(7:29 min) (10 of 17) Exciting and scary situations
Teaching in Ft. Yukon, went to Fairbanks then headed back with heavy load. Ft. Yukon ice fogged in, headed back to Fairbanks, White Mountains were fogged in too, had to climb over top. ...
Title taken from caption. "Cadzow's Outfit Headed For Rampart House on Porcupine River About 1910. These Scows were Poled and Lined Upstream For Several Hundred Miles. Dave Wallis, Ft. Yukon, on Sweep."
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
Attached sheet states: Scene at hearing in Washington, D. C. of Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures, headed by Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska. Senator Gruening has asked the State Department and Agencey for International...
Title from verso. Image shows a sternwheeler named the "Yukon" headed up the Yukon River. Location looks like Eagle, Alaska. Smoke coming from the ship's smokestack, and several flags are visible from the top level of the boat. Passengers are...
See the numbers on the photo: 1. Tishu (Stokes) Ulen; 2. Nellie McNeal "Little Nellie ... she stayed for the summer with us." 3. Jay ?; 4. Madame Melbourne; 5. Mrs. Brown; 6....
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man and a boy in a canoe headed toward Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below are Old Jacob and a boy in an extra large canoe. They paddled fast so I could not get a picture of their faces."
Title from caption: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910: Mt. McKinley, Alaska 20,300 ft. from Explorers Peak, 9,000 ft." Postcard postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Aug. 22, 1913 and addressed to Tomie Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of a horse drawn sleigh with passengers headed from Whitehorse to Dawson. The sign in the background reads "Royal Mail Service. Canadian Development Co. Ltd."
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
(5:20 min) (07 of 19) Trip to Alaska Left on July 1. Headed for either Alaska or Buenos Aires. Drove the Old National Trail to Seattle, drove over the Mead Bridge.
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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03 More military training (3:36 min.) (03 of 09) Pearl went to Sweetwater, Texas, to train with the Women's Air Corps. She heard that there was a need for pilots in Alaska. In 1944, she headed to Fairbanks, Alaska. She got stuck in Seattle...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Moose, seen from bus carrying 1/2 of our party to our jump off point for crossing the tundra headed for McKinley."
Title taken from caption. " Snap shot of first and second ambulance from the third ambulance headed for Valdez with men wounded by Northwestern Ry. Marshals [sic] in Keystone Canyon, Sept. 25, 1907. "
Title from verso. "[This Wien bush plane takes off from a sand bar on the Kobuk river with a load of Eskimo students headed for high schools and colleges. The village of Shungnak is too small to support a high school. Shungnak, Alaska]. Wien Air...