(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 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...
Title from caption in album. Two teams of horses and their freight load of lumber stopped on a winter road or trail. One man is pointing in a direction off or ahead of the trail. The carts are filled with large lumber rafters or beams.
Title from accompanying notes. A red-and-white Volkswagen minibus is stopped in front of a mountain range on the Alcan in spring. (Cataloger's note: if this is just before Haines Junction, then the location is Yukon, not Alaska, and the...
Title from image. An outdoor portrait of Jimmie Mattern. This photograph may have been taken during one of Mattern's visits to Alaska. In 1933, during his solo flight around the world he stopped in Nome, Alaska. Again in 1937 Mattern was in...
Title from accompanying notes. "Climbers on summit of West Bona. It'd never been climbed before, so another first ascent for Pete and climbers." Team of mountain climbers stopped for a picture taking opportunity at mountain's summit. All...
Title taken from caption. View of people around train stopped at Copper River and Northwestern Railway depot at Cordova, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
A porch on the front of a log building in McGrath, Alaska. From verso: "Unique bird's post porch. McGrath. Where we stopped by airplane to deliver mail. July 3, 1928."
Title taken from caption. Members of the expedition await the arrival of the launch from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. From May's journal, dated June 4th: "We were all digging away yesterday morning when we heard the Tally whistling....
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.