Woman in white llies on grave, white tombstone behind her head; other graves in background; Mayflower Island in distance Printed from original glass-plate negative
Signal Corps photo number SC 140127. Verso: Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
With the playing of taps, a soldier is laid to rest atop a hill in Boot Hill Cemetery. Full military funerals are given soldiers who have died out here. There are seven...
Signal Corps photo number SC 249090. Verso: Chaplain Ruben Curtis of Salt Lake City, Utah, leads men in singing hymns at a burial service of U.S. soldiers killed in action at Massacre Bay, Aleutians Islands, June 1, 1943. The cemetery is...
Signal Corps photo number SC 571441. Closeup of decorated grave.
Verso: Photo by Pfc.Malcolm Greany
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UNCLASSIFIED by OC Sig O, 27 April 1960.
[Kermit Roosevelt was the son of President Theodore Roosevelt]
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.
Newly filled grave is covered by makeshift tent pending erection of a permanent grave house. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 228.