May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Black and white copy photograph of oil painting. A small boat approaches the Ancon, which is listing seriously to the port side. A Tlingit canoe is on the beach in the foreground. The village of Loring is close by. Naha Bay is in the...
Busy waterfront scene with riverboats FOX, TANANA, and one other, along waterfront; sign on warehouse reads, "Str. TANANA leaves 1 PM today, June 3, connecting with SCHWATKA for Dawson direct"
Close-up, side view of the SARAH Perhaps the largest steamer on the Yukon river, she hit a rock October 1903 about 70 miles below Eagle and sank; no lives were lost but about 400 tons of freight were lost (Kinky Bayer)
Cyanotype photograph of a stern wheel steamboat, its deck crowded with passengers, taken near Dyea on Lynn Canal, Alaska in 1898. Photo taken by Walter Curran Mendenall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on...
Cyanotype photograph of the sternwheelers Wildcat and Thlinket tied up at edge of a beach, probably near Valdez in 1898. Smoke is billowing from the funnel of one steamboat. Photo taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by...
Cyanotype photograph taken from the deck of a schooner, looking across Lynn Canal at a stern wheel steamboat, its deck crowded with passengers. Photograph taken by Walter C. Mendenhall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, led by Edwin...