Title taken from verso. View of a landslide in the Turnagain area of Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes damaged and destroyed houses. Knik Arm visible in background.
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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Cyanotype photograph of Captain David Legge Brainard (left), 14th U.S. Infantry and leader of the Alaska Relief Expedition, and Captain George Ruehlen at Dyea in 1898. The two men stand in front of a tent with boxes stacked to the right. Both have...
Title taken from caption. View of Russian Orthodox priest. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from creator's notes. Notes read: "Now called 'Gold Dredge 8', it was abandoned in the late '40's when this picture was taken." Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
Title from handwritten note on cardboard mount. Photograph of pier 21 in 1910. The number on the sign lists the pier as Pier 2. At the left edge is the Alaska Pacific Steamship Company at Pier 1.
Title taken from front. View of Red Cross vehicle and float in Labor Day parade on 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, with spectators lining the street. Also from front: "A.E.C. G765." From verso: "Left, Masonic Hall - Woolworth Store about 1962....
Title taken from caption. View of crew painting the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. Photograph taken near Kodiak Island during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa painting the ship. Original image blurred. From May's journal, dated June 10th: "The men are now painting the ship, endevoring [sic] to make it look smart and snappy...
Title taken from information with photo. View of a group of people waiting for the bus on the campus of the University of Alaska, in Fairbanks. From front: "U of Alaska". Photo taken between 1960 and 1979. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from verso. View of bridge construction on Yukon River during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Dec. 17, 1970. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10 1/8" x 8".