Title from indexer, caption in album: "May 12 - I had finally to shoot it again + this as it died". Photograph shows a bear after it has been shot on a snow-covered mountainside.
(5:38 min.) (04 of 27) Early work history
Left Cordova to go to school at Alaska School of Mines and Agriculture (UAF). Took civil engineering courses. By the time he had graduated, the railroads had shut down and there were only jobs in...
(5:18 min) (17 of 27) Haul Road II
Bids to build from Yukon River north were too high so Juneau said go ahead and finish it. The crew got more equipment and people and fuel. The temperature dropped to -70 degrees. Juneau kept asking --...
70 second, black & white/silent film clip of the 1935-1936 Fairbanks Ice Carnival parade. Floats and their sponsors include: a basketball team in their bus, Waechter Brothers Meat Co., Creamers Dairy, what looks like a horse drawn coach, a dog...
61 second, black & white/silent, film clip of St. Mark's as a group of boys exit the church followed by a group of girls and finally by four women and an Episcopalian minister.
08 Continue into Alaska (4:54 min.) (08 of 09)
Got some bad gas in Northway and had to drain the tanks. Finally made it into Nome, but it took two weeks. Joe Barber's plane was found a month later, and they found a trappers cabin with some...
Title by indexer. Postcard of several unidentifed buildings.
One of our sites visitors identified the building by comparing other photographs in our collection and others and states "The building being called 'unidentified' is the...
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "McKinley as viewed from Oastler Mt. (Oastler Mt. and McGonagall Mt. form McGonagall Pass). Pierre Juillerat (left), Marie Working, & Pete Haase. Note: To the right of Pete's...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: This is the ninth of thirteen sequential snap shots of the demolishing of a water tower. The water tower, which appears massive relative to the building next to it, has finally reached the ground.
Title taken from the back of the photograph. " Seal skin pokes and walrus skin swings ". Cataloguer's note: The grils are playing on the swing, as the suspended sealskin hangs overhead.
Among the indigenous people of Alaska, the seal...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia Silverfriend, age 16 (Mrs. Ocha Potter)". "An overnight visit to my broken hearted mother who could see no reason why I should give my life to save Cuba from the Spaniards. Mother threatened to...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia posing on McCarthy Creek." The trail was vague and difficult. We had to ford the stream a dozen times, not dangerous water but deep enough to reach to the knees. When we finally reached Donahoe's...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Title frame reads: "Democratic Party campaign commercial in support of jobs for Alaskans first." Campaign commercial that begins with men sitting around what looks to be a job bank smoking and playing cards. This is followed by stirring music...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "The defences of Baked Mountain Camp. Profiting by several sorry experiences, [Charles] Yori finally shored up the tents so thoroughly as to bid defiance to the winds, but it was no use. The condition of...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Charles Goodyear Hubbard II, astride his horse "Whitie", fords the Copper River followed by a pack train of three additional horses and two men. Verso: "Showing how rivers had to be crossed when Hubbard was finally in Copper River Valley and horses...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.