Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. The breeding distributions of the northern Thick-billed Murre and the more temperate Common Murre overlap broadly in this region. The two closely related species are about equally abundant...
Title taken from creator's notes. The notes read: "If you overlap slide 30 and slide 28 (1999-204-112 and 110) you can see that it is a continuation to the west down the street at Ladd Field. However, Cecil is not able to identify the...
Title from caption: "Big Gerstle River Bridge - Alaska Hwy., Alaska."
View of trestle bridge over Gerstle River, along Alaska Highway. According to Alaska Statute 35.40.085, "Bridge number 503 on the Alaska Highway over the Gerstle River...
Manuscript map, in ink, with place names in the Inupiaq language. Place names are generic, e.g., "Big Bay," and exact identification of location has not been possible; however, the coast as it appears on the map is suggestive of the irregular...
Title from caption. Photograph of six men and a woman (center) standing behind boxes of gold packed for shipping. Their weapons are evident. Cataloger's note: Image is salvaged from an original P.S. Hunt glass plate. The caption at the...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "A celebratory dinner was held amid the tool displays at Rotman's general store/restaurant/hotel (Bishop Gordon at head of table, Al Reiners's wife Joanne at right). Having a second...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "A celebratory dinner was held amid the tool displays at Rotman's general store/restaurant/hotel (Bishop Gordon at head of table, Al Reiners's wife Joanne at right). Having a second...
Relief shown pictorially. In color. Includes "Terra Della Compas" and several large islands off the northeast coast of Asia. A number of Russian place names are included. "Tom 8 pag. 306." From volume 8 of Thomas Salmon's "Modern...
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...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title by cataloguer. "Sam Moyer and Elizabeth Griesby in front of the College 1929." Cataloguer's note: The two are entwined in a passionate kiss; one gets the feeling however that they are merely posing and intent on shocking the camera.
Title by cataloguer. The Pribilof Islands the location of this rookery, became a seal reservation in 1868. By 1911 however, the seal population in these islands had been almost reduced to the point of extinction.
Title taken from caption.
Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title taken from caption on Album. A close- up shot of George C. Thomas Memorial Library which was Fairbanks' only public library for 68 years. Named for a man who had never been to Fairbanks, Thomas was a Philadelphia banker who once saw a...