Title taken from front. A car stopped at mile 33 on the Moose Pass Highway which is now the Seward Highway on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 1940? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title from accompanying notes. "20 April. Shige at Camp 1." Mountain climber stopped to pose for the camera on the trail, there are six other men on the trail in front of him. He is tethered with rope and has sunglasses, quilted mittens, and...
Caption: "Mile 33 1/2, Route 4K, Fbks dist 7/22/37". A car, followed by either a pickup truck or a flatbed trailer, is stopped at the side of the rode; a person is standing at the car's open door. A crack, possibly...
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title from caption. Photograph of a church and belfry near Lake Bennett. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right an abandoned church of the gold rush days standing all by itself near Lake Bennet where miners stopped for some rest in their...
(6:33 min.) (05 of 12) Building bases and prep for Attu 30,000 men working total--civilian contractors did lots of work--DeLong--General Tally--Cold Bay task force to retake Attu--General Buckner--Alaska scouts--12,000 men in first two...
(2:57 min) (10 of 19) Driving the Richardson Road #2 Thompson Pass too steep; had to be pulled; didn't have fuel pumps back then. 7 days to Fairbanks. Stopped at the News Miner offices and Pete Steele's Grocery.
07 Followed the lend-lease path (6:32 min.) (07 of 09)
Back then you had to check in with customs every time you stopped. Margaret met up with two others bound for Alaska (Major Ware and Joe Barber), and they figured to save money by taking the...
Title taken from caption. "9715 -- (29) The majority of those who crossed the pass stopped either at Lake Linderman or Lake Bennett for the purpose of constructing boats for the journey down the Yukon. The advance of the crusaders rendered it...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "We stopped for sleep after getting through the Lower Icefall. This is the view from Pete Haase's sleeping bag looking down the Muldrow Glacier."
Title from photograph. Verso: Sept. 1924 a charter flight with engineer Ingram & Secretary Sandy Sanders on Attempted flight to Kantishna. Two days tried to get them in there but low ceiling persisted and I landed them here on a 300 ft. bar on...
Color photograph of a campaign car for the Bartlett campaign. The car has posters affixed to the grill and the side and stopped on a gravel road with mountains in the background.
Title taken from caption on Album. "The people of Tetlin. Jack Singlet & Ole Esbloom to the right ". On the occasion of the funeral ceremony for Chief David of Tetlin. From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Ole Esbloom the trader...