(3:09 min.) (01 of 09) 1. Early life Les's father went north with the gold rush; when he found that the claims had all been staked, he and his partners opened up a paint and wallpaper store. Les moved to Fairbanks with his wife and eldest...
(3:26 min.) (02 of 27) Family history: Father
Father from Norway at 10 years old. 1896 came to Alaska for the Hope/Sunrise gold rush. Father carried mail from Seward to Matanuska Valley. Father wouldn't eat Hooligan. Ran a transport boat...
116 second film clip, color/sound. From title frame: "Boucher Collection, 12/19/96". Film shows Ted Stevens talking about issuing stamps for the 100th anniversary of the Alaskan Gold Rush.
1st row - left to right:
McIntyre, W. W., Pendleton, Ore
Jones, C. L., Elloree, S. C.
Rank, C. B., Hutchinson, Kan.
White, J. E., Sedalia, Mo.
Wallace, M. L., Albany, Texas
Brevet, E. F., Spokane, Wash.
Lt. (jg) R. C....
A Wisconsin legislator and U.S. Attorney, Delaney moved to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush and served as the first mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1900 to 1901
Anchorage Garden Club officers Betty N. Stenehjem (with gavel) and Evelyn Rush behind table at Anchorage Garden Club meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Map of Alaska is on wall at left and Alaskan flag stands at right. From caption: "President - Betty...
From verso: "Copper Center, Alaska. Copper Center Roadhouse. 102 miles north of Valdez on the Richardson Highway. On this historic site, "Blix's Roadhouse" served the gold seekers during the Gold Rush 1897-1898. There has been a roadhouse here...
Full-length studio portrait of woman lying on fur robe; possibly Fabruda Manzar, famed "Little Egypt" of Chicago World's Fair, who later performed in Skagway and Dawson during the gold rush
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Stampeders freighting on the trail at the height of the gold rush to the Klondike, 1898."
One of the ships that helped launch the Klondike gold rush in 1897 when she steamed into port with purportedly a "Ton of Gold"; on November 12, 1910, the ship hit a rock and grounded near Katalla; all passengers and crew survived
One of the ships that helped launch the Klondike gold rush in 1897 when she steamed into port with purportedly a "Ton of Gold"; on November 12, 1910, the ship hit a rock and grounded near Katalla; all passengers and crew survived Name written...