(3:41 min.) (01 of 24) 01 Early life & family history Raised in Baltimore, MD. Life was tough so he went to sea. Traveled the world. Went to West coast because heard might make more money. In 1934, started with Alaska Steamship Co. ...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Local name reported by Lieutenant Commander Moser (1901, pl. 43), U.S. Navy (USN). Heads at Harlequin Lake, flows SW to Gulf of Alaska, 25 mi. SE of Yakutat Bay, Malaspina Coastal Plain....
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Tlingit Indian name first reported in 1849 by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkof, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), governor of Russian America (1852, map 7) as Reka Akve or Akve River and since...
A man [the teacher?] stands outside school; children in the background; in 1942, the school enrollment was 11 students; the teacher reported that, although the view was fine, the wind was terrible
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.
Comments by R. N. De Armond: A good picture of the steamboat AURORA. One AURORA owned by Captain Williams, was reported at Rampart May 30, 1901, getting ready for a trip up the Tanana. She could carry 30 tons of freight and 10 passengers, which...