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...
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...
Title from verso. Photograph of an Aleutian village. The steamship at the dock might be the Victoria. Verso reads: "Taken on a dark day. Another village in the Aleutians. A good view of the ship you would take if you came up. These...
Title from caption. Caption might be 1919 as it appears, but all the other photos from this collection are from 1911 or 1912. Visible is the community of Ruby and a barge. It appears to be break-up.
Title from caption. Photograph of the Ben Moore family home in Skagway, Alaska. Visible in the yard are J. Bernard Moore and two women. Mrs. Moore is seated at the left; the woman seated at the right might be Miss Morrison, the housekeeper. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of a scow shooting Miles Canyon near Whitehorse, YT. Caption reads: "Shooting Miles Canyon on scow, the waters of this Box Canyon run very swift and many early stampeders lost their lives [on] it decending in...
Title from indexer. Photograph of a cabin with a storage shed/elevated cache and a large wood pile between. A small wood structure beside the footprints in the snow might be a dog house.
(3:41 min.) (01 of 24) 01 Early life & family history Raised in Baltimore, MD. Life was tough so he went to sea. Traveled the world. Went to West coast because heard might make more money. In 1934, started with Alaska Steamship Co. ...
Full note reads: "Charlie Lee pulling logs for Collins' cabin up Quikcherk Creek with CAA tractor. Kobuk River." Additional comments from village presentations: "Quicksherk (misspelled). It might be spelled...
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.
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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...
(3:45 min.) (08 of 09) 8. Rural/Urban divide The borough concept might have been an error. There are some problems between the city and the Borough. Les felt a young state needed a strong executive.
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 from caption. Photograph of a wagonload of mukluks. The wagon bears the markings "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. ...