Title from verso. Photograph of a building damaged during the bombing raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "All that remained of a 24-bed hospital at Unalaska after Japanese bombers struck June 4. Fortunately, all patients had been...
Made: Russia
Used: St. Michael
Found: Unalaska
Culture: Russian
Description: iron; wood; brass
Descriptive Narrative: Small cannon labeled "Russian cannon from St. Michael". Iron barrel is 36" long x approx. 4-1/2"...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
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 taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC postal clerk."
Congress opened hearings in March 1943 on the conversion of the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) into the Regular Army. The WAC bill was signed into law some four months...
"HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- Heavy Damage -- Large scale damage was inflicted on the Alaska port city of Seward by the Good Friday earthquake and the tidal wave that followed shortly...
Album caption: Signal Corps relief cabin on Delta Summit, where the second and first sections of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System meet. At the end of Fielding Lake, a sheet of water about eight miles long. This pass is but...
Title from verso. "The first Russian military mission to Alaska arrives at Nome in the late summer of 1942. The Russian standing between the US officer in riding breeches and the Yank in the tin hat is Col. Michael Hachin, who remained in...
Title from album note Additional information from album: The natatorium was about "dead center" over the pool left by the cave-in; a few planks, sections of studding and roofing, floating on water, were all that remained the following morning....
Inscription on image: Supreme Court - Judge Craig, Sr. Judge; Judge Duclos [Dugas]; Judge MacCauley, youngest of the three, 1912 Note: In 1912, an amendment to the Yukon Act reduced the number of Territorial Court judges to one. Judges Aime...
Postcard caption: Mollie Walsh, the wonder girl of White Pass Trail. Alone, and without help in the winter of 1897-8 she ran a tent road-house and fed and lodged the wildest and most persistent men Alaska ever saw and remained as clean morally as...