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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08 Continue into Alaska (4:54 min.) (08 of 09)
Got some bad gas in Northway and had to drain the tanks. Finally made it into Nome, but it took two weeks. Joe Barber's plane was found a month later, and they found a trappers cabin with some...
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from album. "Return bend, Noyes Slough Fairbanks, Alaska." Indexer's note: A letter on the back reads: Fairbanks, Alaska Dec. 12 1916 My Dear Edith, Just received your letter of October 30. Will write letter before...
Title from accompanying notes. "4 April. Pete, Terry (he helped Cliff find the Russell Glacier), Hat, and the Super Cub on the morning Cliff, Hat & I continue on to the Russell Glacier." Three men in front of a red and white airplane,...
Interior shot of the South Seas bar and dance room, Anchorage. A thatched roof supported by bamboo poles hangs over the bar giving the feeling of being in a grass hut. Cane barstools and chairs continue the South Pacific theme. Original photograph...
Title taken from caption. A sign posted on a home after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. The notice reads: City of Anchorage Building Department. Notice is hereby given that it is unlawful to occupy ... of this building, located at Number ......
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from front. View of new generator installed after fire destroyed power plant, Anchorage, Alaska. Two locomotives provide power at right, crane visible at left, and men continue construction in center. Also from front: "Power furnished...
Title from album note Additional information from album: The Treadwell, "700," and Mexican mines were all flooded, building up air pressure, which exploded the Mexican shaft house; the Ready Bullion mine was protected by a newly constructed...
Title from verso notes Notes continue: Parlor one end and kitchen the other end of same room Young Trowbridge girl sits on right; wood stove on left; couch in background
The history, beginning with primitive Alaska Eskimo life, includes some "book facts," personal anecdotes, and stories told by others. It describes life in the northern regions from early times until ca. 1937-1940 when the history was written. ...
Postcard caption: Mollie Walsh, the wonder girl of White Pass Trail. Alone, and without help in the winter of 1897-8 she ran a tent road-house and fed and lodged the wildest and most persistent men Alaska ever saw and remained as clean morally as...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...