Description from ASL-P155-1-42 reads: Eight men pose in uniform in front of what looks to be a betting board for a dog sled race beginning in Candle and continuing through Council and Safety, ending at Cape Nome and...
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
Title from verso. Photograph of the site of a former Aleut village. Verso reads: "Expanse of water and grass was all that met first Japanese who occupied Kiska Island in the Aleutians. This is the site of a former Aleut village. W...
Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
Color postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska on Jul. 13, 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Cordova, Alaska. June 10, 09. Dear folks at home, I arrived in...
(4:50 min) (16 of 19) Popularity of road travel Was able to work on 35 cars at a time. Traveled to Detroit for a General Motors dealers' convention. Visited family before returning to Alaska. Met, courted and married his wife, Miss Flora...
(4:08 min.) (17 of 28) 17. Virginia comes to Alaska
Virginia was given the chance to come to Alaska as a flight instructor; if she didn't like it she was told she could fly home for free. She only instructed for one summer. She came up,...
(6:47 min) (24 of 28) 24. DC-3 training
George met a Pan Am Clipper pilot who set him up for training at LaGuardia Airport. He was leasing a Pan Am DC-3 but the corporate heads cancelled the deal. Bill Conrad was the instructor George went...
07 Followed the lend-lease path (6:32 min.) (07 of 09)
Back then you had to check in with customs every time you stopped. Margaret met up with two others bound for Alaska (Major Ware and Joe Barber), and they figured to save money by taking the...
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 donor's caption. "We built a boat here to run the river to the coast. Left to right, Tony Diamond, now (1950) U. S. Federal Judge in Anchorage, Alaska, George Potter, 'Bill' and Julia Potter."
Title from verso. "'Miss Fairbanks' Mis Jane Gordon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Gordon, boarded a PAA Electra August 3rd flying to Juneau where she met 'Miss Alaska', Irene Reenstrom of Seward. Miss Gordon is managing the Miss Alaska...
An older woman, left, holds a bouquet of flowers and a young man, right, sits on the steps of the woman's home in Sitka, Alaska. From verso: "Mrs. Bishop Ro[illegible] at home in Sitka, Alaska, Sept. 22, 1901 +a nephew ____ K[illegible] - whom I...
View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Both the Spencer and Ariadne were waiting offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) for the seas to subside so that they...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Skobelska, who later married Harold Pomeroy. The photograph was taken circa 1948 by an unidentified photographer. Roxy gave this photograph to Harold after they met in Austria during World War II, while...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.