37 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Dickson Collection". Film shows a Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed 10 Electra being fueled and taking off. Aircraft N-Number appears to be NC-14259.
115 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame, "Phillips Collection." Film shows a man servicing and refueling a Piper PA-16 airplane on skis at Phillips Field in Fairbanks, then the plane taking off. Airplane's N-number is N5776H.
152 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Washburn Collection, 1938". Film shows men preparing a plane to take off from a tidal flat. The plane takes off and then lands again, and is refueled. Aircraft N-Number:...
Title from caption in album: "May 28 - Bear skin off - Up West Branch". Photograph shows two dead bears, mountains sit far in the distance. The bears are being skinned. From album #7, page 74 verso, top right.
Title from caption in album: "May 28 - Bear skin off - Up West Branch". Photograph shows two dead bears, mountains sit far in the distance. The bears are being skinned. From album #7, page 74 verso, bottom left.
Title from verso. Highly doctored photograph of a U. S. Navy warship bombarding Attu Island. Original may have been overexposed and darkened for better visibility. Verso reads: "Confirmation that the big ones were in action came for the...
Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska in July 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Tex. [Texas]. Written on the verso, "July 17, 09. Dear folks at home, I supose [suppose] you are feeling mean at me for...
Title from caption: "Alabama Horse Scow Navigation Co. on the Iditarod River." Written on the verso, "This picture shows the mode of getting freight up the small streams. No wonder that flour costs $15 a sack, spuds 20 cts. [cents] a lb. [pound],...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows an airplane taking off in the distance. Many people appear to be standing behind the airplane. The landscape is flat and snow-covered.
Title from donor notes. Photograph showing a sod house in the foreground with the North Star off shore. Full donor notes read: "Department of the Interior supply ship "North Star" lying off the south beach on its annual fall visit...
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,...
55 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a Pacific Airways single engine Ford airplane on skis preparing for take off, taxiing down the field, and then taking off from Weeks Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from back of photograph. "Bailey's off campus living quarters and shared by mining engineering students in 1940 and 1941. The structure was built during the summer of 1939. The frame was built (?) of 2" x 6" rough hauled from a...
Title taken from the back of photograph. Note with photo. " A group of reindeer taking off across the river ". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.