Color photo shows three islands, captioned left from right, "Castle Rock 1779", "Perry Isl. [Island] 1906," "Fire Isl. [Island] 1883," with a volcanic eruption occurring on Perry Island. Postcard is addressed to Miss...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title from indexer. A man looks on from the deck of the Cape Victory, an Alaska Steamship Company vessel, which was regularly contracted to do transport work for canneries. Pier 42, pictured here, was a major transportation hub for travel to...
Title taken from caption. "A harvest scene four miles above Matanuska, on the branch line of the Government Railroad to the Matanuska Coal Fields. Four hundred and sixty-four homestead entries have been made in the region tributary to the...
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...
Title taken from verso. View of the Mountain View - Elmendorf Trail, a regularly used trail between Mountain View and Elmendorf Air Force Base, with bridge across Ship Creek. 1940-1949. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from verso. View of Eskimo man standing next to boat made of skins at Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "The Eskimo hunter in Alaska's polar zone spend much of their time searching the rugged arctic coast for seal, walrus, polar...
Note: this ship, a National Historic Landmark, is now a museum ship ported at the San Diego Maritime Museum in San Diego; she is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a...