Title from caption in album: "May 1 - Cabin woods - S.W. Toklat Horse". Photograph shows mountains in the distance with a snow covered field and some woods in the foreground. The horse named Toklat is standing in the field.
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Photograph shows a winter view of some of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus buildings, Lower Commons, Nerland Hall and upper dorms. There is snow on the ground. The Lower Commons were later named the Lola...
Photograph of the USS Juneau at dry dock. Probably just prior to commissioning. The USS Juneau was sunk just after the battle of Guadalcanal, only 10 of her crew survived. Five of the dead from this ship were the Sullivan...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a man named Wally holding up one fish trap and standing next to another. Caption from finding aid reads "Wally with fish trap of willow reed". Location is unknown.
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.
Waterfront photograph of the town of Iditarod. A barge and some boats are in the river. A sign on a building reads: "Robert Simpson. Jeweler & Optician. Iditarod Land Office. Commission House." This photograph is believed...
Title from caption. Photograph of the Whitehorse Rapids. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above: My shot from a distance of the rapids, named 'White Horse' because the foaming, leaping waters are artistically said to resemble leaping white...
Title from verso. "Wilkins (expedition). Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." A close up shot of the large Fokker airplane which was part of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition of 1927. The side of the ski plane reads "Fokker"; the nose,...
Title from verso. "Wilkins. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." In 1927 Explorer George Hubert Wilkins led the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition. This was Wilkins's second venture into the Arctic. The plane, a Stinson-Detroit biplane which was...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Captures some of the landmarks and landscapes found in Wrangell; these include: the harbor, a totem pole, Wrangell Fire Department, the Wrangell Sentinel, the post office, a building labelled "Campbell Brothers", the 49th Star Theatre, and a wooden...