Title supplied by cataloger. Anchorage city street full of automobiles. Mount McKinley Apartments in distance. Banner reads, 'Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Fun for All, All for Fun.' Chugach Mountains in background. Slide backwards. Original format:...
View looking east down Fourth Avenue from F Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Sign across street in foreground reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for fun. Fun for all." Sign across street in background reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Businesses...
Title taken from caption. View of fur pelts hanging at either side of sign for Anchorage Fur Rendezvous and people in street in Anchorage, Alaska. Mount McKinley Apartments are in far left background. Sign reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for...
A shaggy track meet which drew everyone in the vicinity. A great day of fun for onlookers as well as participants. Bea Kahl standing at the right. People are sitting on the steps of the teacherage. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller.
John Jacobson, Martha Stowell, and two unidentified men unloading lumber from a trailer on a USO outing. From caption: "Fire Lake - the USO wanted to buy an old cabin on the lake and we spent several weekends on spring working hard to fix it up. ...
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...
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: Everyone enjoyed a fun day on the solid ice on the Chena riverbed in downtown Fairbanks. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
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Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
Title from verso. "Main street of Anchorage, Alaska 4th Avenue. Summer 1953." A large street banner reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for fun, fun for all. Anchorage Community Chorus and Act Inc. Aug 17 thru 22. Down in the Valley."
Title taken from caption. View of table set for celebration with coffee pot, candles, silverware, and cake in Anchorage, Alaska. Event is described by Beulah Marrs (later Beulah Marrs Parisi) as "one of a series of state night events designed to...
Title from caption. Photograph of the tennis team. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right our tennis team visiting at Quincy during a tournament. This team won the county high school championship. I did all coaching in the school. Lots...
Physical description: 13 pages, handwritten on yellow legal-sized sheets. Places mentioned: Auk Bay (Alaska) ; Auk Village (Alaska) ; Berners Bay (Alaska) ; Cape St. Elias (Alaska) ; Douglas (Alaska) ; Douglas Island (Alaska) ; Fairheaven...
Editorial cartoon commenting on the problems with gaining statehood for Alaska in the 1920's. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska .22".]