Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
5 pages of hand written notes, taken by James Wickersham during a conversation with Taku chief Aanahalaash, and 2 photographs. Subjects include: Chilkat Blanket weaving,including the origin of the design and the manner of dying the wool; the Swan...
Signal Corps photo number SC 179466. Verso: During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers, 30 or 40 in a group; a great many of them realizing that they were trapped and going to be killed...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Yukoners on the trail, 1898, whipsawing lumber to make rafts, scows, and other manner of water craft in which to reach the golden land of their hopes."
Title from image. Photograph of an automatic dam releasing its water. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are 2 pictures of placer mining in the ordinary manner in creek beds. Sometimes to conserve enough water to wash the gravel...
Title by cataloguer. This is a view of a wooden boat with cover and resembling a passager boat. To the right, in the shadow, there are two men standing at the edge of the boat in a gondola-like manner.
Title from verso. "A cargo frame containing barracks bags and personal effects of military personnel and crates of supplies is pictures inside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command. The barracks...
Title from caption.
Photograph of a wagon laying out telegraph lines. Caption with photo reads: Eight miles of wire was strung in this manner, five months before the line was built. In summer wire could be handled only by pack-mule, one coil...
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...
Title from verso. A group of men, in variety of hats and manner of dress are standing in front of a ski plane. Jack Elliott is on the right (compare with UAF-1991-98-912). Steve Mills seems to be on the left (identified by Stephen E. Mills's...
Wooden ladle or scoop; broad, shallow bowl; one piece of spruce wood; stained dark red on outside; used; hole pierced in end of handle for hanging; 12 7/8" long.
Label put on by donor: "CL- 3 Salmon River Kobuk Frank Glover 1952" See letter...
Title taken from front. Photo of drawing of woman ("merry widow") being brought ashore in an unusual manner at Nome, Alaska. n.d. Photographer: Goetze Photo.