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. "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 from verso. 'In the Officer's Club at ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome, (left to right) Capt. Nick Warush, base operations officers; Lieutenant Tripolsky of the Russian Air Force, and Capt. Orien Howard, pilot of the base search and...
Title supplied by cataloger A snow shelter built under the wing of the Junkers airplane used in the search for Carl Ben Eielson. The propeller, most of the body, and part of the plane's identification number ([illegible]-177) are visible....
Title supplied by cataloger. Two people stand near the Junkers plane used in the search for Carl Ben Eielson buried by snow-drift. Most of the plane's full length, wing span, and tail rudder are visible; men are dressed in parkas and hats. In...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "Historical photograph Collection in the Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks." A snow shelter built under the wing of the Junkers airplane used in the search for Carl Ben Eielson. The propeller, most of the...
Title from image. An outdoor portrait of Jimmie Mattern. This photograph may have been taken during one of Mattern's visits to Alaska. In 1933, during his solo flight around the world he stopped in Nome, Alaska. Again in 1937 Mattern was in...
Title taken from front. Group of miners pull their supply sled as they set out to search for gold, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 1049. n.d. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from verso. View of trucks waiting to cross Yukon River on ACV (air cushion vehicle) during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Also from verso: "Here drug search was conducted which also included alcohol." From...
London : Nisbet, [1881?] 432 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. : 20 cm.
The Giant of the North, published around 1881, is a tale about an Eskimo man who serves as a guide to a group of Englishmen as they search for the North Pole
Following the war, U.S. Army forces in Alaska were primarily concerned with training. However, they rendered many services to the public in fighting forest fires, in search and rescue and medical aid. Soldiers from Fort Richardson guarded...