Looking across the water at the schooner "Olga" under sail. She is towing a small dinghy. Snow covered mountains are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Edwin F. Glenn Cook Inlet U.S. Army Expedition. Cyanotype. Original...
Cyanotype photograph of members of Expedition No. 3, or the Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, standing in front of a pile of boxes containing supplies for the expedition. One man holds a set of skis. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet...
Title from caption. View of the Rapids Roadhouse on the Richardson Highway in Southcentral Alaska. A long low log building is set in a clearing and mountains are visible in the background. Verso: "Pub[lished] by Fisher Studio, Ketchikan, Alaska,...
Embroidered red, white and blue circular fabric patch. Design: a globe balanced on the nose of a seal and the name "Baker Engineers" and the motto "We traverse the earth" on a ribbon around the globe. A surveyor's level sits on top of the globe,...
Baker Engineers employees working on the Army Air Forces runway in Galena. Bright is hammering a peg into the ground, while (L-R) Inman and McBride look on. Baker Engineers was under contract to the United States Army Air Forces to construct a...
Title taken from verso. Interior shot of a Yup'ik woman using a two handled tool to prepare a skin. She is dressed in a kuspuk with a fur border on the hood. Additional information on verso: "Picture taken by Grant, ship's photographer. ...
Rusty (Benzie "Rusty" Ola Dow) standing in the doorway of the rear railroad car. Photo taken in Nenana, on the way home from Fairbanks. Two other passengers are standing beside the train. A railroad crossing sign is visible to the left of the...
Title taken from verso. Photograph of a group of Yupiit women and children seated on the side of what appears to be a grass covered sod house. They are dressed in parkas with fur borders around the hoods. Two dogs are also in the shot. Nash Harbor...
Title from finding aid with photo. Robert Mounteer removing live crabs from a wooden box and placing them in a pile on a dock at the Alaska-Fresh Crab Plant, on the beach at Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska. Kachemak Bay is visible in the background. Aug....
Looking down the beach from the dock toward the Alaska-Fresh Crab processing plant and restaurant on pilings on spit in Homer, Alaska. From verso: "Cannery buildings and restaurant (on piling). Note benchland behind village of Homer. Our cabin is...
Closeup view of Bill Ritter holding two Alaskan king crabs, about to drop them into the cooking vat at the Alaska-Fresh Crab Plant in Homer, Alaska. He is dressed in a rubber apron and wearing a hat. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Roxalana Skobelska tends to tomato and bean plants in a greenhouse on the Pomeroy Farm, Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Large wood burning stove for heating the greenhouse is visible in the foreground. 1952. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Looking across the street at the broken rear wall of the Anchorage, Alaska federal jail. From verso: "Federal jail built when Anchorage first began. It's so decrepit some prisoners kicked the side of the wall out just to show it could be done."...
Winter shot of William Herbert Newlove, part of the construction crew on the Alaska Highway. He is wearing a hat, mittens and a scarf and leaning against a military truck. Verso: "I have about all the clothes I own on in this picture. Northway...
Several men stand in the snow outside a trailer that had caught fire. Items from the trailer are lying on the ground; a ladder is propped against the side of the trailer. Several containers are stacked beside the door. Original photograph size: 2...
Photograph shows a large number of recently disembarked soldiers, standing on the railroad platform adjacent to the train. A series of flatbed cars carrying army trucks is visible in the background. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Photograph shows soldiers, plates in hand, standing in a long line in front of the mess table, waiting for food. A series of tents is visible in the background. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Two King Island, Alaska kayakers raft alongside a boat as they unload cargo, with a man sitting across the bows of the kayaks. Another man in a fur parka stands on a small platform looking down at the kayakers and a movie camera is partially...
Three crewmen of the "Nanuk" use a gaff and ropes to haul a walrus onto the ice in Northern Alaska during production of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, "Eskimo." A small boat is in left background. Photographer: Michael Philip. 1932-1933. Original...