Caption: Washington-- Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett greets Army Second Lt. and Mrs Terrance P. McLean, formerly of Nome, at his Washington office which the couple visited shortly after McLean was commissioned at Ft. Lee, Petersburg, Virginia. ...
Sheldon and Lorena Turner -- Alaskan Survey Expedition Collection contains forty photographs and 1 report relating to the 1932 Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition. The report, "The Land of the Williwaw," was written by Lieutenant R. H. Harrell,...
Title taken from caption. "Jim VanStone later commissioned and published as a monograph an autobiographical account written by Luke Koonook while he was for a time laid up with an injury [broke an arm, possibly?] and thus couldn't hunt."
Photograph of the USS Juneau at dry dock. Probably just prior to commissioning. The USS Juneau was sunk just after the battle of Guadalcanal, only 10 of her crew survived. Five of the dead from this ship were the Sullivan...
View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Both the Spencer and Ariadne were waiting offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) for the seas to subside so that they...
Title taken from label on matting. View of five totem poles in front of curio shop in Juneau, Alaska, with men standing next to largest pole and car parked in front of building. Signs on building read: "The Nugget Shop", "Nugget Apts.", and...
View from shore of USCGC GLACIER, prior to being painted red; 310-foot icebreaker, commissioned in 1955 and decommissioned in 1987; three people silhouetted on shore
One of the U.S. Navy's first class of fast, light cruisers, the CL-10 U.S.S. CONCORD was commissioned November 1923; during World War II, she joined the Northern Pacific Force and was decommissioned December 1945