Title from verso. Image shows a man on a snowy hillside on skis. The man carries ski poles, and is wearing a shoulder bag. Trees are visible in the background.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from image. Photograph of Multnomah Falls, claiming it is a 620 foot drop. Narrative in photo album reads: "Two of many such falls along the Columbia River Highway. The bridge on the left (94-70-955) carries the highway; but on the...
Title from image. Photograph of Wahkeena Falls. Narrative in photo album reads: "Two of many such falls along the Columbia River Highway. The bridge on the left (94-70-955) carries the highway; but on the right (94-70-954) that bridge just...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Four big horn at right. Ocha Potter fords branch of Lakina River. Carries pants on back." [Probably 1905.] "The ford was in a deep canyon with rapids through vertical rock walls above and below. We had been...
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Album caption: "Cut-in" pole at junction of Delta loop with main line. The telegraph line between Valdez and Fairbanks carries two wires. As Delta is about 2 1/2 miles off the main line it is necessary to 'loop'...
Title from accompanying notes. View uphill of a man climbing mountain. The mountain slope is barren and quite steep. The man is tethered with rope, and he carries a pick axe or walking stick.
Title taken from caption. Charles Yori, a member of the National Geographic expedition, carries a pack and a walking stick. Caption also says: "Charlie Yori and the pack he carried over the Pass." Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai...
Title taken from caption. A series of boats with whaling crews maneuver around ice floes during a whale hunt near Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Many of the men are wearing white parkas. The boat nearest to the camera carries seal floats....
Fourth of July float in downtown Anchorage. Kimball's Dry Goods store sign is visible in the background. Spectators line the street. The float, on the back of a truck, carries two children standing behind a miniature house, along with two buckets...
Title hand-written on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 6, 1961 and depicts naturalists Margaret "Mardy" E. Murie (1902-2003), left, and Olaus Johan Murie (1889-1963), right, in the Sheenjek River valley in Alaska. ...
This color slide depicts an Alaska Native woman with a child on her back in either Kotzebue or Barrow, Alaska, 1962. The woman wears a green scarf over her hair and carries underneath her coat, which is trimmed in fur. The child wears a yellow...
This color slide depicts an unidentified man standing near the Park Road in Mount McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park and Preserve), looking at Mount McKinley in the distance. The photo was taken in 1962. The man is wearing a suit and...
View of Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. View includes soldiers, another person in the background, buildings, cars, and trucks. Sign on a post, near center, reads JC Penney Customer Parking Only. On the left, sign reads First...
Title taken from verso. View of men with train of Caterpillar construction vehicles on ice road (also called Hickel Highway) stopping while bound for Bettles, Alaska, during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. Truck at left carries manufactured...