(4:14 min.) (07 of 08) 7. Population dislocation. Average person in Anchorage has lived here less than five years, only came to take advantage of the money, and plans to retire elsewhere. The less educated people raised in rural Alaska...
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Image appears to be identical to uaa-hmc-0166-b1-85-8-1. The caption for that image reads: "Guerin's pack train starting for Demarcation Point along the Arctic beach. August 1, 1912." Guerin is identified elsewhere in the album as Watt Guerin,...
Mary Orok English - Tishu's mother - left (also the mother of Bill English, the Wien Air and now Alaska Airlines executive, and Tishu's half-brother). Susie McNeal - right....
See the numbers on the photo: 1. Tishu (Stokes) Ulen; 2. Nellie McNeal "Little Nellie ... she stayed for the summer with us." 3. Jay ?; 4. Madame Melbourne; 5. Mrs. Brown; 6....
Title from donor notes. Photograph of an earthmover on the beach near Point Hope. Additional donor notes read: "This 1958 [?] attempt at constructing an airstrip -- a project planned elsewhere with no local consultation -- was frustrated...
Title from verso. Photograph of a young woman from Savoonga. The photo has been marked for cropping. Verso reads: "Seattle, Wash. -- The Coast Guard Cutter, Northwind, "battle-scarred" veteran of polar region expeditions, recently...
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 taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Guerin's pack train starting for Demarcation Point along the Arctic beach. August 1, 1912." Guerin is identified elsewhere in the album as Watt Guerin, topographer.
Title taken from verso. View of Trans-Alaska Pipeline raised above road to allow homesteader property access near Willow Lake in Southcentral Alaska, with woman walking under pipeline. Also from verso: "... elsewhere pipe was raised or buried to...