49 x 35 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Shows locations of lode claims, trails and cabins. "Compiled from personal and miners' notes and Government surveys." Engraved by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. In color.
49 x 35 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Shows locations of lode claims, trails and cabins. "Compiled from personal and miners' notes and Government surveys." Engraved by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. In color.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows mineral resources, transportation routes and telegraph lines. Includes legend. Inset: Iditarod and Innoko districts. "Compiled from U.S. Government and R.R. surveys, reliable prospectors and...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows mineral resources, transportation routes and telegraph lines. Includes legend. Inset: Iditarod and Innoko districts. "Compiled from U.S. Government and R.R. surveys, reliable prospectors and...
Note on slide reads "Charlie Guest's raft going down river." Three females, one a young girl, and a male on a raft. One woman is seated while the other and young girl stand. The male stands looking toward the...
Note on slide reads "Feast for dead baby; Kasigluk." A group of girls and boys sit together in a room filled with household and personal items. One girl leans against a stove topped with pots and pans. Clothing...
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...
Includes tables of distances and text describing gold districts. Relief shown by hachures. Cover title: The Iditarod and Kuskokwim: the prospector's opportunity. "Compiled from reliable prospectors' data, government surveys and personal...
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
57 second film clip, black & white with audio. The clip shows damage to four small villages on Kodiak Island by the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio relates personal experiences of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film...
Two minute 16 second, black & white with audio, film clip. The clip shows the damage done by the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio track relates personal accounts of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film "The Great...
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...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...
Berle Mercer talks about Berle talks about growing up in Thedford, Nebraska and first coming to Alaska with the Army, growing up in Nebraska, and Claire, growing up in New York, meeting and having a double wedding with their twins,settling in the...
Brian Okonek talks about his introduction to outdoor activities and involvement in high school mountaineering club, exploring the Talkeetna area, meeting Dave Johnston, his trip in the Alaska Range, relationship with his dad and hopes for a...
Note with photo reads: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Over 20 Air Force vehicles and men from Elmendorf AFB, along with a multitude of civilian volunteers spent several days shortly after the Good Friday earthquake assisting...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Volunteer workers help recover personal belongings in the Turnagain area Anchorage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". Several men with rope pull pieces of a building up a cliff formed by the...
Title from verso. "A cargo frame containing barracks bags and personal effects of military personnel and crates of supplies is pictures inside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command. The barracks...
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.