Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Caption: What Happens When A Territory Becomes A State? - In a radio interview with Washington correspondent Stuart Finley, offical representatives of the new country of Ghana and the 49th state of the United States discuss the similaritites and...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Junior Red Cross boxes brought smiles of delight to the faces of Aleut children in the Red Cross shelter at Camp Denali while plans were being made for their return to Old Harbor. Gift...
Edition of October, 1887. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Grave par C. Legras." "Ecrit par Vialard." Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 3784." "124-181."
Title taken from verso. Planning map for Turnagain Heights subdivision in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Lynn Ary." Captions on plans include: "Lynn Ary Park," "Knik Arm," "Turnagain Boulevard," and "Reserved for the capitol of Alaska." June...
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: General Dwight Eisenhower (center) visited Fairbanks military facilities to "review the troops." Great plans were made, however, a rain storm put everyone inside the (one & only) big hangar. The...
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
Title taken from caption. An unidentified Alaska Native boy watches the excavators make plans. Alan May is in the light colored jacket, Ales Hrdlicka to the right. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
In 1925, Norman H. Read (1891-1992) was part of the first expedition to climb Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America. Read returned to make a second ascent of the mountain in 1950, at the age of...