Brian Okonek talks about his introduction to outdoor activities and involvement in high school mountaineering club, exploring the Talkeetna area, meeting Dave Johnston, his trip in the Alaska Range, relationship with his dad and hopes for a...
View of Broadway Ave., then Glacier Ave., Valdez, Alaska, with houses and pedestrians, and waterfront in background. From verso: "Valdez, Broadway Ave. House in front of trees owned by Judge Brown. Later Mrs. Whitley bought it and lived there until...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Burial of Chief David of Tetlin May 17th, 1919". [From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Just after the death of the benevolent and much loved Chief David, the men and women of the village...
Ttile taken from caption; engraving faces page 699. "Canoes of Oonalashka." The engraving shows two kayaks. The top picture shows a kayak with two paddlers, each with a single-bladed paddle. The men are wearing water-proof gear and...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
Cataloguer's note: No information was attached to this photograph. It is a series of photographs documenting the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the dispersal of Soapy Smith's gang. See UAF-1976-35-69, of the J. Bernard Moore...
Title from indexer. Collection of photographs related to the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the running out of town of Soapy Smith's gang. Many of the photographs appear to be from Case & Draper. Caption reads: The tragedy...
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Description from ASL-P155-1-42 reads: Eight men pose in uniform in front of what looks to be a betting board for a dog sled race beginning in Candle and continuing through Council and Safety, ending at Cape Nome and...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...
Title taken from caption. Alan May corrects this elsewhere in his diary text: not Bering's grave but a monument erected to him 150 years after his death. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Title from donor notes. Photograph of Jim VanStone with Chrismas decorations and gifts. Additional donor notes read: "Dr. James W. VanStone spent a year, 1955-56, at Point Hope. His book, 'Point Hope: An Eskimo Village in Transition' was...