The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Title from verso. View of a dog team standing on the ice on frozen Birch Lake. Five dogs are harnessed to a small sled and the driver, Calvin F. Townsend, is standing behind it. The lead dog is identified as "Sox." Trees line the shore of the...
Title taken from caption. Full caption reads: "Slim" Williams, International Trail Blazer and his leader "Rembrandt." Verso stamped: "POSTCARD." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska...
Man standing in front of a log building with both vertical and horizonal logs. In front of him is a dogsled with three dogs attached. The lead dog is sitting.
Photograph of a three-dog sled team harnessed to a sled for hauling wood. Old Luke is just out of the photo to the right. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Here is Old Luke hauling wood with his small dog team, only Luke did not quite get...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
(7:03 min.) (06 of 27) Alaska Road Commission II
Commission members lived in Alaska, but had to get funding from Congress. Later got funding from the Departments of Commerce and Interior. Head of the commission was Richardson, a personable...
A letter on the back of photograph reads "Have not seen Doctor B for quite a while. Mr.& Mrs. (illegible) and two little lasses come up to see us quite often. He is the science teacher here he came from Oregon City. Seems like our own people....
Title by cataloguer. A view of horse-drawn sleds. Men and women travelers are seen standing alongside the sleds. A chicken stands on the back of the lead horse. A short, wooden fence runs along the left, and a house is far in the background.
Title taken from caption. View of Grant Pearson, who was a park ranger at McKinley Park in 1938, with his lead dog Whitey. Whitey is sitting in Grant's sled with the dog-harness in front and a riflecase behind him. There is a forest service cabin...
Title taken from caption. View of four members of the National Geographic expedition, led by Charles Yori, on the march in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Caption also says: "The geophys[ic]ists under the...
A line of decorated automobiles takes part in a parade in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Balloons cover the lead car. In the foreground, a person is being towed on a child's tricycle. Spectators watch the parade from the sidewalks. Original photograph...