"Two generals -- It is easy enouth [enough] to recognize General Pershing, but the business-like man in flying togs talking to him is Major General Charles T. Menoher, Chief of the Air Service, just returning after...
Title from image. Photograph of a fishwheel on the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish...
Title from image. Photograph of an automatic dam releasing its water. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are 2 pictures of placer mining in the ordinary manner in creek beds. Sometimes to conserve enough water to wash the gravel...
Title from image. Photograph of gold miners shoveling dirt and gravel into a flume for washing. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are 2 pictures of placer mining in the ordinary manner in creek beds. Sometimes to conserve enough...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man in a suit standing next to a plane. The side of the plane reads: "Spokane Sun God". Other letters and numbers can be seen but are not clear enough to be read. Original size is 2.75 in. x 1.75 in.
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "NCCo. [indexer note: Northern Commercial Company] dock at St. Michael, note old river steamer boilers holding it up. Docking consists partially of ASSCo. [ indexer note: Alaska Steamship Company]...
Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Altho one might think this snap was taken in the sun, actually it was raining hard." From May's journal, dated July 26th: "Our dish washing is a very simple affair. We have not gas enough to heat hot...
Title taken from caption. Panoramic view of Mount Katmai's volcanic crater with white section in center being the crater lake as seen through notch in south rim. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska,...
Title taken from caption.
Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph of the deep end of the swimming pool with many swimmers watching another diving off the diving board. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]". At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia posing on McCarthy Creek." The trail was vague and difficult. We had to ford the stream a dozen times, not dangerous water but deep enough to reach to the knees. When we finally reached Donahoe's...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Valdez seafood processors display protest mascot during their picket at Exxon's headquarters protesting a shortage of work due to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Verso: An operating room was extemporized in one of the dormitories at the Mission, The doctor & his assistants were good enough to pose for this picture. [Anvik?]
View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa preparing for a fishing trip to Lake Kenai. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "On Sunday twenty five of the seamen and three officers hired a truck to take them to Lake Kenai for a...
View of two men walking near construction equipment, barrels, and debris at Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Tent with sign is visible in left background, man operates machinery in center background, and another man is visible near machinery at far...