"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Ralph and Ida Savory in the cockpit of a Boeing 707-320 just prior to Take-Off non stop London to Seattle, October 13, 1969. This was the final flight for Pan Am, mandatory...
"Native girs at Waynewright. It's just like a 'teeter-totter' only they stand up." The home and barn visible in the photograph looks remarkably like a farmhouse.
5x7 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"First Jet Landing at Juneau, Feb 3, 1963 Boeing 707-320 – Aircraft can be seen just touching down on runway to the Right Below Governor Egan speaking to a large crowd of...
Title from verso. Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized mushing trip from Fairbanks, Alaska to Washington D.C. to prove the...
Title by indexer. Image shows a lake lined by birch trees and spruces, with a small building just off the short behind trees. Photo identified by collection donor as formerly belonging to George Lockyear. George Lockyear served in...
Title from caption. Caption reads: "What's happening? Just a little worm up, that's all. To my man Benson. The Kid. Ray." Verso reads: "$25. #30." Image shows an African American man standing in a hallway dressed for a boxing match....
Signed "Yelnats 3-[26]-26". This is apparently clipped from a magazine or book. A driver, car in a river, calls to another person standing in the river with a shovel: "Say, could ya give...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows water bursting forth from something that can not be seen. A large pipe sits above the water. The view is seen through some brush. A man can just be seen in the background.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows what appears to be some logs and pipes along the shore of a river. The end of a stern wheeler can just barely be seen, as well as some other boats.
Mrs. William (Kitty) Sibley and her son Billy Sibley. "She's an Eskimo Lady... she's married." Being "married" is distinguished from just living with a white man and saying...
Left to right: Mamie, Jimmy and Walter Minanow with their mother, Mrs. Susie Minanow. "She was Mrs. Minanow... she just went by it... she call[ed] herself Susie Minanow, but...
See the numbers on the photo: 1. Tishu (Stokes) Ulen; 2. Nellie McNeal "Little Nellie ... she stayed for the summer with us." 3. Jay ?; 4. Madame Melbourne; 5. Mrs. Brown; 6....
Johnson and Bertha Moses in front of the mission in Allakaket. They have just finished tagging their beaver catch. That winter they got 30-40 beaver. It was about 1957....
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Prince Rupert, 1910, during a light rain. Visible in the image are several businesses and a church. The church is just left of center and the businesses that are identifiable are the Big Furniture Store and the...