A letter on the back of photograph reads "Have not seen Doctor B for quite a while. Mr.& Mrs. (illegible) and two little lasses come up to see us quite often. He is the science teacher here he came from Oregon City. Seems like our own people....
Title taken from caption. "9291 -- The good ship "Queen," after passing the "Seminole," sped on to Skagway, discharged her freight and passengers and then returned to Portage Cove just as the reindeer ship was dropping anchor, on March 27th....
Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...
Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...
Title by cataloguer. A display of Aleutian artifacts; several very finely woven baskets, containers and a flask which are traditionally made of rye grass and often crafted in one of three styles - Attu, Unalaska and Atka.
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title by cataloguer. This is a photograph of a Walrus swiming in the bay. The walrus defining feature is the protruding tusk which extends downward from the mouth; they have thick wrinkled skin, often with little hair in older animals. They...
Title by cataloguer. In this view a group of walruses are hiddeled together on the beach. The walrus defining feature is the protruding tusk which extends downward from the mouth; they have thick wrinkled skin, often with little hair in older...
Title taken from caption. Clipping from a publication with the caption: Four Eskimo girls near Cape Nome, Alaska. The dress of the Eskimo consists entirely of skins of seal, reindeer, bear, and fox, the first two being the most common. The...
Title from accompanying notes. This Native Alaskan Girl is standing in front of a semi-subterranean home. The type of dwelling often found in Western Alaska.
Title taken from caption. View of two ruined barabaras in the Katmai Village. A barabara is a semisubterranean house framed with wood (often driftwood) and covered with sod or turf. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. View of three men looking at the pile of supplies between a car and a plane. The Valdez mud flats were often used as an airstrip. "Bob" is most likely Bob Reeve owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. View of Bob Reeve's plane sitting on the Columbia Glacier with the parts of a new diesel engine unloaded in the foreground. The term 'cat' is often used in refering to a tractor. This tractor engine is most likely for some...
Title taken from caption. View of the Bunker Building in Whittier, Alaska. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182. For Lease -- The Army Port of...
View of empty First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Lobby was often used during this period for Anchorage Garden Club flower shows. From caption: "The above picture is an excellent overall view of...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from verso. View of construction crew working inside safety cage in ditch during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction at Atigun Pass in Brooks Range, Northern Alaska. 1975? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10 1/8"...
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction storage yard at mile 82 of Richardson Highway in Southcentral Alaska, during pipeline construction. Jan. 29, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size:...