Title from verso. Photograph of military supplies with a signpost reading "hard work will win the war" and "2640 miles to tokio" Verso reads: "A signpost shows what's on the mind of these fighting men. From this base Americans can keep...
Title from verso. Two men stand with tents along a ridge on Amchitka Island. Verso reads: "Silhouetted against leaden sea and sky, two American servicemen stand on the snow-covered ground of Amchitka Island occupied jointly by Army and...
Title from verso. Photo of men and equipment landing on Amchitka Island. Verso reads: "As the first wave of landing boats sweeps in to the rocky beach on Amchitka, troops and cargo await transportation ashore. The U.S. landing on the...
Title from verso. Photograph of planes ready to go on a bombing run on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "American war planes are all set to have a go at Japs [ Japanese ] on Kiska, only 63 miles away from them on this new landing field...
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 verso. View of snow drifted on roof tops by wind at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with clothes hanging on line at right and sled at left. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Gold seekers in a continuous procession threading their way over a difficult course of ever winding, snow-choked canyons on the trail to the Klondike, 1898."