View of downtown Anchorage, Alaska, looking east toward 4th Avenue and H Street. Businesses shown include Piggly Wiggly Market, The Club, O.K. Cleaners, 1st National Bank, Merchant's Cafe, South Seas Nite Club, and Carol's Dress Shop. 1947....
Title taken from verso. Fourth Avenue at G Street, looking east with Chugach Mountains in distance. Cars, buses, and pedestrians in street. Anchorage, 1940's. 4x3 contact print, 4x3 neg
Title supplied by cataloger. Winter street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking east toward the Chugach Mountains. Pedestrians walk on sidewalk underneath signs for Flowers and Music Shop. Cars on street and along curb. 4x3 contact print,...
Typewritten text on recto: "High Tide - 'Anne W.' arrived from Seldovia with one barge. Departed immediately for Seldovia. View shows Dock #2. Arm practically free from floating ice."
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 taken from back of photograph A small airplane is flying over a small settlement at the seashore. Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, MD.
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Typewritten on recto: "March 1st, 1917. View of ice on flats and larger lumps in mouth of Ship Creek. Note: Surface of Arm is clear of ice and that on flats is slush ice."
Title from indexer. Photograph shows the stormy seas of the Antarctic Ocean (Southern Ocean) as seen from land. The edge of a rocky cliff can be seen in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph. Location may be Deception Island,...
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
From: An account of the new northern archipelago, lately discovered by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir. By Mr. J. von Stæhlin ... Tr. from the German original.
vi, [2], 293 p. front, XVIII pl., 2 fold. maps. 28 cm.
"This work is plagiarized from the prof. Sir C. L. M. von Giesecke's Lectures and from Generla Vallancey."--Allibone, Crit. dictionary of English literature, v. 2.
This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...