Photograph taken at noon in Barrow, Alaska on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. A military officer swears four Alaska Territorial Guardsmen (ATG) in for an assignment.
Title taken from accompanying note. "National Guardsmen loading supplies to take to stricken communities following the Alaska Earthquake 3/27/64". Seven men, dressed in warm-weather suits and bunny boots, pass boxes from one to another into the...
Title taken from verso. "National guardsmen transported by skyvan [illegible] 1960's." Writing on the airplane reads: "[Wien] Consolidated Airlines", "N4917" and "Skyvan". A small sign on the right hand corner reads "Northern Consolidated...
"Rifle practice at twenty below zero. Members of the 1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska National Guard on the rifle range during the Guard's Encampment at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Alaska guardsmen must be prepared to fight in all kinds of weather."
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Title taken from verso. "[Members of the Alaska National guard board a Wien Consolidated F-22 prop-jet at Bethel, a central staging area for the movement of nearly 700 guardsmen enroute to encampment at camp Carroll near Anchorage.] (Wien...
Title taken from caption. Two National Guardsmen armed and on duty standing near garbage can bonfire after March 27, 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from caption: "Anchorage, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. ca. March-April 1964....
Title taken from caption. View of a crane in front of the damaged J. C. Penney building in downtown Anchorage after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. Two National Guardsmen patrol nearby.
Crew gathers on deck, surrounded by crates of potatoes; wooden shipping crate in lower right corner and one in center background show "Potatoes" printed on sides