Title from attached news release. Series of 12 photos showing a safety award being presented. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 (nights: WE...
Accession Number: 96-26 Descriptive Narrative: Paper cut-out in the shape of a paulownia leaf, printed in gold, black and green. Background printed on each side is a photographic reproduction of a leaf in gold and black. In the center is a...
Title from verso. Photograph of a load of gasoline drums being lowered into an umiak. Verso reads: "Four of 16. Gasoline for Pribilofs -- A slingload of gasoline-filled drums is lowered into a waiting bidar, a 40-foot canvas covered...
(5:18 min) (17 of 27) Haul Road II
Bids to build from Yukon River north were too high so Juneau said go ahead and finish it. The crew got more equipment and people and fuel. The temperature dropped to -70 degrees. Juneau kept asking --...
(5:01 min.) (11 of 24) 11 Supplying the Steward's department
Before the ship even dropped anchor, the Steward would send an order to the purchasing agent who would begin getting supplies for the next trip. Bought in large quantities. ...
(5:54 min.) (16 of 24) 16 Passengers Dropped off Father Hubbard and his assistant, Sam Levenson [?] (later mayor of Irvine, CA). They climbed Mt. Katmai. Engine room boy served as alter boy. John Ford rode the ship; he was a good enough...
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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The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
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 from caption. "(c) Winter - [Pond] Co. First aeroplane flight over Juneau, Alaska. August 16, 1920." Verso reads: "NY / Nome Black Wolf Squadron flew over [Juenau]. Pilot Kirkpatrick dropped packet for [Government]. For Mrs. Loftus - We...
Title from accompanying notes. "Flying to Mt. Bona, but Cliff can't locate it, so we dropped into to Chisana for help from guides." A red and white helicopter with N8585F and an "Atwood" logo. Two men attend to the helicopter; in the...
Title from accompanying notes. "Flying to Mt. Bona, but Cliff can't locate it, so we dropped into to Chisana for help from guides." Aerial view of mountain range and river flats near Chisana.
Title from accompanying notes. "Flying to Mt. Bona, but Cliff can't locate it, so we dropped into to Chisana for help from guides." View from inside an airplane cockpit of mountains and lakes.
Title from accompanying notes. "Flying to Mt. Bona, but Cliff can't locate it, so we dropped into to Chisana for help from guides." Aerial view of the Wrangell Mountains.
Title from verso. View of a destroyed apartment complex - the Four Seasons Apartments - in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Concrete elevator shafts are visible, on top of a pile of debris.
View of damage to buildings in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. View includes a construction vehicle, and a building that has dropped significantly.
View of a house in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes an area of dropped ground, foreground right. Basketball backboard and hoop are on the garage. Other houses are visible.