Title taken from donor's caption. A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying. "The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan...
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.
Title from caption. Photograph of a wagonload of mukluks. The wagon bears the marking "no. 1" and appears to belong to Company E of the 30th Infantry. Two soldiers are on the wagon seat; a man standing in the street might be a soldier. A...
Title taken from caption. The buildings in the foreground are identified as follows (L-R) "Dormitory No. 2, Dormitory No.1, Power house, and the General Office. A.J. Johnson offical photographer for A.E.C No.134." Indexer note: This...
37 second, black & white/silent, film clip of two people standing and pointing outside of what might be the Forget-Me-Not Emporium in Anchorage. A second section of film shows a man shoveling coal from the back of a Alaska Transfer Company coal...
Photograph of the Louisa and Walter Titus family in front of a log building.
Further information was supplied by several Elders during the Denakkanaaga Elder and Youth Conference held June 6-10, 2005, in Grayling Alaska, who believed that...
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,...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
The following is the text on...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: A good picture of the steamboat AURORA. One AURORA owned by Captain Williams, was reported at Rampart May 30, 1901, getting ready for a trip up the Tanana. She could carry 30 tons of freight and 10 passengers, which...
Mrs. Pullen stands on garden path with hotel in background Message on verso of postcard sent to Jonathan P. Henderson of Moscow, Idaho: "Thought this might be one of your relatives! She looks as though if she has any male relatives, they would...
Possible visitors pose in front of low tent. Stove with this type of pipe used either whale oil or wood. Previously, tents did not have stoves; they cooked outdoors. Possible identities: Person in white parka just left of dark man in middle...
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TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD QUOTE THE LAY OF FINAL VICTORY HAS AT LAST ARRIVED X JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED X HER FLEET WHICH ONCE...
Title from verso. Photograph of group of people standing outside a building that might be the Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. Verso reads: "Here is a picture of the group of Bible Training School Students the year before we came...