Clipping from a publication with the caption: This picture is taken fron the rear. The hills in the distance are on the other side of the Tanana River. Tortella Hall is to the right, and the new woodshed and workroom is seen in the center of the...
From verso: "Military and civilian personnel of U. S. Engineers in Alaska at Headquarters of Alaska Defense Command, Fort Richardson, following award of the Distinguished Service medal to Col. B. B. Talley, Officer in Charge Alaska Construction,...
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Reindeer meat drying at Gambel, Alaska, St. Lawrence Island. Visible behind the meat rack are two buildings one of which is eight sided and reminiscent of Siberian tents (yurts) and Russian forts (Redoubts).
Signal Corps photo number SC 140008. Verso: Col. William O. Eareckson of the 11th Provisional Bombing Command, who received the Distinguished Service Cross, is writing a message on a bomb destined for the Japs on the Island of Kiska. Umnak...
Title by cataloguer. A view of fur seals at the sea. Male Fur Seal is approximately seven feet long and weights about six hundred pounds. The female on average is five feet and weighs about three hundred pounds. A pup weighs ten pounds at...
Mrs. William (Kitty) Sibley and her son Billy Sibley. "She's an Eskimo Lady... she's married." Being "married" is distinguished from just living with a white man and saying...
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...
Title from verso. "Russians and Americans in chow line at Ladd Fields. US Army Air Corps official photograph." The sign hanging above reads, "No smoking in mess line". The Russians can be distinguished from the Americans by their distinct...