Wooden model of fish scoop. The basket of the scoop is made from a thin piece of bent wood with cotton twine webbing woven in a diamond pattern. The handle is a long thin piece of wood attaced to the basket with cotton twine. See remarks field. ...
View tentatively identified as 5th (Fifth) Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Sign on left reads NC Co, Signs on on right includes CT Rentschler Agency Insurance Real Estate, Zenith Radio Anchorage Radio...
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867.
Title taken from verso. View of trucks waiting to cross Yukon River on ACV (air cushion vehicle) during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Also from verso: "Here drug search was conducted which also included alcohol." From...
Title taken from verso. View across Fourth Avenue of the Federal Building in Anchorage, taken in winter, 1940s. Several shops are included, as well as cars parked along the street. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
Title taken from the slide. View of a destroyed apartment building in Anchorage, Alaska caused by the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Included are automobiles, buildings, people, children, a street, street lights, and a fence.
Title taken from the back of the photograph. " Seal skin pokes and walrus skin swings ". Cataloguer's note: The grils are playing on the swing, as the suspended sealskin hangs overhead.
Among the indigenous people of Alaska, the seal...
Title taken from slide. View of a building damaged in downtown Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Identified as the Smart Shop, which an April 1964 Anchorage phone book locates on 4th Avenue and F Street. View includes cars,...
Title taken from map. Map of Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamship routes between Seattle and Skagway on the pacific northwest coast and between Vancouver and Asia. Principal Alaskan ports named are Mary Island, Ketchikan, Wrangell,...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Fairbanks, Alaska business district, with cars parked along street and pedestrians in right background. Also from label: "Modern concrete and brick buildings have been erected among the old-type frontier...
Title taken from creator's notes.
Color photograph of a sternwheeler with the following notes: This riverboat connected Fairbanks with Anchorage. The captain notified the military when they could come to pick up their shipments. This included...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from caption. The 1896 Peary expedition to Greenland included an artist, Albert Operti, and the man seated is likely to be him. Expedition member’s name as identified in “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of...
Title supplied by cataloger. Joe Redington Sr.'s sponsors included Tang and Morrison-Knudsen Co. This photograph may have been taken for sponsors. Original format: 35mm color slide
A person looks as two people, one sitting in front, the other behind, appear to be sledding down a hill. The legs of other people are included in the photo.
Title from image. Tlingit artifacts collected by Lt. George T. Emmons and sold to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where it still resides. Included in the photograph are bentwood boxes, bowls, aprons, masks, shamans grave...
Title from attached news release. Series of 12 photos showing a safety award being presented. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 (nights: WE...
Title from accompanying notes. "On the way to Russell Glacier. Notice again stuff on the wing struts, included curved red object which is an extension to the top of my pack that I built for Mt. McKinley to carry additional loads on my pack."...