Title from verso. "Rear Admiral Konstantin Rodionov draws a bead on a tempting ball during a game of 'smoker' [snooker?] pool at the officer's club of the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, Great Falls, MT, where the Russian...
Title from verso. "Standing alongside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) emblazoned with the Red Star, members of the Russian delegation returning from the Dumbarton Oaks conference pose for a final picture at the Army Air Base in the Air Transport...
Title from accompanying notes. "Yukon River before arriving in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Spent night in Whitehorse." A dock and walkway on the thawing Yukon River.
Title from accompanying notes. "Floyd & Pete burying skis for use as anchor points to tie down the plane for the night. Floyd, and Lois who lives in Illiamna (which is NW of Kodiak) spent the night. Note: Lois describes her night staying with...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak 1936, the “gang”." From May's journal, dated May 24th: "Today the Doctor spent quite a time taking pictures of the "gang", - we should look pretty tough as none of us have shaved since arriving...
John Jacobson, Martha Stowell, and two unidentified men unloading lumber from a trailer on a USO outing. From caption: "Fire Lake - the USO wanted to buy an old cabin on the lake and we spent several weekends on spring working hard to fix it up. ...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Note from Historical Record: "The community takes great interest in all school activities. Much money is raised each year to be spent on athletics and for improving the school grounds."
Teacher's quarters, attached at right, were described in the Historical Record as such: "The quarters were not used by the teacher for five or six years until 1941, when about $100 was spent making them livable; this included a new stove, new...
Manuscript with descriptions of 58 Alaskan villages by various students attending the Eklutna Vocational School during 1937. Villages include Afognak, Alitak, Anvic, Attu, Barrow, Beaver, Bethel, Cantwell, Chignik, Circle, Diomede, Eagle, Egegik,...
Photo caption: One week of the Alaska Village Sanitation Aide training course is spent in laboratory work on the study of disease transmission. This program is sponsored jointly by the Alaska Native Health Service, the Alaska Department of Health...
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....
Note on verso in Russian written by Tikhon Vinokouroff Oct. 12, 1920: On
Kumakh- Surt
120 v[ersts] from Buluna (Siberia)
All [illeg.] "without ceremony"
-- without changing clothes
Sept. 15, 1926