Title taken from sign in front. Group of people pose in front of W. Butts' ice cream parlor called the Elite Candy Kitchen in Seward, Alaska. Some of the men in the picture are identified as Claud Mathison (second man from left, Wayne Blue (third...
Title taken from verso. This photo was taken before the U.S. entered World War II (1941) in Seward, Alaska, although the quote on the back of photo says " The Veteral Liner Yukon, as she appeared in Resurrection Bay just before going to her doom on...
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Title from image. View of Katmai crater during an eruption. Reverse of a postcard related to this images states: "Vol. Katmai that upset this part of the country last year (1912). Taken this June (1913), a year after. The 1st pictures taken of...
Verso: Alaska's William Randolph Hearst Scholars--Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) congratulates (left), Loren Leman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Leman of Ninilchik and Tom Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson of Anchorage who were chosen...
Photograph with a press release included which reads: Case Of The Missing Watercolor--Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, right, presents to Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) the reproduction of a painting depicting the transfer of Russian...
Title taken from verso. Notes attached to the photo read, "Back, Fred Beeler, John Boswell, Wilson W. Walton, Gene Brice, Don Mueller, Robert Mize, ---, Saddie Pratt, ---, Charlie McMahan, Leslie Chester; Next to Back, Elizabeth Grigsby,...
Title from caption: "The Government Farm. Fairbanks, Alaska." In the bottom left side of the image the last part of the caption is obscured by the photograph's border. Writing in the border reads "35 mm NEG. 73-159". Image shows six men...
Title from caption: "The Government farm. Fairbanks, Alaska." Image shows six men in hats, suits and ties standing in a field and measuring grain. One of the men is holding a measuring stick with his finger pointing between the 4 and 5 foot...
Title by indexer. Image shows men of the 1942 Army Test Expedition. Identified from the front, seated L. to R., are Robert Bates, Peter Webb, Frank Marchman, Albert Jackman, Wilbur Musser (in front), Einar Nilsson; second row: Terris Moore,...
"And the last one here, number 15. Yea that was that borrowed DC-3, it was destined for Pan American's China facility, China National Airline, but we had use of it to operate a few trips over through British Columbia to prove it was...
"Bonus scans: my father's favorite is him in his fur hat leaning against the cowling of the Ballanca on skis. The last one is him in his Pan Am uniform."
Description from interview with Ralph Savory and his daughter, Diane.
"Bonus scans: my father's favorite is him in his fur hat leaning oagainst the cowling of the Bellanca on skis. The last one is him in his Pan Am uniform."
Description from interview with Ralph Savory and his daughter, Diane.
Color postcard of Fort Egbert postmarked at Eagle, Alaska on April 17, 1909. Written on the same date is, "At Eagle today. You surely had a [illegible word]. Had paper from home. E.H. [A.H.?][illegible last name]...
Family photograph of John Minook, his family and home. Identifications made by Robert E. King, cousin to Sally's husband Samuel Heeter, with the data Alfred Mayo's last surviving child, Mrs. Antoinette (Mayo) Roberts Woods of Rampart & Fairbanks,...