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 collection notes. View of beach, ocean and sternwheeler on right, long rectangular buildings on left. [The nearby stern wheeler reads "Milwaukee". Other boats are visible farther right. Men walk and sit along the wooden sidewalk...
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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Image shows an aerial view of the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) campus in 1938. The Agricultural Experiment Station, plowed fields and farm buildings are visible near the center of the image. Other campus buildings and...
The first beams and bracings of a truss bridge, still supported by pilings, on a frozen river. Two people are visible at right, and a third, farther down, stands near a pile driver.
Title taken from caption on Album. "On the right of way enroute Fairbanks. Oct. 5th to Dec. 16, 1919." Two dogs carrying packs are in the foreground; what appear to be two horses stand farther back.
Title taken from front. Postcard shows view of Valdez, Alaska from dock. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "Am now farther away from home than ever. Have been very busy and have not had time to write. Will write to you from time to time of...
Title taken from label on front. Winter view of men with horse drawn sleds loaded with 7000 pounds of mail at mile 351 of Alaska Engineering railroad in canyon along Nenana River, between Curry and Healy, Alaska, with dinkey (small locomotive used...
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Album caption: Construction camp near Delta. Here the party disbanded in October 1912, a small repair party covering the line to Richardson, 12 miles farther up.
View of damage to buildings along 4th (Fourth) Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Numerous stores and shops are visible. The tall building in the distance is the Mt. McKinley Apartments. Business signs on the right...