Title taken from front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
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.
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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Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Log cabin school, with attached accommodation for a teacher Note on verso: "Our new teacherage. Another window on the back side not shown. We know it looks homely, but give us time to fix it up and plant a few flowers this spring! Anyway, be...
Eight students pose along the fence outside the McCarthy School; according to the teacher's report in the Historical Record, McCarthy "is an outfitting point for miners, hunters, trappers, and prospectors. It started as an outgrowth of the...
Postcard caption: Mollie Walsh, the wonder girl of White Pass Trail. Alone, and without help in the winter of 1897-8 she ran a tent road-house and fed and lodged the wildest and most persistent men Alaska ever saw and remained as clean morally as...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Gold seekers in a continuous procession threading their way over a difficult course of ever winding, snow-choked canyons on the trail to the Klondike, 1898."
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "A bird's eye view of Chilkoot Pass showing the camp teeming with life and excitement in 1898. Hostile nature ever challenging man's courage on the trail of...
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