Accession Number: 98-1 Model: 4.2" Dahlgren projectile Descriptive Narrative: Explosive shell casing made of a steel (rusted); approx. 4" in diameter and 8.25" from end to end. One end is rounded, the other tapering. The rounded end has...
Title by indexer. Photograph shows a collection of photographs illustrating the deaths of Jefferson "Soapy" Smith and Frank H. Reid. The photographs include Smith on the day he died, doctors examining his body, and his gang being rounded up....
Title from donor notes. Photograph of an earthmover on the beach near Point Hope. Additional donor notes read: "This 1958 [?] attempt at constructing an airstrip -- a project planned elsewhere with no local consultation -- was frustrated...
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Two Unangax^ basket weavers with several baskets and the grass they use to make it. They are standing in front of a rounded structure (maybe a barabara?) with a window between them.
A duplicate of the photograph in UAA's Alan May papers...
Photograph accompanying manuscript by William J. Betts, titled "Captain Castner of Chilkoot," which depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines From verso: The first view the new soldier to Chilkoot received as his ship rounded the point...
Men with rifles stand guard in front of The Manila Saloon Note: After Soapy Smith was shot, some of his gang members were rounded up and held in the Manila; seated on the far right is Si Tanner, who became the new marshal and was given a...
Spring camping scene. Location unknown. Possibly the gravel spit leading out to Point Barrow, because of water on both sides. Or Nuvuk or Pigniq because of the higher ground in the background. Tents lined up so that when cooking fire soot would not...