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.
(6:10 min.) (11 of 27) Denali, Nenana and Taylor Roads Why was Denali road built? Pressure was to get road access to McKinley Park. Road to Nenana was put in because, due to people of Nenana, the city was able to get right of way for entire...
Caption: "Mile 33 1/2, Route 4K, Fbks dist 7/22/37". A car, followed by either a pickup truck or a flatbed trailer, is stopped at the side of the rode; a person is standing at the car's open door. A crack, possibly...
Title from verso. Photograph of troops U. S. Army troops landing on the beach of one of the Aleutian Islands. Verso reads: United States Army Troops with Navy support have occupied the Andreanof Island Group in the Aleutians, only 125...
Title from verso. Photograph of a grounded and burning ship after a raid on Dutch Harbor during World War II. Verso reads: "The battered SS Northwestern continued to smoke long after the Jap [ Japanese ] raiders left Dutch Harbor. The...
(8:13 min.) (09 of 12) Battle on Attu Took company of engineers to a ridge --walked back in the dark--connected with another unit--Japanese followed their path and attacked--Screamed "mitsui?"--Many G. I.'s killed--Capt. killed--Japanese got...
(3:21 min.) (12 of 27) Road to Livengood Road to Livengood followed miners. Livengood to Eureka began with pressure from the miners as well as a dream to get the road to Nome or Kotzebue.
Title from verso. Aerial photograph of Seward, Alaska showing damage following the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. Full caption from verso reads: "HQ AAC -- END OF The LINE -- Rail lines and a fuel tank farm suffered almost complete...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
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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47 second, black & white/silent, film clip of someone painting and sealing a boat. This is followed by views of boats on Harding Lake including a canoe, a motor boat, a row boat and a sail boat. It is possible that most of these are the same boat...
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.
07 Followed the lend-lease path (6:32 min.) (07 of 09)
Back then you had to check in with customs every time you stopped. Margaret met up with two others bound for Alaska (Major Ware and Joe Barber), and they figured to save money by taking the...
Title taken from caption. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...
Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...
Title taken from caption. "11550 The Village of St. Michaels is located upon the northeastern portion of an island of the same name, and is one of the oldest of the Russian outposts in Alaska. Here, passengers and freight are transferred from...
Title taken from caption. The buildings identified on the back of the photograph are as follows: The Men's Dormitory is located on the very right. The building with the flag is the main College; the small building in front of it is identified...
Title by cataloguer. This view is reminiscent of "Killing Fur Seals," and other images depicted by Henry Wood Elliott (1846 - 1930). In this picture a group of men are seen in the process of killing the fur seals.
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...