Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "April 6 -- Transportation vehicles ranging from dog sleds to military aircraft were used by the American Red Cross in transporting emergency relief supplies and personnel into Alaskan...
Title taken from accompanying note. "National Guardsmen loading supplies to take to stricken communities following the Alaska Earthquake 3/27/64". Seven men, dressed in warm-weather suits and bunny boots, pass boxes from one to another into the...
Title from verso. "[Nearly everybody meets the plane. The arrival of Wien Consolidated Airlines aircraft at bush station is an event. It brings mail, freight, visiting relatives, government travelers and an occasional tourist who takes the bush...
The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Undated photograph of one of the Canadian Pacific Railway's coastal steamers, which provided passenger service to coastal communities for 80 years; PRINCESS MARGUERITE was built for the Triangle Run between between Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria
These two volumes illustrate an 1897 expedition up the Taku River by members of the Yukon Mining, Trading and Transport Company in the summer of 1897. The expedition was led by P.I. Packard who proposed to build a railroad to Dawson via the Taku...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Description on back in Russian with English translation: The very first church in Juneau, where all Christian communities too turns holding services. Built by Roman Catholic priests. Later passed into Presbyterian ownership. Afterward beer and soda...
Moody's Fuel barge docked up in Igiugig. Moody's barge wasonw of the few barges that delivered fuel oil and gasoline and other goodies to communities when the water in the Kvichak river was high.