Group photograph of left to right: Senator William Heen, Honolulu, T. H.; Robert Dodge, (law partner, Heen's office), Honolulu; Arthur Trask (attorney), Honolulu; Mrs. Gracie Pfost (Congresswoman), Idaho; Mrs. Nancy Corbett (1952 candidate for...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title from donor notes. Photograph of Rev. Cox and Charlie Evans playing a game of chess. Additional narrative reads: "The chess partner is BIA assistant schoolteacher Charlie Evans (husband of the then head schoolteacher Vivian Evans)."
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
"Title taken from caption. "9256 -- (14) There were a goodly number of robust young fellows who undertook this journey to and through the valley of the Yukon in search of the royal metal fully prepared to overcome all difficulties and to get...
Title taken from caption. 1937 or 38 ? Mastodon Creek (way ahead after creek) Placer Mining operation. Elevated boxes used very efficiently. Pay dirt and lots of rocks (schist slabs) was dumped by the dragline into well constructed box with...
Daryl Miller is interviewed by Dave Krupa on April 27, 2000 in Talkeetna, Alaska. Miller discusses his personal background and how he was introduced to climbing; his first climbing experience on Denali; not summitting on his first attempt and the...
Title from accompanying materials. Mr. Ralph Miller and his partner identified in accompanying materials only as Mr. Powers find success in ptarmigan hunting on the tundra.
The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Jim Felton, postmaster, and Mr. Lawrence, partner in store, standing outside building in Palmer (previously called Warton), Alaska. Sign on building reads: "Warton Post Office and general store." From verso: "May 1935. Jim Felton. Postmaster to the...
This photograph depicts three women and six men dressed in costumes and blackface in Dawson, Yukon Territory. The woman in back at left holds spectacles, the man next to her holds a cane, and the man in front of her holds what appears to be a cake....
View of five women and four men sitting on a hillside in Dawson, Yukon Territory at 1:00 a.m. in broad daylight. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell is second from right and his business partner, Frederic N. Atwood, is mistakenly identified as...
Title from front. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell, left, and his business partner Frederic N. Atwood sitting in front of a tent at their camp on the Yukon River. Cantwell is smoking a pipe and scrubbing a pan. From verso: "En route to Klondike...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Portrait photograph of Esther Birdsall Darling, who was A. A. "Scotty" Allan's partner and co-owner of the team that took two firsts, two seconds, and two third places in six All Alaska Sweepstakes races in Nome between 1908 and 1915.
Title from verso Head and shoulders portrait of Healy, "Taken in Montana" Note: John J. Healy and his partner Edgar Wilson operated a trading post on Dyea River on trail to Chilkoot Pass
The world's first single-leg drilling platform, called a monopod, was designed for Marathon Oil company and its partner to be used in developing the Trading Bay Field in Alaska. Seven foot model shows portions of the com=lately equipped platform...
Designed to overcome the 30-foot tides, crushing ice, and strong currents of Alaska's Cook Inlet, this "monopod" drilling rig owned by Marathon Oil Company and Union Oil Company of California is positioned over the partner's discovery well at the...
Title from image. Portrait of Saginaw Jake (Kitcheenault) and Harlampy Sokolof in regalia sitting in front of American flag. Photographer's number 125.