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....
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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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...
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 three members of the National Geographic expedition with their catch of trout. The men are wearing mosquito nets from their hats. Caption also says: "A real catch of rainbow trout. The one Wallace has measured 32...
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...
Title taken from caption. View of a sign near Eklutna Lake in southcentral Alaska, in the snow and at night. Sign reads: "United States, Department of the Interior, Alaska Power Administration, Eklutna Project. Eklutna Lake, elevation 8710 feet,...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Interior shot. Two servicemen stand in the middle of the photography lab at Ft. Richardson. Sign on the door reads "Film ?". Original photograph size: 6 3/4 X 9 1/4 inches.
Title taken from caption. From verso: "May, photographing our cache of chipped knives, June 8th." View of Alan May photographing a set of six chipped knives. He is using a tripod and wearing a heat net. From May's journal, dated June 8th: "The...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak – 1936, fire place, west banks." From May's journal, dated June 9th: "The Doctor uncovered a nice fireplace from which I saved a lot of seed found in a shell which was used for food. This is is the...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of Alan May sitting near a whale vertebrae, and eating a sandwich. There are shovels propped up next to him. From May's journal, dated July 11th: "Turned out the grandaddy [sic] of all whale vertabrae...
Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for a photograph wearing a kamlayka, and holding a pair of snowshoes and mukluks. May explains receiving these gifts in the following journal entry, dated July 20th: "Agefangle Prokopioff brought in a pair...