Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
Brockman's house in Wiseman, 1954. This is one of those occasions when a photo printed on paper with a postcard format on the back was actually used as a postcard. Message...
Title from caption. Photograph of a log cache in a field. Narrative in photo album reads: "Left. An Indian cache where fish, food and furs are kept safe from dogs and mice. Pieces of trim are nailed around posts so mice cannot climb into it."
Title from caption: "Front St., Ruby, Alaska, Jan. 11, 1912."
Street scene of downtown Ruby, Alaska. Rows of businesses and shops are shown with pedestrians walking outside in the snow. Postcard is postmarked from Tanana, Alaska on Feb. 15,...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows some large and small building that appear to be part of a community as seen from a frozen river. Caption from album reads: "Koyukuk consists of a store, U.S. Government schoolhouse, telegraph station,...
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from caption. "9291 -- The good ship "Queen," after passing the "Seminole," sped on to Skagway, discharged her freight and passengers and then returned to Portage Cove just as the reindeer ship was dropping anchor, on March 27th....
Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...
Title taken from caption. "11507 -- (5) The stories we read of life in the Arctic usually persuade us to believe that only the most robust persons should venture into those latitudes, and then only when well provided with an ample wardrobe of...
Title taken from text.
Album caption: New work on the bank of the Salchaket. Can be seen in 16. Two extra wires hung across the river for use in case of breaks when river cannot be forded.
Title taken from caption on slide. "Cushman bridge (normally cannot see water). Fort Wainwright HHC 171st August 20, 1967." Cars and pedestrians cross the Cushman Street Bridge, largely covered with debris from the 1967 Fairbanks flood....
Title taken from accompanying note. "Old store in McCarthy, 8/84." Sign on the building reads "RO.G. Watsjold. Groceries & meat. Hardware." The sign to the left of the building (faintly visible) reads: "General Merchandise". The old general...
The material accompanying this slide has only two names for these three Native Alaskan men. On the left is Jimmy Atley. The other name is Silas Alexander, although which of these other two men is Mr. Alexander cannot be...
Title from accompanying material. Duplicate photo of UAF 2004-93-24, with poem about Bering Sea Patrol. Poem reads: "Full many a sailor points with pride / To cruises o'er ocean wide; / Buth they cannot compare with me, / For I have sailed...
Title taken from caption. View of Robert F. Griggs trying to cross the Katmai River. In his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Griggs states "After working our way to within a hundred yards of the trees in the distance we had to turn back"....
Three Navy ships docked at Juneau, Alaska. The two ships moored together are 634 on the outside and 334 on the inside. The number of third ship cannot be seen.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. Portrait of members of Outing Club taken on dock at Seward, Alaska, with animal trophies. From verso: "This was taken at Seward, either in 1911-1912 or 1913th. Cannot remember whou [sic] they are. Mrs. Silverman. Property of...
Title taken from accompanying text. Text: In the foreground is Annahootz and beside him is Mary Klan Tech daughter of a subchief of the Kokwanton clan. Mary was sent by Annahootz to warn the white population of Sitka on the night of February 6th....