Title taken from front. View of boats on Fifty Mile River, part of Yukon River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Photographer's number 709. 1898? Possible photographer: E. A. Hegg? Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Title from image caption Different types of boats traveling downriver, including many small boats with sails; a small sternwheeler tows a laden scow and another boat Photographer's number 709
Title from verso. Photograph of an oil rig and its reflection.
Verso reads: Oil rig of the Alaskamber Oil Company on Mirror Slough, Bering River Oil Fields, Alaska. The well is down 300 feet. Work is being carried on at present---July...
Descriptive Narrative: Playing cards (all original 52) and leather case. White Pass & Yukon Route. Different scenes.
History: Gift of Caryl Sale Krug and John W. Krug, 1998. Collected by William W. Sale and Neeta Tobey Sale, residents of Nome,...
Title from photo album. Photograph of Lawyer Rivenburg in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "These canoes weigh but fifty to sixty pounds and are from fifteen to eighteen feet long and about eighteen inches to two feet...
Title from caption. Photograph of a children's lawn party with Bennie, Edith and Francis and their mother, Mrs. Moore, identified. Caption reads:>"Birthday Party at extreme left marked with X -- my daughter Frances, near centre my daughter...
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 taken from caption. "The Anchorage school house, a three-story structure, having all modern improvements. Both a day and a night school are maintained; the day school consists of seven teachers and approximately 300 students, and the...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A colossal structure made of firewood, crates, lumber, tires and other flammable materials, stands at least fifty feet above ground. It appears as thought this is a carefully constructed bonfire....
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 donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.