Title taken from caption. Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph with two women in front of a tent near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
Full note reads: "1930 Christmas by Bob Marshall". Other notes list people on photograph: Mr. & Mrs. Big Jim, Jonas, Jenny Sucket, George Eaton, Marshall Green, Mamie Green.
47 second, black & white/silent, film clipof earthquake damage in Seward and Kodiak. The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake left the waterfronts devastated -- fires burning, automobiles and other debris floating in the water, ships cast up on shore,...
Title taken from slide. View of damage to the JC Penney store in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes a soldier/National Guard walking down the street, other buildings, street signs, a crane, street lights, fences,...
Title from accompanying note. The Chena River swollen above its banks. Downtown Fairbanks is on the other side. The presence of ice or snow in the foreground and floating down the river suggests that this is not the flood of August, 1967.
Title from accompanying note. A view of a parking lot and the surrounding area. Several parked automobiles are submerged in deep water. Debris and other scrap materials have littered this disaster area.
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from verso. View of destruction along Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, looking east after the March 27, 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Signs include "Bar D&D Cafe"," Sportsman's Club","Frisco Cafe", "Mac's Foto", "Scandianavian Club...
Title taken from verso. Fourth Avenue at E Street, looking east. Anchorage, 1940's. A military truck sits parked at the curb next to a sign reading Pick Up Military Personnel Here. Other automobiles, businesses, and pedestrians can also be seen....
View of damage to buildings on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Street sign reads 4th Av. Signs on buildings read, left to right, Anchorage Hardware, Northern Jewelers, Bar D&D Cafe TV Shows. The Denali...
View of damage to J.C. Penney Department Store and other buildings on 5th Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, after March 27, 1964 earthquake. Businesses shown include J.C. Penney, Singer Fashion Fabrics, Book Cache, Craig's, Alaska State Bank,...
Technical sergeant "Mill" Plum holding a wheelbarrow filled with rock; two other servicemen look on. One is holding a shovel. Text on upper left of photo: "Aug 44". Verso: "Aug -44. One of my many side-lines up here. - Yes! I have a license to...
Title taken from verso. View of a group of women wearing hats fishing from the shoreline in Seward, Alaska, while other women holding purses look on from behind. Postcard.
Cyanotype portrait of an unidentified man and Alaska Native woman,and three children sitting on a bench draped with animal hides and skins in the village of Knik on Knik Arm. The man has a mustache, and the women and two younger children have...
Title taken from caption. View of H.M. Wallace holding a swan that he shot in one hand and the Remington he used to shoot it in the other hand. Caption also says: "H.M. Wallace. A swan and the Remington automatic." Photo taken in what was later...
Title from caption: Equipment A.R.C. Yard Fairbanks 5-2-34. A bulldozer and several other large machines (possibly graders and other bulldozers) are lined up. In the background are a tall building with two smokestacks (left) and a stack of...