Title taken from caption. View of Lutheran church in Nome, Alaska. Signage on building reads: "Our Savior's Lutheran Church." 1957. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
Verso: "The cake of ice left on beach this spring in front of our house. We got ice to fill our ice house out of a cake like this. You can imagine what a river 500 yards wide, running and jamming full of such cakes is like. It is quite a sight....
Title taken from verso. Two men operating a stationary single bladed power saw from the deck of a floating dock. A small building is on the far shore. Cord wood floats in the water, cabled together. View across the water from the deck of a...
Title taken from image. Men, women and children in front of Elk's Hall with signs seeking home rule for Alaska.
Signs in image:
This is our nation. Why may we not govern it?
Home Rule. Our birthright.
Uncle Sam: We are American...
Photograph with an attached caption that reads: Supreme Court and Superior Court Justices - First Court System of the State of Alaska -- Seated, L. to R.: Walter Hodge; Buell A. Nesbitt; and John H. Dimond. Standing, l. to r. -- Walter E. Walsh;...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Prince Rupert, 1910, during a light rain. Visible in the image are several businesses and a church. The church is just left of center and the businesses that are identifiable are the Big Furniture Store and the...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of a woman who may be Cora Rivenburg standing on the porch of a house. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is our house at Stevens Village taken the day after our arrival. The school room occupied the...
Photograph of a garden with a log building, elevated cache and a dog sled on a wood pile. Narrative in photo album reads: "The rest of our own 1911 garden showing cabbage, kale and raspberry bushes. The berries grow wild and are very...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza with a log cabin in the background. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first morning, before...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Old Eliza walking in Stevens Village with a log building in the background. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first...
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 Cora Rivenburg at the helm of the stern wheeler Yukon. Narrative in photo album reads: "Mrs. Rivenburgh steers our steamboat going up river."
Title from caption. Photograph of the tennis team. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right our tennis team visiting at Quincy during a tournament. This team won the county high school championship. I did all coaching in the school. Lots...
Title from caption in album: "July 30 - Our camp at the end of timber at head of McKinley fork -". Photograph shows two men at a campsite amongst trees. The camp consists of a canvas tent, a fire, and various supplies scattered around. ...
Title from caption in album: "May 12 - West - showing our trail + Karstens trail up where he was as bear tried to rise ". Photograph shows a snowy mountainside where a dead bear has fallen.
Title from verso. Men carry a litter across the landscape on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a Navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...