Title taken from caption. Aerial view of an Alaskan Air Command radar installation. From verso: "HQ AAC -- Early warning -- BMEWS Site 2, at Clear, Alaska boasts three AN/FPS-50 fixed detection radars. Clear was the second operational site in the...
View of 13th Regional Corporation fishing boat "Aleutian Beauty" used to provide crab for seafood processing ship "Alindeska Sea" in Cold Bay, Alaska area. Printing on boat reads: "Aleutian Beauty." 1980's? Photographer: Billy B. Johnson. Original...
Unknown military personnel standing beside a PBY Catalina seaplane during World War II on an airstrip at Adak Island, Alaska, with propellers in motion. Surface on the ground is Marsden matting (perforated steel plating that interlocks to provide a...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
View of woman standing in doorway of FEC (Federal Electric Corporation) building most likely at DEW (Distance Early Warning) Line site at Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Another building is visible at left and red dolly is visible at...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Unalaska’s principal street, with Sears & Roebuck-clad Aleuts approaching the sign." Street view of Unalaska showing several wooden buildings and three residents walking along a gravel street past a welcome...
Title taken from caption. View of an open sided, rectangular shaped building. Large wooden poles provide the structural support; two walls and the roof are covered with skins. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from front. View of Marsden matting (interlocking steel plates which provide a stable place for airplanes to take off and land) on runway, damaged by high winds, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, during World War II. Also from front: "IPF 3G294...
Title taken from front. View of new generator installed after fire destroyed power plant, Anchorage, Alaska. Two locomotives provide power at right, crane visible at left, and men continue construction in center. Also from front: "Power furnished...
Title taken from verso. View of installation of gas line between Prudhoe Bay and Pump Station 4 to provide power for Trans-Alaska Pipeline pumps 2, 3, and 4 during pipeline construction in Northern Alaska. 1976? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon....
Title taken from verso. View of erosion on trail near Tatalina River during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction near Livengood in Interior Alaska. Pipeline crews resprigged the area, which involved using willow or other flexible twigs bound together...
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks, Alaska, part of which was leased to provide quarters for workers during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. April 16, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph...
Title from image caption; handwritten notes on image and attached provide information that C. J. Johansen "gave his bride her weight in Klondike gold; also, [Wickersham] saw Johansen in Dawson in Sept. 1911 -going "outside" Man, wearing hat,...
West side of Territorial School, showing living quarters; a second story was added in 1934 to provide apartments for two teachers; this building was completely destroyed by fire in December 1939
State of Alaska Division of Tourism and Economic Development. Verso: “The Highways and Bi-ways of Alaska, it has been said, provide more sheer grandeur and scenic beauty per mile than any other roads found anywhere. Here a motorist and her...
Title taken from verso. Verso (news item): May 5, 1917 - Lester D. Henderson, Juneau superintendent of schools, was today appointed the first Commissioner of Education for the Territory of Alaska under the recently enacted law to provide for a...
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...
Pontoons were flooded to settle the platform to permanent position some 60 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska, and three miles from the west shore of Cook Inlet. Submarine pipe lines connected to the pontoons carry to shore where the 20%...
Title from image. Note continues: Purchased by Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. to provide further area for the operations. Note at bottom: Map No. 3
Showing principal improvements so far constructed by the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining...
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...