Title from caption in album: "Oct 3 - Same toward Outside Mt. showing woods + willows frosted - this frost falling in a clear day and gathering on the trees ushered in the winter". Photograph shows a man holding the reins of a horse. The horse...
Title from caption in album: "May 2 - S.W. from highest Peak of Bear Draw - Up [illegible] Divide at right - McKinley was clear, but does not show". Photograph shows snow covered mountains and a river valley.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man in a suit standing next to a plane. The side of the plane reads: "Spokane Sun God". Other letters and numbers can be seen but are not clear enough to be read. Original size is 2.75 in. x 1.75 in.
Title from caption. Photograph of soldiers preparing to clear a gun emplacement on Attu Island, Alaska. Caption reads: "Ny 901 -- Two Jap [ Japanese ]soldiers were entrenched in this gun emplacement on the west arm of Holtz Bay, Attu. ...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing snow off a roof. Verso reads: "Soldiers at a U.S. Army base in the Aleutians do a little old-fashioned snow shoveling to clear important points after a williwaw (howling blizzard to you)...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Photograph of Mary Cox. She is holding a pole but it is not clear what she is doing. There is a boat on a raised platform in the distant background. There is no snow on the ground and she is wearing saddle shoes with her parka.
Typewritten on recto: "March 1st, 1917. View of ice on flats and larger lumps in mouth of Ship Creek. Note: Surface of Arm is clear of ice and that on flats is slush ice."
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...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title from verso. Photograph of a community on the rail line. Aerial photograph of a community on the rail line showing residential homes in the foreground, and railroad shops and yards across the river. Full caption from verso...
Title taken from caption. "Smiths Ice Cream, Fairbanks." It is not clear what is happening here but it appears to involve ice cutting. According to an e-mail dated 13 January 2012 from Pat Fitzgerald, this may be the operation of...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A spectacular view of an ice formation -- sheet ice at a steep angle. A woman dressed in beautiful Alaska Native traditional garments, poses while standing on the ice high above ground, almost...
Title taken from accompanying material. Note from the cataloguer: The people seen in this photograph and their corresponding names are not as clear as one might wish. The names provided are as follows. Back Row (l. - r.): Harry Shirai,...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: Killisnoo Island which is located in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska, is captured here on a clear day. Few houses can be seen on the shore.
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A view of the river at the end of a clear day; small ripples of wave can be seen in the foreground. The trees on the river shore are visible at a distance.
Title by cataloguer. A group of students seem to be amused by what is happening. Three students among them are wearing sacks over their heads; others are holding planks and sticks. It's not clear what game they are playing.
Title taken from caption. "Trout river valley 183 W. of Nelson." Cataloguer's note: A view of a road that stretches across the valley and is surrounded by mountains. The milage post on the side of the road reads '191'. The location of the river...