(3:11 min.) (08 of 12) Pork-Barrel appointment to judgeships and reactions to Ada being a part of the Constitutional Convention Fairbanks -- before Statehood; territorial form of government -- people had no voice; Washington DC -- grant favors;...
Official spelling for the creek is Sunaghun Creek This in formation and what directly follows is from Garry Njootli, Yukon Toponymist for the Yukon Government
"Kutcha-Kutchin name reported by I...
Title taken from back. "The science club was organized in the fall of 1934 by students and faculty from chemistry, home economics, agriculture, and general science. From left to right back row: instructor Roland Snodgrass, Leo Saarela, Elinor...
Title from verso. "Standing alongside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) emblazoned with the Red Star, members of the Russian delegation returning from the Dumbarton Oaks conference pose for a final picture at the Army Air Base in the Air Transport...
Title from verso. "Rear Admiral Konstantin Rodionov draws a bead on a tempting ball during a game of 'smoker' [snooker?] pool at the officer's club of the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, Great Falls, MT, where the Russian...
Title taken from caption. View of Professor James S. Hine, a zoologist from Ohio State University, and the collection of birds that he had gathered for study. Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska,...
Title taken from caption. View of Professor James S. Hine, a zoologist from Ohio State University, and the collection of birds that he gathered for study. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during...
Title taken from caption. Group portrait of six men aboard the S. S. Hope, including Professor Alfred E. Burton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology en route to Greenland on Peary's 1896 expedition.
Title taken from caption. Five men stand in front of a tent in Greenland. An American flag is attached to the top. The man in the center is identified as George Rockwell Putnam. One of the other men is Professor Alfred E. Burton of the...
Audio recording of lecture presented Friday, August 17, 2007: 1) Lecture on Native Cultures and Anthropological work of Dr. De Laguna by Dr. Marie-François Guédon, professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa; 2) Closing remarks by...
Audio recording of lecture presented Friday, August 17, 2007: 1) Opening Remarks by Gladi Kulp, Head of Historical Collections; 2) Introduction of Paul Jacskon Sr. by James Simard, Curator of Historical Collections; 3) Speech and thanks by Paul...
Presentation of the first installment of the Frederica De Laguna: 1) Opening Remarks by Gladi Kulp, Head of Historical Collections; 2) Introduction of Dr. Guedon by James Simard, Curator of Historical Collections; 3) Remarks on the Collection and...
Title from verso. Theodore Koven's body was discovered near the head of Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley by the Lindley-Liek Expedition in 1932. Theodore Koven and Allen Carpe were scientists working on a high altitude cosmic ray research...
Title taken from caption. Professor W.P. Anderson on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title from verso. Image shows members of the Lindley-Liek Expedition that made the first successful ascent of both peaks of Mount McKinley in 1932. The men are shown looking for the body of Allen Carpe, who also climbed Mount McKinley in 1932...
The James Edwin Morrow Photographs consist of 121 color transparencies and slides with images of various places in Alaska taken in the early to mid 1960s and in 1971. Subjects include Chicken, Ninilchik, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Kenai, Seldovia,...
Title hand-written on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 4, 1961 and depicts the log home of Ivar Skarland (1899-1965), professor of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in College,...