Title from image. View of Katmai crater during an eruption. Reverse of a postcard related to this images states: "Vol. Katmai that upset this part of the country last year (1912). Taken this June (1913), a year after. The 1st pictures taken of...
Handwritten note reads "Native Dance, Nikolai." Because this image includes the building, a paved area that might be a sidewalk, and people also present in UAF-1997-108-239 and UAF-1997-108-328, the...
Title from verso. Verso also stamped with: "P.L. Tait, Printing & Enlarging. Quesnel, B.C." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a...
A steamboat with passengers is near a dock. Images UAF-1968-21-50, UAF-1968-21-52, UAF-1968-21-69, and UAF-1968-21-70 appear to feature the same steamboat.
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
58 second film clip, color silent. From title frame: "Moving Images Collection". Film show whales surfacing at a breathing hole in the ice, the hole is surrounded by people watching and filming them.
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
The James Edwin Morrow Photographs consist of 121 color transparencies and slides with images of various places in Alaska taken in the early to mid 1960s and in 1971. Subjects include Chicken, Ninilchik, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Kenai, Seldovia,...
In 1925, Norman H. Read (1891-1992) was part of the first expedition to climb Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America. Read returned to make a second ascent of the mountain in 1950, at the age of...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 5 - Self + bear". Photograph shows two images on top of each other. One is a man, center, kneeling with a pipe in his mouth and holding up the head of a dead bear. The other, left, is a close-up of a different...