Title from verso. Image shows a large log building with a tiled roof in construction near a forest. Windows and doors are not installed. A pile of lumber sits on the ground on the right side of the image while giant spools are visible on the...
Title from caption. Photo also bears the inscription "Goetzman." Image shows people standing on a riverbank. Buildings can be seen higher up the bank on the left side of the image. Two steamers with smokestacks and two barges can be...
Title taken from verso. On verso a letter from the Public Information Division of the United States Coast Guard, dated 14 November 1948, is printed. The letter says the following about this photo: "Offical U.S. Coast Guard Photo. United...
Title from caption. Image shows a ditch used to transport water to a mining location. Eureka was a mining settlement established south of Rampart between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers. A telegraph station called "Glenn" was installed here in...
Title from caption. Image shows a ditch used to transport water to a mining location. Eureka was a mining settlement established south of Rampart between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers. A telegraph station called "Glenn" was installed here in...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Engraved for the People's Publishing Co, Chicago, Ill." Page 95. Map does not include Nome or other towns established during the gold rush. North portion of S. America on verso. In color.
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 indexer. Photograph shows an airplane with pontoons on a river. It is sitting in front of a bridge, people are walking on a bridge. The bridge appears to be the Cushman Street Bridge.
Title from image. Photograph of an Indian village near Dawson. This village has been identified as "Moosehide" by Susan Parsons, Collection Manager of Tr'ondek Hwech'in. "A south looking view of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in village of Moosehide,...
Photograph of Marines in trenches during an air raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "America's west coast was threatened when Japan staged a surprise attack on Dutch Harbor, the U. S. Naval Base at the tip of Alaska. Here U. S. Marines are...
Included in this collection are pictures of the Rodebaughs, Noel and Ralph Wien, A.A. Bennett, Ed Hudson and Fred Mueller. There are also images of the various planes flown in Alaska during this era of newfound commercial aviation and notable...
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.
The following is the text on...
Title taken from caption. "9212 -- (16) In this view we have a combination of grocery store, postoffice, laundry, and hay and grain warehouse, as well as a Miner's Exchange. Mr. Courtney, the proprietor, was fortunate in having with him his...
"An unusual record of achievement has been established by eight native Alaskans, who were graduated August 10 by the RCA Institutes in New York. Members of a pilot group, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they scored a notable success in...
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...
Title taken from caption. " Fort Liscum shot toward water. " Cataloguer's note: The fort was named in honor of Colonel Emerson H. Liscum. It was established in 1900 in order to maintain law and order in the growing gold-rush industry and also...
Title taken from caption. " Fort Liscum, shed, shot towards mountains." Cataloguer's note: The fot was named in honor of Colonel Emerson H. Liscum. It was established in 1900 in order to maintain law and order in the growing gold-rush industry...
Title taken from caption. " Fort Liscum towards mountains." Cataloguer's note: Fort Liscum shot toward water. " Cataloguer's note: The fort was named in honor of Colonel Emerson H. Liscum. It was established in 1900 in order to maintain law and...
In 1949 the Alaska statehood committee was established and preparation for the drafting of the state constitution began. On November 8 1955, fifty five elected delegates from all over the state met in the Constitution Hall at the University of...
Title taken from accompanying note. "[Sign for Utkeagvik Presbyterian Church, established 1898 (Barrow & N.A.R.L., 1973); photo has negative]." Two pieces of what may be whale bone support a sign, itself carved in bone.