[Alaska native, female, displaying facial tattoos, plus nose and lip piercings.] Bookplate from: Voyage of naval Captain Sarychev along the North-Eastern part of Siberia, the Arctic Ocean and Eastern Ocean, for eight years, attached to the...
[Alaska native, male, wearing a woven hat and displaying nose and lip piercings.] Bookplate from: Voyage of naval Captain Sarychev along the North-Eastern part of Siberia, the Arctic Ocean and Eastern Ocean, for eight years, attached to the...
[Mg] Simon Bolivar Buckner, was commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command when war broke out at air base headquarters on Amchitka Island in May 1944. General Buckner first commanded the Alaska Defense Command as a colonel in July 1940. That...
Accession Number: 98-1 Model: 4.2" Dahlgren projectile Descriptive Narrative: Explosive shell casing made of a steel (rusted); approx. 4" in diameter and 8.25" from end to end. One end is rounded, the other tapering. The rounded end has...
An aerial view of downtown Anchorage. Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took...
Captain Emmons, United States Navy, was the commanding officier of the U.S.S Ossipee and was present at the transfer ceremony of Alaska from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867.
[For complete ship's log from the voyage of the...
From back of photo: "Elmendorf AFB [Air Force Base] 5040th transportation Sq. [squadron] assists the recovery program in the Turnagain area Anchorage, following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64." Title from additional notes: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC...
From verso: "Military and civilian personnel of U. S. Engineers in Alaska at Headquarters of Alaska Defense Command, Fort Richardson, following award of the Distinguished Service medal to Col. B. B. Talley, Officer in Charge Alaska Construction,...
From: Lisianski, Urey, 1773-1837, Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern
Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. From Bartholomew's Supplement to...
Note with photo reads: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- FIRST BOX -- The first box of toys to be flown into Anchorage for distribution to needy Alaskan children displaced by the Good Friday earthquake is unloaded from an Alaska...
Note with photo reads: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Over 20 Air Force vehicles and men from Elmendorf AFB, along with a multitude of civilian volunteers spent several days shortly after the Good Friday earthquake assisting...
Photograph with the following caption attached: Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska visits the Public Roads Administration camp in Whitehorse and is photographed with the ranking officers of the North-west Command. From left: Brigadier General...