, who worked for the Russian American Company and accompanied Rezanof to California in 1806-1807
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "A grizzled old-timer with his outfit on the trail to the Golden Klondike, 1898. His joy is born of the fact that age had not conquered him. Note the talisman...