Four Alaskan Native women are standing on the beach. The women are all dressed in fur-trimmed kuspuks and mukluks or boots. There are boats nearby on the beach. There also appears to be a cross in the background, possibly...
Title taken from verso. Photograph of Henton Avenue showing a man leaning out of the door of a business titled Island Transfer: Sand, Gravel, Fuel, Storage. At the end of the street is the Montgomery Ward Office.
Pilot chart of the Yukon River, showing wood storage sites and the amount of wood, cabins, villages, gravesites, sawmills, mines and creeks along the riverbanks. Sand bars and various features of the river are drawn in, and a dashed line indicates...
Title from verso. Image shows a large garden at a fish camp along the Tanana River. The garden contains several rows of leafy plants. A man in a hat can be seen standing at the edge of the river bank slightly to the left of the center of the...
Title from verso. Image shows a fox farm next to a beach. Several small houses are visible within the enclosure. Sand covers the floor of the cages, and driftwood can be seen along the shore. Spruce trees also border the enclosure. ...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a butchered dead moose on a river bank of the Innoko River. Caption from finding aid reads "Moose on Innoko River 1955 winter". Location is along the Innoko River, Alaska.
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Rivenburg and Mr. Decker on the mail launch. Narrative in photo album reads: "Mrs. Rivenburg and Mr. Decker on the N. C. mail launch. She went to Tanana on this launch with Mr. Decker & Mr. Franzell. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of a Wyoming desert. Narrative in photo album reads: "This is not a cultivated field, but a barren, sandy desert in Wyoming. The small mounds were too hard to be eroded by the wind blown sand."
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Nov 8 - Totem poles about old ruined house at Kung". Photograph shows a sandy riverbank with three totem poles in the distance.
Title from caption in album: "May 1 - From out on bar near cabin - South - Mountains of Bear Draw". Photograph shows snowy mountains in the distance. The photographer is standing on a snow covered sand bar facing trees.
Title from verso. Photograph of men and equipment landing on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American Troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...
(9:55 Min.) (01 of 09)
Barging on the river
barging; river history; summer -- Galena; hauling 140 ton loads; river trips; whole life on river; Holy Cross; freight; Nenana; Yukon; million gallon barge; Nenana; Fairbanks; Core of Engineers; Chena...
(9:56 min.) (06 of 09)
River conditions
villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush...
(3:10 min) (03 of 04) Trying to organize in the wake of the earthquake. supplies -- washed out\ fishing -- nets\ gas drums\ fish trucks\ Akwe River\ Dry Bay\ steam -- sand flats\ Geddes, Bill\ foam -- insects