Title taken from creator's notes. The caption reads: The fire was completely out of control. There were cleaning fluids for working on watches and weapons and once the fire reached these chemicals it was no use to fight it any longer. Notes...
Title taken from creator's notes. The caption reads: The fire was completely out of control. Threre were cleaning fluids for working on watches and weapons and once the fire reached these chemicals it was no use to fight it any...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from photograph UAF-2009-123-769, current caption in album is: "May 12 - Another nearer". Photograph shows a bear walking across a snow-covered mountainside after it was shot. This photograph completely white.
Title from caption: "Snowed in! Sled Dogs Hub Roadhouse, 20 mi. Ruby-Long Trail, Alaska." Roadhouse completely covered in snow with only the doorway visible. Two people are shown outside in the snow.
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 taken from caption. " Summer of 1966 or 1968. Frank Miller in front of his home; (Road house, store and post office). In 1972 it was all gone. Frank died a few years ago and the house is completely burned. Note: Historical location of...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: This is the eleventh of thirteen sequential snap shots of the demolishing of a water tower. The water tower, which appears massive relative to the building next to it, is almost completely turned on...
This is a view of a creek, fallen logs and branches drifting away. Additionally, the heavy fog which has completely covered the mountains, has crept low into the valley.
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- 200 yards inland -- Heavily damaged and left high and dry is a modified WWII landing barge, which was used to haul freight in the Seward, Alaska, area. Although the...
Title taken from accompanying notes. "Seward Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake and Tidal Wave 3/29/64 (Aerial Photo)". At the waterfront, railroad cars lie overturned, many far off their tracks. The tracks closest to the shore have been...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title supplied by cataloger. The same biplane as pictured in UAF-2006-102-70 & UAF-2006-102-71. Two men are completely visible; the legs of a third man can be seen through the gap between the upside down plane's body and it's wing. There is a...
"Watch Alaska! "Opportunity... "Pilots and mechanics Alaska Star airlines is growing! To keep pace with today's urgent wartime requirements and gear up for the increased passenger, mail, express and freight...
Winter & Pond postcard showing the vessel the "Princess May" completely out of the water, shipwrecked on Sentinel Island. Text on image reads "Princess May" wrecked on Sentinel Island, Alaska August 5th, 1910". Photographer's number 394. ...
View of man and woman standing next to fence by two flagpoles on mountain summit near Skagway, Alaska. From verso: "U.S. and Canadian flags on summit of White Pass, near Skagway, Alaska - international boundary of U.S. and Canada and Alaska and...