Title from caption in album: "July 27 - McKinley in clouds - base visible Foothills just west of Peters Glacier Photograph shows a landscape of hilly tundra leading to mountains in the distance.
Title from caption in album: "July 27 - Foothills of McKinley - East from slopes of McKinley". Photograph shows a dry riverbed, looking up a valley towards mountains.
Title from caption in album: "July 27 - Foothills across Peters Glacier from slopes of McKinley". Photograph shows a valley with a river running through it. This photograph has been taken from a mountainside overlooking the valley....
Title from caption in album: "July 27 - Mountain foothills just north McKinley of its East slopes". Photograph shows a valley with a river running through it. This photograph has been taken from a mountainside overlooking the valley....
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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View of Alaska Department of Highways sign for Wrangell Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Wrangell Mountains. The mountains as viewed to the east are, left to right: Mt. Sanford, 16,210 feet, 52 miles...
Sweeping view of bend in Iditarod River, with the town of Iditarod between the curve of the river and the foothills behind; higher mountains in distance Photographer's number 867
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.