Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier taking cover behind rocks. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay. Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [...
Title and caption taken from verso of UAF-1970-11-51, from which this image differs only slightly. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu...
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. troops advancing on Holtz Bay on Attu Island. "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [ Japanese ] garrison on...
Title from verso. Photograph of men waiting for a lull in the fighting to advance. Verso reads: ""Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [...
Description on back in Russian with English translation: The very first church in Juneau, where all Christian communities too turns holding services. Built by Roman Catholic priests. Later passed into Presbyterian ownership. Afterward beer and soda...
Formal studio portrait of Arthur Shoup of Sitka, a member of the First and Second Alaska Territorial Legislatures; author of the Woman Suffrage Bill, passed March 21, 1913.
Caption below image reads, "Where I passed a cold night." Three men stand in snow near front of Long Lake Hotel Restaurant, mountains behind; no other buildings in sight.
Title from image. Left to right: Arthur Glendinning Shoup, House of Representatives - Sitka. Governor Walter Eli Clark. Conrad Freeding, Senate - Nome. W.W. Shorthill, Sec.
Photograph of a photo case, which holds a photograph of Wickersham and a placard reading, "1880, James Wickersham, 23 years old; passed Illinois Bar; married Deborah Bell"
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...