Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
Title taken from donor's caption. A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying. "The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, photo taken at Ponto's Road House 20 miles from Valdez. This malamute dog team held the speed record between Valdez and Fairbanks - over 400 miles in a little over 4 days."
Title taken from donor's caption. View of a Valdez commercial street with some people walking in the distance; a mountain is in the background. "Valdez was a typical, busy Alaskan town of the early pioneer days -- wide open of course. Most...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Headquarters camp. Arriving at Valdez in mid-February, we were soon on the trail to McCarthy Creek. We reached the spot I had selected for headquaters in late May, something over 90 days out of Valdez. (In...
Title from caption. Photograph of a church and belfry near Lake Bennett. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right an abandoned church of the gold rush days standing all by itself near Lake Bennet where miners stopped for some rest in their...
Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...
Notes from verso read: "Military personnel and civilians gaze from the doorway of the Switzerland Inn in Valdez. This shot was taken minutes after a sizeable aftershock which resulted in the oil tanks along the waterfront...
View of a man on a vehicle pulling an Alaska Airlines float at the Golden Days parade in Fairbanks, Alaska as spectators look on. One woman on the float is dressed as a flight attendant and another is wearing a hula skirt and leis. Wing display on...
Postcard shows Martin Itjen standing in front of the streetcar he designed, built, owned, and operated, Skagway, Alaska. From verso: "Alaska street car. Designed - built - owned - operated by Martin Itjen of the days of '98, Skagway, Alaska. The...
Title from caption. Caption reads "Along the Yukon in [the] good old days." Five men, each wearing different headgear and carrying an assortment of knives, pose while holding bottles. One of the men has a cooking pot on his head and is drinking...
Title from caption. Caption reads "[Along] the Yukon in the good old days." Five men, each wearing different headgear and carrying an assortment of knives, pose while holding bottles. The man on the far right is also holding a jug. Four of...