Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man buying something in a store. The salesman behind the counter is Tom Duerre. Boxes of products can be seen behind the counter. A sign on the counter shows the price of various cookies and sweets. A...
Title taken from caption. Crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris holding a bald eagle he'd shot. From May's journal, dated June 19th: "Some of the boys from the Morris came ashore to hunt eagles, but only one of them was successful. The...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
(6:00 min.) (25 of 28) 25. Licensed for DC-3; return to Alaska
George and Bill Conrad discusssed how he'd do the flight. He made it through the testing. George went back to New York and then flew to Fairbanks. The flying was bad on the...
Title taken from caption. From image: "S-134 A Steamer at Columbia Glacier, Alaska." Verso: "March 21. We are now in Ketchikan: arrived about noon. Rachel & Stevie are fine. R. manages to keep me just about worn out. I have to follow her round...
Photo of a man standing outside in front of a crate, looking at something he's holding in his hands. Another crate and a sack are to his left. This man appears to the be same man in UAF-1995-260-39.
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...
Photo of a young native boy standing by the side of the Yukon with pelts hanging up behind him. He's dressed up in a blazer and a loose tie around his collar. Postcard is postmarked from Tanana, Alaska on April 11,...
Written on verso, "Basil Edwin Clemons is on left." Basil is older here, showing grey in his beard and sideburns. He's wearing a newsboy hat and is holding a wrapped package in his right arm. Exact date unknown. Basil...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
(5:30 min.) (12 of 28) 12. Next assignment
George drove to Seattle in a car he'd built. In Colorado, the engine caught fire. He made temporary repairs. He had to follow trucks that cut through the snow before him. A woman ran him off the...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Equipment left at McGonagall Pass by Bradford Washburn in the 1940s. He's perhaps the world's foremost expert on Mt. McKinley, and was a member of the 3rd expedition to...
Title from accompanying notes. "Shige (aka "Camera") at Camp 1. He's their photographer." Portrait of a man in plaid shirt, with a red hat and snow goggles.