Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia posing on McCarthy Creek." The trail was vague and difficult. We had to ford the stream a dozen times, not dangerous water but deep enough to reach to the knees. When we finally reached Donahoe's...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from caption. A Soviet serviceman and a teacher pose for a portrait in Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title from accompanying notes. "Al Randall and Japanese climbers at Camp 1 after Al and I had scouted beyond Camp 1. Bright red colored flags are wands used to mark the route so that it can be followed (even in poor weather)." Six men in...
Title taken from caption. View of Alaska Packers Association cannery buildings at South Naknek, Alaska. Letters at right read: "A.P.A." Also from caption: "So[uth] Naknek, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Title taken from front. View of the Anchorage Catholic Church. The Little Flower Gift Shop (so named in 1963) was the first Catholic Church in Anchorage. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1915. Postcard. Original photograph...
Title taken from verso. Andrew Ooseva cutting piece of ivory for umiak, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Photographer's number McM 13453. May 1961. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...
Title from caption. Photograph from a sternwheeler approaching the Five Finger Rapids. Narrative in photo album reads: "On our boat approaching Five Finger Rapids in the upper Yukon. Current was so swift that in going upstream, a cable was...