Title taken from caption. View of the Bunker Building in Whittier, Alaska. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182. For Lease -- The Army Port of...
Title taken from caption. View of four military personnel on an ice slope during a training exercise in Alaska. From verso: "First Sgt. Alexander Bjornstal demonstrates to Pvt. First Class Jimmy Flores how to stop a slide down an ice slope by...
Title taken from caption. View of people along 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska. The street is roped off and covered with snow in preparation for one of the dogsledding events held during the Fur Rendezvous. The lead dogs for one of the teams are...
View of town buildings at Unalaska, Alaska with American flag flying on pole near harbor at far right. From verso: "Harbor - Unalaska." 1910-1920. Identified as old Alaska Commercial Company compound at site of original area called Dutch Harbor...
Title taken from caption. View of musher wearing numbered bib with dog team at start of Fur Rendezvous sled dog races on 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska. Truck with dog kennels in back is visible at left, and people and other vehicles are in...
Title taken from caption. View of bagpipers and drummers in band wearing kilts in Fur Rendezvous parade in Anchorage, Alaska. Onlookers are visible in background and in foreground. Signs on buildings in background read: "[Kennedy] Hardware,"...
Cyanotype photograph of Mapoy (also known as Martha), a Dena'ina woman who later became wife of Arthur McConahay, Alaska Commercial Company agent, at Knik Station on Cook Inlet. She is depicted here with three of her children: Mary, left; Martha,...
Cyanotype photograph of Mapoy (also known as Martha), a Dena'ina woman who later became wife of Arthur "Long Shorty" McConahay, an Alaska Commercial Company agent at Knik Station, and her three children, with the Alaska Native wife of Harry H....
Photograph shows a group of veterans in civilian clothes marching through downtown Anchorage in the 1940 4th of July parade. Two men, one carrying the U.S. flag, the other an Alaska state flag, lead the veterans. Spectators stand in front of...
Interior view of a DC-3 loaded with approximately 200 pigs being transported to Anchorage, Alaska as part of the first commercial shipment of livestock to Anchorage directly from another country. From caption in newspaper article: "These little...
A view of the front of the Girdwood Hotel. From verso: "Prop[r]ietors Ayers and Whitney. Beverly Staser in picture. Gene's Restaurant on left, Gene `The Frenchman' was long dead by 1956." The commercial signs on the front of the hotel read (top to...
View of airplanes and man and woman dressed as pilot and flight attendant on Wien Air Alaska float in Golden Days parade in Fairbanks, Alaska. Float was judged winner in commercial float category. Sign on float reads: "1st in Alaska's future."...
Father and son Noel and Merrill Wien stand in front of Wien Air Alaska Cessna 185, possibly in Fairbanks, Alaska. From information with photo: "Noel Wien, noted for his contributions to Alaska's aviation history over the past years, stands with his...
Title taken from verso. View of commercial slide for television station KFIA advertising Idle Hour Country Club in Anchorage, Alaska. Dec. 22, 1953. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of cars parked on street and businesses in Mountain View area of Anchorage, Alaska. Signs on buildings read: "Mode O-Day" (dress shop) and "Caribou's Dept. Store." Also from verso: "For City National Bank." From...
Men loading frozen reindeer carcasses on wagon for transporting to floatplane at U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex, Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska, with others looking on and conveyor belts running over head. From information with photo:...
Alaska Native mask made at Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, with figures of fish and hand. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W. Wells, Anchorage,...
Reindeer herd in U.S. Government Reindeer Project corral at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska, with coastline in background. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau...