57 second, black & white/silent film clip. This clip shows facilities being constructed and some of the air craft destined to be sent to the Soviet Union for defense against Germany during World War II . Clip is an excerpt from the Universal...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title by indexer. Caption reads: "'Slim' Bragg shown with Wolves and Tim Twitchell Trapper. Bragg Guided and Trapped Many Years in the Talkeetna and Other Areas Before Becoming a Game Warden." The word "Unknown" is scratched out, and "Tim...
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...
Title taken from caption. "Underground Mining in the Tanana Country." Cataloguer's note: The men in this underground mine seemed to be posing for the camera. Notice the man on the far left -- his facial features have been enhanced by ink,...
Title from verso. This Russian fighting ship helped to protect the first Russian military mission, arriving in Alaska by transport plane in [late summer] of 1942. Photo taken by US Army Air Forces."
Charles Mac Kay has identified the model and...
Title from verso. "Tuning up the "Detroiter". This enormous plane has three engines. The [propeller] in the picture [left engine] is the one which struck and killed Palmer Hutchinson. Copies from Reed's."
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. "Donna and dog. She (and her husband Don, the bearded guy) owned the dogs and worked at the air traffic control station in Northway. Days later, she baked an apple pie which she sent...
Title from accompanying material. "Lois, Jack, Donna (who sent me the pie) & West just before Floyd Miller flew West & me to Fairbanks to catch a flight to Seattle." Four people posed on the stoop in front of a log cabin.
Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
Title taken from verso. View of top deck of ship crowded with farmers heading for the Matanuska Valley in southcentral Alaska. 1935. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of men being served food in a chow line on the deck of a ship on their way to the Matanuska Valley in southcentral Alaska. From verso: "Dinner is served. Destitute farmers from Minnesota sent by gov't. to [be] relocated in the undeveloped...
Charles Goodyear Hubbard II, astride his horse "Whitie", fords the Copper River followed by a pack train of three additional horses and two men. Verso: "Showing how rivers had to be crossed when Hubbard was finally in Copper River Valley and horses...
Title taken from verso. Interior view of Maud Hausler's store/Post Office interior at McKinley Park National Park, Alaska (later Denali National Park.) The photograph was sent to Vic Rivers from George R. Wilson. From verso: "1938 Do you...
View of workers moving the smoke stack of power house in place at Mount McKinley National Park (later Denali National Park and Preserve), Alaska. The photo was sent to Vic Rivers from George R. Wilson. From verso: "1938. The big day when the smoke...
View of a bunkhouse housing construction workers at Mount McKinley National Park (later Denali National Park and Preserve), Alaska. The photograph was sent to Vic Rivers by George R. Wilson. From verso: "1938. In the foreground was our water supply...
Title taken from caption. Handwritten note on verso: "Kind remembrances of a pleasant association. Sincere good wishes. Dr. & Mrs. L.A. White." This aerial photograph of Amaknak Island was likely sent to Alan May by Dr. and Mrs. White after the...
The front of a holiday card showing a group of school boys on the steps of the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. From the front: "Seasons Greetings from our house to your house. [?] from my lads and me. Sincerely yours H. Mother [house mother]...
View of several wagons drawn by horse teams and what could be harvesting equipment. The wagon to the left has a couple of children aboard. The cancellation stamp on this postcard indicates it was sent October 3, 1915 from Valley City, North Dakota....