Image shows time-lapsed photograph of the progress of the sun on the shortest day of the year, December 21st, in Nome, Alaska. Sunrise noted as 10:25am, and sunset at 1:35pm, though no year noted.
Title by indexer. Caption reads: "'Slim' Williams, International Trail Blazer. Alaska Cabin - A Century of Progress." Verso stamped: "POST CARD. New York - Stadler Photographing Co. - Chicago. Made in U.S.A." Slim Williams was a...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "J. F. Moore. Logan Fort Ind." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "Joe Allabough. Mgr." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Prince Rupert, 1910, during a light rain. Visible in the image are several businesses and a church. The church is just left of center and the businesses that are identifiable are the Big Furniture Store and the...
Two minute, 4 second film clip, black & white/silent, of life in Anchorage, 1915-1917. Clip is in a film newsreel format and shows Anchorage street scenes, the 3 in 1 Laundry, a pie eating contest, some Anchorage houses, the Alaska Labor Union of...
Title taken from caption. "9196 -- (25) In this view we have ascended about one-fourth of the icy stairway and pause a moment to rest and view the strange, stupendous and impressive panorama which spreads away before us down the trail and...
Title by cataloguer. A view of a field during a football game in progress. The note on the back of the photograph reads: "Vets dorms." Duplicate to UAF-1958-1026-2376.
Title by cataloguer. This photograph captures a basketball game in progress. A man is seen off the ground as he attempts to shoot the ball into the basket, while the other players, in motion are watching in suspense.
Title from verso. Aerial photograph of Weeks Field. A grandstand is next to the hangar. Verso, written by Noel Wien at a later date: 1930 Weeks Airport, Fairbanks, Alaska. The old Fairbanks Airplane Co. Hanger in upper left hand corner,...
A close-up shot of a bridge under construction. The numerous fallen trees, and scattered logs and wood chips suggest perhaps that this area was recently cleared and work is still in progress. Also in view are the stream under the bridge, and the...
Title taken from accompanying note. A close-up photo of a raft race in progress. Everybody is waring orange life jackets. On one raft is a tall chamber on whose walls is painted "[Kinge ?] Kup 109".
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
From caption in The Polled Hereford Magazine Nov 15, 1947: "Denoting the progress of the Polled Hereford breed, this picture represents several possible 'firsts' - first air shipment of Polled Herefords out of the Western United States, first...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
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.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.