Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...
Title from image. Note continues: Purchased by Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. to provide further area for the operations. Note at bottom: Map No. 3
Showing principal improvements so far constructed by the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining...
Description of community from 1932 report: "Hyder is entirely a mining town whose growth depends upon the restoration of the value of silver. Its population is made up of about 30 families, children, and the remainder consists of prospectors;...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Title from image. Faded view of a glacier. Glacier's name given in 1890 due to its rapid melting. It receded more than 1000 yards between 1886 and 1890. It has now entirely disappeared. Photographer's number 235.
Accession Number: 98-7-197 Description: ivory; bone; sinew; carved Dimensions: L: 29.00 cm Note: ship model is possibly a representation of the steam whaler BELVEDERE, built in 1880
Netro, Hannah (maker). The case is 47" long, without fringes. The top band is 5 in. wide with solid beadwork and a white background. The main flower design is in shades of blues, reds and greens. Curved floral designs fill rest of band with brown...
Netro, Hannah (maker). The case is 47" long, without fringes. The top band is 5 in. wide with solid beadwork and a white background. The main flower design is in shades of blues, reds and greens. Curved floral designs fill rest of band with brown...
Title taken from caption. Clipping from a publication of Bishop Rowe preaching to a group of mostly, if not entirely, Native Alaskans. Items of note in the building are the ornamental lantern lighting and the magazine or newsprint wallpaper.
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Title from donor notes. Photograph of Donald Oktollik and Rowland Cox. From donor notes: "Donald Oktollik served as interpreter during sermons, for the benefit of the older people (and also younger people, mostly men, who had missed out on...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Ellen Adam standing in front of a chair. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below is Ellen Adam by a chair that I made entirely from Alaskan white birch."
Title taken from stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...