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.
View of parade during 4th of July celebrations, Valdez, Alaska, with floats and marchers. Businesses shown include Arctic Store, C.C. Rudolph, Builder & Supplies, and Second Hand Store. From front: "Valdez, Alaska. July 4, [19]11." From verso:...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission construction crew passing and laying railroad ties by hand during railroad construction in Anchorage, Alaska, with horse at right. Also from front: "Is that O'Reily? Laurence. A.E.C. No....
Title taken from front. View of piles of steel to be used in construction of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G335." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G335. March 1,...
Title taken from caption. View of H.M. Wallace holding a swan that he shot in one hand and the Remington he used to shoot it in the other hand. Caption also says: "H.M. Wallace. A swan and the Remington automatic." Photo taken in what was later...
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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Title taken from back of photo. . "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- AIRLIFT IN ACTION -- An Air Force Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C97 from the California Air National Guard is swiftly unloaded of supplies brought to...
Title supplied by cataloger. Airplane wreckage being pulled from snow. Men appear to be digging around a large part of a wrecked plane. Photo identification markings are visisble in bottom right hand corner appear to read, in Russian, "Foto -...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Portrait of Alice & Jennie." This is an image of a framed photograph. Jennie is sitting; her daughter Alice, (about age six) is standing close with one hand extended, holding her mother's hand. [They are the...
Shows Russian America and the western part of British possessions in what is now Canada. Relief shown by hachures. In top margin: Geografia Commerciale. Prime meridian: Ferro. No publication date, however, details of the outline of the north...
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Includes decorative cartouche. Inset: Partie nord ouest de l'Amerique. "Publiee en 1750 et corrigee en 1775, par le S. Robert de Vaugondy." Inset shows one of the latest of the many variations of...
View of a man amid rubble in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. In his right hand, man holds a can of Franco American Spaghetti. Can in other hand is obscured. Boxes and cans of food litter the floor.
Title taken from caption. View of members of the Anchorage Ski Club with their luggage and ski equipment boarding a train in front of the Curry Hotel in Curry, Alaska. There is also a dog resting beside a pile of equipment on the right hand side of...