Title taken from caption. " Johnson and Allen and Darling entries, fifth All Alaskan sweepstakes, Siberian vs. American dogs, Nome Alaska 1912 . Lomen Bros, Nome # 863 ".
Cataloguer's note: John Johnson, also known as "The Iron Man"...
Notes from verso read: "Military personnel and civilians gaze from the doorway of the Switzerland Inn in Valdez. This shot was taken minutes after a sizeable aftershock which resulted in the oil tanks along the waterfront...
Album caption: Signal Corps relief cabin on Delta Summit, where the second and first sections of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System meet. At the end of Fielding Lake, a sheet of water about eight miles long. This pass is but...
30 second excerpt shows men catching salmon from a pier adjacent to unidentified buildings on the Ketchikan waterfront. Man hauls in fish on line; a second man clubs the salmon on the pier deck. This excerpt is from an original motion picture...
30 second excerpt shows the roadhouse built, owned and operated by Italian immigrant Maurice Morino (1870-1937) at McKinley Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve); the backside of the entrance sign to McKinley Park; the McKinley Park...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic expedition standing on top of a sod roofed log cabin. The man is wearing a mosquito net over his head and smoke is coming out of the cabin. Caption also says: "Before going to...
Title taken from caption. View of a National Geographic expedition member, Jasper Dean Sayre, holding his shotgun and the ducks he has just shot. Caption also says: "Sayre with a mess of ducks secured in a few minutes directly in front of camp."...
Title taken from caption. View of three members of the National Geographic expedition with their catch of trout. The men are wearing mosquito nets from their hats. Caption also says: "A real catch of rainbow trout. The one Wallace has measured 32...
Sign for Earthquake Park, where huge tracts of land slid into the Inlet during 1964 Alaska Earthquake, in Anchorage, Alaska. Seal with totem pole and Alaska flag at left. Sign reads: "Alaska Purchase Centennial 1867-1967. Earthquake Park. 'And...
Interior view of a DC-3 loaded with approximately 200 pigs being transported to Anchorage, Alaska as part of the first commercial shipment of livestock to Anchorage directly from another country. From caption in newspaper article: "These little...
Title taken from caption. The cart reads: “Danger, Arctic Special, Trip Every 45 Minutes, Always On Time.” From verso: "The “Arctic Express” 1935." View of two men posing for a photograph near a small railroad cart. Both men are wearing...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Wineman, Gebhard, Guggenheim, Connor, May and Seashore." Portrait of the 1937 expedition members. From May's journal, dated June 18th: "We landed from the launch... and as it was fairly bright the...
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.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. Frank Glaser sits in front of log building with silver tip grizzly hides from bears he shot mounted on walls, Interior Alaska. Also from front: "Phot. of F. Glaser." From verso: "4 silvertips killed by F. Glaser in 20...
View of pilot Noel Wien in Fairbanks, Alaska, preparing for first commercial flight between Fairbanks and Nome, with Fairbanks Mayor Dr. de la Vergne in derby. From verso: "The personal service which is a watchword with Wien was evident even in...
Title from sleeve. Four Russian cannons on a wooden platform along the harbor at Dutch Harbor. Buildings visible across water on hillside. Also on sleeve: 'neg damaged in quake of 27 Mar 1964. An 8.7 intensity lasting 5 1/2 minutes - our shop...