Neil Sexton, brother of Sylvia Sexton, stands in front of two log cabins in Seward, Alaska. He is wearing a fur coat and hat, carrying a gun, and wearing snowshoes. 1915? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 3" x 5 1/4".
Photo looks down Front Street in Nome, Alaska during a storm on October 7, 1913. The street is wet, and lumber and boards are strewn about. People are gathered, possibly to assess damage or clean up from the...
A group of Alaskan Native women sit on the ground around what looks to be a campfire for cooking. There are kettles and frying pans on or near the fire. One woman is feeding a baby and two other women look to be carrying...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
This man is carrying a rifle (or a shotgun?), a parka, and has two dogs. The dogs are on harnesses. Buildings are visible in the background. A related photograph is at UAF-1968-21-210.
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 5 OIL. 1 1/2 col x 18 PICA. "Chena Flow---." Close-up of a portion of the 100-foot long model of a 3-mile segment of the Chena River. Tinted water carrying strips of colored paper is passed down the...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Close-up of a portion of the 100-foot long model of a 3-mile segment of the Chena River. Tinted water carrying strips of colored paper is passed down the trough (river bed). Photos of the movement show how the...
Title from caption. Image shows a flume carrying water across a mining prospect. Gold Run is located near Glenn and Rhode Island Creeks, near the juncture of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. Photo identified by collection donor as formerly...
Title by indexer. Image shows three men engaged in digging and tending a sluice box built into a depression in the ground. The sluice is a long wooden trough for carrying water over gold-bearing soils. Their work site is lined with thin black...
Title from caption. Image shows a flume carrying water across a mining prospect. This collection contains another copy of this image (UAF-2005-92-21) with the caption "Automatic Gate, Gold Run, Alaska." Gold Run is located near Glenn and...
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...
Photograph shows seven Alaskan huskies pulling a sled carrying Gareth Wright up a snowy trail on a bright sunny day. Tall spruce trees and shorter deciduous trees line the far side of the trail.
Hand colored. From Renard's Atlas de la Navigation (1715). Polar projection. Sheet illustrated with the figure of Atlas carrying the globe in the shape of a planisphere. Shows California as an island.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a boy with his brother tied to his back, standing on the bank of the Yukon River. Narrative in photo album reads: "This is rather unusual showing a boy, (Likeness?) carrying his little brother Herman. Herman...