Looking east along Front Street from Seward Street; Juneau Drug Company is on the corner at left and Gross Theater is two buildings down. Signs in image: Juneau Drug, Percy's, Read [it] Today - See It [In] The News By Special Delivery.
View of the Kodiak waterfront in the late 19th century. Three of the buildings have been identified as: a warehouse, behind the large sailing vessel with its sails furled; the Custom House, above the warehouse between the far right masts; and the...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "Joe Allabough. Mgr." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title from caption. Image shows a woman in early 20th century dress and hat standing at the edge of a boreal forest containing birch and spruce trees. "Hot Springs" likely refers to Manley Hot Springs. Photo identified by collection...
Double hemisphere showing "Pars Borealis" and "Pars Australis". Relief shown pictorially. Double cordiform projection. Considered the most influential polar world map published in the sixteenth century; prototype for Mercator's double cordiform...
Includes rivers, mountain barriers, railroad routes and coal fields with key. Includes inset map of Aleutian Islands. Includes delineation of southern limit of winter ice. "Plate 1." "House Doc. 1346; 62d Cng., 3d Sess." Map of 19 x 27 cm....
Title taken from caption. "9065 -- (1) In the summer of 1897 our Uncle Samuel began to discern what a bonanza he had bought from Russia 30 years before. From Sitka to Siberia the vast country seems to glitter with gold. There is said to be...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title by Cataloguer. This is a three quarter length portrait of a man dressed in early twentieth century semi-formal outfit, consisting of a dark suit and scarf, a white high collar shirt and white waste coat. The chain of his pocket watch is...
Title by cataloguer. A group portrait of men and women dressed in formal wear. The women who are all seated in front, display a wide variety of tastes in their dresses and hats. The men are more uniform with the exception of the man standing to...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Moses Cruikshank, was a youth of Fort Yukon he had spent nine years at St. Mark's Mission. He was big, strong and reliable and knew dogs and sledding. He was Archdeacon Drane's assistant and trail companion,...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Burial of Chief David of Tetlin May 17th, 1919". [From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Just after the death of the benevolent and much loved Chief David, the men and women of the village...
Title taken from caption on Album. "The people of Tetlin. Jack Singlet & Ole Esbloom to the right ". On the occasion of the funeral ceremony for Chief David of Tetlin. From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Ole Esbloom the trader...
Title taken from accompanying note. A portrait of a young woman dressed in a high-collared white dress. Her hair style is reminiscent of those typical in the turn of the 19th century.
Title taken from accompanying note. L-R: Jennie Johnson, Edith Ryan, and Mrs. Wallie Cathcart. All three women are wearing skirt suits, a style which emerged at the end of the 19th century and became identified with the "New Woman", the young,...
From slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. "This unfortified boundary line between the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America should quicken the remembrance of the more than a century old friendship between these...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "Piles of kelp (Alaria fistulosa) ready to be spaded into native potato gardens, Kodiak." Caption of photo number UAA-hmc-0186-volume7-6018 reads: "... From time immemorial the natives have applied the...