Title by indexer. Image shows vegetables, flowers, grains and herbs exhibited on a wooden table inside a showroom. A table runner consisting of three stripes hangs from the edge of the table. The top stripe shows several rows of stars. A...
Title from verso. Image shows vegetables, flowers, grains and herbs exhibited on a wooden table inside a showroom. A table runner consisting of three stripes hangs from the edge of the table. The top stripe shows has several stars on it. A...
Title from verso. Photograph of a camp during the advance across Attu Island. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay." "Attu Island--When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and...
Title from indexer. Photograph of Benny Moore on a stars & stripes bedecked horse. Writing on the photo reads: "Benny 4th of July 1898. Skagway Al. My son Benny."
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Title from caption. Photograph of a wagonload of mukluks. The wagon bears the marking "no. 1" and appears to belong to Company E of the 30th Infantry. Two soldiers are on the wagon seat; a man standing in the street might be a soldier. A...
Title from caption. Photograph of a wagonload of mukluks. The wagon bears the markings "no. 1" and appears to belong to Company E of the 30th Infantry. Two soldiers are on the wagon seat; a man standing in the street might be a soldier. ...
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor pulling into the dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Caption also says: "The USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, a war veteran wearing a chevron." A chevron is painted on the smoke stack of the ship....
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Men can be seen on the decks of the ship as well as waiting on the docks. The United States flag is flying from the rear of the ship and a chevron is painted on...
View of building painted with a Christmas theme in North Pole, Alaska. Pictures painted on the building include Santa Claus, reindeer, sleigh, Christmas tree, igloo, log cabin and cache, and red and white stripes. Sign on the building reads:...
Cyanotype photograph of an unidentified Alaska Native man, several women and children in front of a striped tent. Additional tents and wooden buildings are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction camp at Falls Creek along Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G315." Letter from verso: "Falls Creek, Alaska, May 13, 1917. Editor Alaska Railroad...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
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...