The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Two men seem to be clearing an area with the help of their horse. Large pipes, possibly for mining, lay nearby as does a large pile of brush. Photos UAF-1985-122-110 to UAF-1985-122-121 seem to be of the same people about...
Title by indexer. Cartoon panel depicts a man trying to get his stuck car out of a muddy road; around him, others watch, and one says to another, "Why don't some of us help him? Help him wot fur? That's the Road Commissioner!" (The 'er' in...
Verso: Alaska's William Randolph Hearst Scholars--Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) congratulates (left), Loren Leman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Leman of Ninilchik and Tom Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson of Anchorage who were chosen...
Caption: "Governor Bill Quinn accepts the Alaska State Flag from Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening while Senator Gruening visits Hawaii on a trip to help with Hawaiian Statehood." The man on the left resembles, but is not, Ernest Gruening.
Signed "Yelnats 3-[26]-26". This is apparently clipped from a magazine or book. A driver, car in a river, calls to another person standing in the river with a shovel: "Say, could ya give...
Johnson Moses in Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital in Fort Yukon where he was recovering from TB. He is showing a model of a dogsled and fish trap. He made these models to help...
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]. ...
(3:36 min) (02 of 19) Young adult #1 Got a job CB& Q railroad working on a coal chute. Next, had to wipe the locomotives down. Went to help Uncle thresh grain. Went home to shuck corn and went north.
(4:32 min.) (07 of 24) 07 Steward section
Sometimes so short of help he was able to get 16 hours and more overtime. During the off season, did painting and carpentry for the company.
(4:48 min.) (09 of 24) 09 Food and health on-board the ship Beef served frequently and caused complaints. Sometimes it was the waiter's fault, sometimes it was the traveler's fault, and sometimes it was the sea. The nurse had to help lots...
(4:53 min.) (10 of 24) 10 Main job of the Steward was in the dining room and the cabins Steward had to deal with the people, had to do the ordering, had to balance all the overtime. On the "North Sea" had to print up the menus. Had to sit...
70 second film clip, color/silent, of fishing near Deering, Alaska. A man and a boy in a small rowboat set the net and haul it in. People on shore help pull it in and pick the fish out.
59 second, color/silent film clip. Clip shows two weasel amphibious vehicles in use. One gets stuck in a creek and needs help getting out. One of the tracked vehicles loses its track while in the river and some repair work is done.
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from caption. "Santa Claus' sixth annual visit to Hall's Book store Fairbanks, Alaska December 25, 1909. Hand colored." Indexer's note: Santa Claus found his way to Fairbanks to help the children celebrate Christmas.
Greeting card from the Alaska Highway Patrol's 3rd Division showing the heads of the officers. Images are placed a drawing of a totem pole and identified by last name. Card reads: We "totem" help on highways, we "totem" tickets, oh! just a few...
Title taken from caption. "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."
World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...