Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph. Notes read: The north side of Second Street from Cushman looking east toward Lacey. The businesses (left to right) are a gift shop, Griffin's Music (and photography), the Model Cafe, the...
The unmarked building to the right is St. Joseph's Hospital. On the left is the Alaska Citizen. Just to the right of the Alaska Citizen is the H. C. Davis Sash and Door Factory. The Chena River at flood stage is visible...
Title by indexer. Image shows the office building of the newspaper "Tanana News." Signs on the building also say: "Job Printing" and "Farthest North News Paper in the World. Tanana, Alaska." A man wearing a suit stands outside the building,...
Three men identified as left to right: Howard Rock, Theodore Hetzel, and Tom Snapp. They appear to be discussing the items on the table in front of them, which appears to be printer's type blocks and plates.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Jack Rice reading an issue of the Yukon Valley News while on a picnic. She is leaning against a fur blanket or a pile of furs. Narrative in photo album read: "Mrs, Rice at a picnic near our cabin."
Title from verso. Photograph of canvas umiaks shuttling cargo from a Navy vessel to St. George. Verso reads: "Five of 16. Last Long Mile -- Although cargo to the Pribilofs arrived at destination aboard a modern Navy transport which also...
Title from verso. Photograph of a load of gasoline drums being lowered into an umiak. Verso reads: "Four of 16. Gasoline for Pribilofs -- A slingload of gasoline-filled drums is lowered into a waiting bidar, a 40-foot canvas covered...
Title from verso. Photograph of sealskin harvest barreled for transport on the USS Thuban, seen in the background. Verso reads: "Seven of 16. Precious Cargo -- In neatly spaced barrels, part of a four million dollar sealskin harvest...
Title from verso. Alternate title from verso: "Navy ship resupplies Pribilof Islands and brings back seal skins(Nine of 16)" Children swing as other children look on from a boat landing. Verso reads: "Nine of 16. Bering Sea Playground...
65 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a small town newspaper being produced. According to the sign hanging on the building, Jack Allman was the editor and publisher. Possibly this is him in the clip. A man types and then makes copies of...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Woman photographer from Anchorage Times contemplating how she wants us to pose: Left to right: Standing: Bill Hauser, Norm Benton, Ed Boulton, Marie Working, Chuck DeHart,...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from photograph.
Photograph of Bob Bartlett and Adlai Stevenson shaking hands with a guest, as a boy holds open a copy of the Daily Alaska Empire stating that "Adlai arrives in Juneau today."
Title taken from caption. Clipping from a publication of Bishop Rowe preaching to a group of mostly, if not entirely, Native Alaskans. Items of note in the building are the ornamental lantern lighting and the magazine or newsprint wallpaper.
Title from caption in album. Several men in a white wall tent, held up by wood poles. There is a whipsaw in the foreground. One man is sitting on a bench and reading a newspaper. There is a water bucket on an outside table. A hat hangs outside...
Photograph of a man reading the Army Navy Register in the headquarters tent of the WAMCATS construction camp. Visible on a box is a typewriter and one of the boxes is a crate of bacon that held 6-12 lb. cans--packed in May 1911 in Buffalo, New...