The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. View of J.W. Shipley, the expedition chemist, walking across a tree over a gully in the mudflow. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic Society expedition about to cross a snow bridge over a gully near Novarupta in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Caption also says: "A snow...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 22 - Bear where it died - many sheep in herd-". Photograph shows the tundra-covered slope of a mountain with a rocky ridge. A dead bear can be seen lying in a gully in the foreground.
Title from caption in album: "Aug 26 - Heart of sheep ranges up east fork". Photograph shows a rocky mountainside. A mound of old snow sits in a gully on the mountainside.
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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Photograph by Alphonse Kemmerich, in the early 1930's. The photo shows the staff housing (left) and fish hatchery building (on right) at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries fish hatchery on Lake McDonald, near Yes Bay, Alaska. The hatchery was always...