A crowd of people line a street to watch a dogsled team led (perhaps) by Capt. Crimmins start the All Alaska Sweepstakes Sled Dog Race. Photos UAF-1985-122-46 to UAF-1985-122-48 may be of the same activity.
A man is guiding a dog sled led by one dog on the frozen river. There are two ships docked in the frozen ice. The ship on the left has "Elk No. 1 of St. Michaels" painted on the bow. Photos UAF-1985-122-64,...
Photograph with verso caption: "Alaska Statehood backers jubilant-Members of the U. S. Congress who led the fight to make Alaska the 49th state of the Union join with Alaska's Govenor and Congressmen elect in celebrating the final passage of...
Naturalist Charles Sheldon (1867-1928) was an authority on big game animals, particularly Alaskan mountain sheep and bear. He participated in a drive which eventually led to the creation of Denali National Park (originally Mt. McKinley National...
Title from caption in album: "May 12 - Down from higher up where track had led up same slope - Old Camp mt. and Clearwater Divide". Photograph shows mountains.
Title from indexer. Additional narrative in donor notes reads: "Our sled dog Iolanthe, bred by Milton Swan in Kivalina, lost much of her left hind leg when, with her stake-out chain accidentally wrapped around it during one winter night, her...
14 min, 10 sec film clip, color/sound. From voice-over introduction: "This week's edition of The Alaska Report features a recent floor statement by Senator Stevens on recent attmpts to rewrite the history of the United States involvement in...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title from verso. Full verso reads: "Starr, Hull raised aft, House lengthened, Galley stack led into main stack plus other changes. The scene is possibly Seattle, since the photographers appear to be base there.
Title from attached news release. Series of 12 photos showing a safety award being presented. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 (nights: WE...
In 1949 the Alaska statehood committee was established and preparation for the drafting of the state constitution began. On November 8 1955, fifty five elected delegates from all over the state met in the Constitution Hall at the University of...
Title taken from caption. "The big glacier, Katchemak Bay." [The glacier is probably Grewingk Glacier or Portlock Glacier.] Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-745". 5 x 8 cyanotype."
Title taken from accompanying note. >"North American Championship Dog Races, 1969." This poor-quality photo captures the scene of the sled dog racing. A large crowd is gathered in the open field. Several flags (US, Canadian and perhaps others)...
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: The south side of 2nd Street from Cushman to Lacey. The Stores (from right to left) are Lavery's grocery store (there is a stairway that led to upstairs business when this building was first...
Title from verso. "Wilkins. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." In 1927 Explorer George Hubert Wilkins led the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition. This was Wilkins's second venture into the Arctic. The plane, a Stinson-Detroit biplane which was...
Title taken from caption. View of men in front of a tent, part of a group led by Professor Alfred E. Burton, from Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland. One of the men in the image is identified as George Rockwell Putnam, possibly the one kneeling.
Title taken from caption. View of Knife Peak near the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. It was later renamed Mount Griggs for Dr. Robert Fisk Griggs (1881-1962), botanist, whose explorations of the area, after the eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912,...
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...
Cyanotype photograph of eleven members of the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the U.S. Army, gathering to eat. This photograph was taken on Prince William Sound, possibly at Valdez, in April 1898. The...
Cyanotype portrait of two Alaska Native men sitting on a bench draped with animal hides and skins. The men are each holding an object in their hands, possibly hats, while the man on the right is wearing a tie. These men are possibly Andrew and...