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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Title by indexer, taken from verso. Verso reads: "Bonfire, fall 1928, left Marion Boswell, right Olga Strandberg." Image shows two young women standing by piles of kindling that are arranged in a teepee shape for burning. Behind the women...
Title by indexer. Image shows man in a topcoat and hat standing on a large boulder at the top of a waterfall. Photo is taken from below, near the bottom of the fall. Large spruce trees are visible beside the fall. Location in unknown. ...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title taken from caption. "A section of the ash fall showing differential weathering between first and second layers." View of a mining pick to give scale to the depth of the ash that has fallen in two separate layers. Photo taken at what was later...
View of the ore sorting plant to the right of the photo and the 2000-level water tunnel under construction at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. Fall 1940.
View of B.A. "Tony" Wickstrom and his rebuilt "old" mill on the site of the earlier Martin mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. The mill burned to the ground early in 1941. Fall 1940.
View of the new mill, powerhouse, and workshops at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. Photographer's number 35. Fall 1938. Photographer: Hewitt.
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.
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...