Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, Summer camp of Indians on Copper River". "At Copper River, a half-mile or more wide, we found a camp of Indians who ferried us across, and a day later we were at Tonsina Station." Additional...
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 taken from caption. Caption also says: "A block of lava on the plug of Novarupta showing the ropey flutings due to flowage of the more fluid bands of lava after the block had broken off." Photo taken at Novarupta, Alaska, at what was later...
Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man standing in front of an airplane. Another man is sitting on a heavily loaded truck. Two more men ate in the background near a building.
Title taken from front of photograph. "A.A.C.S.M (Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mine), Alaska Champions 1927 - 1928. 1. Dr. Bunnell 2. Don McDonald 3. Johnny Smith 4. Ted Loftus 5. Howard Romig 6. Mr. Abel 7. Sam Moyer 9. ? ?....
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign with facts about Alaska posted on Alaska Highway, possibly near border between Alaska and Canada. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Facts on Alaska. Alaska is twice as large as Texas, covering...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows the office building of the Alaska Road Commission. In the background more buildings can be seen. Caption from finding aid reads "Alaska Road Commission Building at McKinley". Location is at McKinley...
View of the exterior of the Anchorage Natural Gas Corporation building in Anchorage, Alaska. The sign reads: "City of Anchorage. Alaska's Largest Generator. More power to Anchorage. 15,000 Kilowatts. Natural gas turbine by Westinghouse". Original...
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,...
View of a photography shop in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Street number on house reads 322. Signs read, left to right,Mac's Foto, Mac's Foto Business as Usual (More or Less) in Spite of Early Breakup! Other buildings and...
View of a photography shop in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Street number on house reads 322. Signs read, left to right, Mac's Foto Business as Usual (More or Less) in Spite of Early Breakup!. Next sign reads Open. The next...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Another area of more or less permanent flood plain ice on Firth River about 4 miles below (northeastward) from crossing of the 141st meridian. View is looking northward down Firth River....
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Another area of more or less permanent flood plain ice on Firth River about 4 miles below (northeastward) from crossing of the 141st meridian. View is looking northward down Firth River....
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...