Title taken from verso. The following is from a caption attached to the back of the photograph: "As a Twenty-eight-year-old graduate student in 'human geography,' Don Charles Foote traveled to Point Hope under an AEC research contract. For...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
Taut cables or ropes come from the tops of the girders that will form the bridge's truss. There appear to be three people here: one high up on a girder (left), and two below on the bridge...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Title from verso. Verso: Boys of the Farthest North Confederate Detachment and their dates from the University of Alaska here pictured celebrating Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday on the campus are, left to right, Joan Berry of Haines, Paul Hunter...
Verso: Award of $1,000 defense bond is here being presented by Sen. Ernest Gruening to 14-yr. old Grant B. Walt[h]er, Anchorage high school student, as 1st prize in a national science contest. Grant's father, Harold V. Walther (Left) was present,...
Two mushers outside two log cabins at Yankee Creek. George Glass, his seventeen year old son Ophir, and Irving Reed traveled by dog sled for 14 days from Wasilla to Yankee Creek in late March 1920. Reed described this...
Photograph of the Fairbanks riverfront with several businesses visible. Seen here are a portion of the N.C. Company warehouse, Manders Store and Drug, Northern Hotel, Shaw House and Golden's Grocery.
Title from caption. Image shows two yaks standing before a wooden fence. A farm building is visible in the background. The U.S. Experimental Farm depicted here became the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Alaska Agricultural College and...
Title from verso. Full caption on the verso reads, "Here are the Yak. They crossed them with Galloways trying to produce an animal for beef that would winter in the open. Results were disappointing. Meat tough as - ---." Image shows...
Title from caption. Photo also bears the inscription "Goetzman." Image shows people standing on a riverbank. Buildings can be seen higher up the bank on the left side of the image. Two steamers with smokestacks and two barges can be...
Title from caption. Image shows a ditch used to transport water to a mining location. Eureka was a mining settlement established south of Rampart between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers. A telegraph station called "Glenn" was installed here in...
Title from caption. Image shows a ditch used to transport water to a mining location. Eureka was a mining settlement established south of Rampart between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers. A telegraph station called "Glenn" was installed here in...
"And the last one here, number 15. Yea that was that borrowed DC-3, it was destined for Pan American's China facility, China National Airline, but we had use of it to operate a few trips over through British Columbia to prove it was...
"And this is number 6, and we have a number of pilots here. Yea that was a group of pilots that flew the navy contract operation out the Aleutians during WWII.
Description from interview with Ralph Savory and his daughter, Diane.
Shows Northwestern America and the northeastern tip of Asia, including an enormous and prominent false "Mer l'Ouest" as well as a clear North West Passage; based on the rare De L'Isle map which supposedly chronicled the discoveries of one "Admiral...
Two men with a woman holding a camera are photographed here with another man behind them. The people identified are Howard Rock on the left and the woman is identified as Laverne Madegan. The man on the right is identified only as Fergus.
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...