Aerial view of docks and military post area, Shemya, Alaska. From front: "2CS4MA - Shemya Alaska. 33-7-16-1500-12-100000 - Docks & post area (secret)." From information with photo: "Shemya, Alaska. Docks and post area (secret). Breakwaters and...
View of the docks at Kodiak, Alaska. Coming down the harbor to the docks is the USS Surveyor. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1919.
View of Santa Clara at Fourth Avenue dock in Seward, Alaska. Flat car on rail tracks being loaded. From front: "Seward." 1905-1915. Original photograph size 3 1/4" x 5 1/8".
Title from caption. Photograph shows men unloading machinery from a barge on June 25, 1917, in Nenana, Alaska. Caption also reads: "No. 41. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of loading a boat onto flatbed railroad cars for transport to Whitehorse. Boat is named Happy Hooligan after the Simons & Blakes vaudeville outfit which arrived in Skagway on May 17, 1905. Caption...
Title from verso. Photograph of the launch "Pioneer" loading oil at Katalla, Alaska. Lettering on the ship reads "Pioneer Tacoma." A storage tank is visible at the far right. Verso reads: Launch Pioneer loading oil at Chilcat Oil...
Title taken from caption. "9065 -- (1) In the summer of 1897 our Uncle Samuel began to discern what a bonanza he had bought from Russia 30 years before. From Sitka to Siberia the vast country seems to glitter with gold. There is said to be...
Title taken from caption. "9355 -- (3) The two oldest transportation companies operating on the Yukon are the Alaskan Commercial Company and the North American Trading & Transportation Company. They are located on the little harbor about a...