Photograph of Alaska Pioneers at the Sitka Pioneers Home. The men are wearing convention ribbons. Identification may be wrong and may be the Valdez Pioneers Home.
Two women, possibly student nurses, sit against a retaining wall outside a building, possibly a hospital. The building has been identified as the Sitka Pioneers Home by a Sitka researcher and confirmed.
Verso: Ceremony commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the transfer of Alaska to U.S. U.S. Marine Corps Color Guard stands in front of a group of Tlingit, U.S. Navy sailors and civilians during a celebration of the anniversary of the purchase of...
Title from verso. Image shows an elderly woman wearing a visor and sweater cardigan. Biographical information from the Amelia Hill Photograph Collection at the Alaska State Library states, "Amelia Hill was the resident nurse for the...
Title taken from cataloger's notes. Image shows an elderly man wearing a plaid shirt, glasses and a suit jacket seated in a chair in front of a curtain.
Title from verso. Image shows a woman in a polka-dotted dress seated in a chair. The woman is also wearing a chain bracelet, earrings, a brooch and has a wedding ring on her left hand. Behind her, several porcelain figurines, cups and part of...
Title taken from caption. Photograph of Felix Pedro who discovered gold in the Fairbanks District in July 22, 1902. The Photo was presented by the Igloo Pioneers of Alaska. Felix Pedro's discovery of gold played a part in the founding of...
Title taken from image. Photograph of pioneers of Alaska identified left to right Maiden, A. J., Hans Matson, Al Mayo, Mrs. T. Marquam (Iowa Allman), Bill McPhee, Jim Bender at a private banquet in their honor.
Photograph of four pioneers in Big Delta. The people identified and the year they arrived in Alaska are John Hajdukovich-1906, Rika Wallen-1915, Robert Bloom-1898, and Jessie Bloom-1912.
Title from image. Photograph shows a charter for the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 4. Charter reads "Ecce Novum Astrum, Pioneers of Alaska, Reposing confidence in the following named persons, now residents of Fairbanks, Alaska, we do hereby...
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 margin notes. Photograph shows people sitting on a float during a Fairbanks Winter Carnival parade. The float is carrying a mock giant gold nugget in a gold pan. The float reads "Pioneers of Alaska" and "Igloo No. 4". Parade...