Note: Artist’s caption, identifying the church as the Church of St. Nicholas, is incorrect; the church pictured was dedicated to St. Andrew the First Called, and it was destroyed by the fire that consumed the village of Killisnoo in 1928
This photo has been identified as Chief Kowee, in Juneau, with his wife Ok-lak and her sister (who was also his second wife). That identification, on verso, is considered to be incorrect. Verso: Kow-ee - Died Feb. 27, 1892. Wife "Ok-lak" and...
Note: 1893, written on image is probably incorrect date; Fr. Ioann (John) Bartnovskii (or Bartnovsky) was ordained in 1894, the same year the church was consecrated Photographer's number 289.
Cyanotype photograph of a Captain Edwin F. Glenn in a wooden sled on a beach. Two ships in the water are visible in the distance. Several metal pipes and a wooden building are partially visible on the left. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's...
Mrs. Warren G. Harding at Nenana, Alaska, with bouquet of flowers and women in background. From verso: "Mrs. W. G. Harding (Pres. Harding's wife) at Nenana July 15/24 [incorrect year]." July 15, 1923. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 2 1/2".
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...
Shows western tip of the Aleutians, from Attu to Semisopochnoi Island. Shows tracks of Billings and Sarychev. Inset: Note sur les Iles Aleutiennes [giving short descriptions of the topography, exploration, native peoples, and resources of the...
Title supplied by cataloger. Written on verso: Round house, Whittier. Since the railroad was not completed to Whittier prior to 1943, this identification may be incorrect. View of railroad roundhouse and tracks, with locomotive smoking on tracks in...
Title from verso. A dog lies in the doorway of a grass hut. The location of San Carlos (Panamá, Panama) is inferred from the context of the photo and may be incorrect.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.