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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Title taken from caption. View of a six inch ruler sitting in a bear track that measured 10 x 15 1/4 inches. Photo taken near Martin Creek in what is now designated Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during National Geographic Society...
Title taken from caption. View of two members of the National Geographic expedition displaying one of the trout they have caught at Naknek River, Alaska. Behind them and to the left is a tent and to the right can be seen the river and part of their...
Expedition journal, 95 pages. 5.5 inches wide by 8.25 inches high. Volume spine is broken and many pages are loose. This volume begins with Fickett's leaving Portland, Oregon, to go to Alaska for the start of the expedition to explore the Copper...
Expedition journal, 73 pages. Dates from June 14 to September 30, 1885. 3.75 inches wide by 5.75 inches high. Continues the description of the Allen Expedition to its arrival at Fort St. Michael on Sunday, August 30, 1885, as well as the trip from...
Expedition journal, 50 pages. Dates March 20-June 13, 1885. 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches high. Discusses the Allen Expedition up the Copper River and describes their activities and hardships; it also contains weather and other scientific...
Expedition journal, 13 pages. 5.5 inches wide by 8.25 inches high. Discusses stay at Fort St. Michael, trip on the U.S.S. Corwin to Unalaska, sailing to San Francisco, and the trip from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon. This item is essentially a...
Title taken from caption. View of a house and its front yard in Kodiak. The yard is covered in equisetum also known as horsetails. Robert F. Griggs wrote in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes "Of all the native plants the the one which...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the Stevens Village school house and teachers residence. Narrative in the photo album reads: "At the right is the school room end of our building. It was built entirely of logs. The roof is made of poles...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption. Photograph of Old Eliza taking salmon from her net. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is Old Eliza cleaning salmon on the beach of the Yukon River. Her canoe is in the water near her. These squaws are very expert in...
Title from photo album. Photograph of Lawyer Rivenburg in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "These canoes weigh but fifty to sixty pounds and are from fifteen to eighteen feet long and about eighteen inches to two feet...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title from caption: "Carving ice in the Yukon River at Ruby, Alaska. 5 ft. 8 in. thick, Mar. 1, '13." Postcard is postmarked Ruby, Alaska on Mar. 29, 1913 and is addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. R.R. no. 7 Hopkin [Hopkins] Co....
31 second, color/silent film clip. Title from title frame: "Liquid sunshine gauge at Ketchikan". Shows the "tallest barometer in the world", located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The barometer/billboard reads at the top: "Busted in 1949 202:55 inches"....
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...