Verso: Russ Hart (L), former station manager for the Federal Aviation Agency at Nome receives a retirement certificate from Virgil Knight who represented Allen D. Hulen, the FAA Assistant Administrator for Alaska. Hart completed 30 years of...
Verso: Bob Harwood, city council member of Nome (second from left) delivers address at dedication ceremonies of the Federal Aviation Agency's Flight Service Station, held last Saturday in Nome, as a feature of this year's Midnight Sun Festival. He...
Title taken from caption. "9284 -- (21) The scene represented in this view impresses us with the fact that the army of argonauts over the Dyea Trail not only proceeded on foot but also personally transported their camp equipage and supplies. A...
Title taken from caption. "9209 -- (24) After passing Sheep Camp the Yukoner of 1898 proceeded up the trail on his journey toward the pass. A group of these gold seekers are represented in the foreground of this view, while a procession 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 taken from caption. "11506 -- (35) Some of the sites selected by the prospectors who joined the stampede to the Yukon in 1898 were both picturesque and romantic.
In the view here represented, a cosy spot has been chosen under the...
Title taken from caption. "9272 -- (31) On March 28, 1898, the government reindeer relief expedition landed at Haines Mission. The herd then numbered 525.
From the date of the landing of the deer at Haines Mission the story of the...
Title taken from caption. "11528 -- (10) The cost of constructing cabins in the Klondike during the latter part of 1897 was considerable. Logs were selling at $50 apiece, and wages were from $15 to $20 per day. An ordinary one-room cabin...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of three men and a woman inspecting a strange duck shot by one of the men. Narrative in the photo album reads: "At the right are Mr. Shultz (with the pipe) and Jack Rice examining a strange specimen of duck which...
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
Shows world from north pole to the Tropic of Capricorn within sphere, with mountain ranges continuing into the sea and surfacing on different continents, and southern landmasses drawn outside sphere. Relief shown by hachures. From Gentleman's...
Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend showing the division of land to different controlling countries and notes on dominant religions in different areas. Alaska is vaguely represented, labeled as the discoveries of Chirikov in 1741. ...
Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend showing the division of land to different controlling countries and notes on dominant religions in different areas. Alaska is vaguely represented, labeled as the discoveries of Chirikov in 1741. ...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.