Title taken from attached note. "This is a valuable picture. It shows the College basketball team in 1927 or 1928 (I am not sure) on their trip to Southern Alaska. It looks like Ketchikan. Reading from left to right: Pres. Charles E. Bunnell...
Title taken from creator's notes. The notes read: "If you overlap slide 30 and slide 28 (1999-204-112 and 110) you can see that it is a continuation to the west down the street at Ladd Field. However, Cecil is not able to identify the...
Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph of the deep end of the swimming pool with many swimmers watching another diving off the diving board. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Brockman's house in Wiseman, 1954. This is one of those occasions when a photo printed on paper with a postcard format on the back was actually used as a postcard. Message...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mt. McKinley (Denali). Narrative in photo album read: "I am not sure whether this is Mt. McKinley. It was taken in that vicinity."
"The river steamer Yukon, with barge, bringing supplies for Ott and Scheel at Eagle, Alaska. June 4th 1928. You can be sure all the residents able to walk were down there to welcome her. The huge rock bluff called Chutatutla in the background." ...
Title from caption: "Joe [Roy?] and Co. [illegible words] Dump Trail Creek-Ruby gold mining district, 1913. Written on the verso, "Dear Mama, your letter of May [?] at hand. I am all O.K. and glad to hear from you. I am as you imagoned...
(6:50 min.) (10 of 27) Right-of-way issues
Standards of alignment, grade & bridges. Some were location dependent. Engineers' suggestions and approval process, no requirement for acquiring right-of-way. People always wanted roads to their...
(5:27 min) (09 of 27) Flying for fur buyers
Leo Kay member of the Koslosky family. Fairbanks, Ruby, Hughes, Kobuk, Shungnak, Kiana, Kotzebue then Nome. Maime Wig's Roadhouse ran into Jim McGoffin, & (Muskrat) Johnnie Schwagler. Took off...
(5:35 min.) (08 of 24) 08 Spring preparations. Rust preventation on ship. Liked to work on the SS Aleutian -- a nice ship and a fast one. Assistant Steward assisted passengers, cleaned cabins before the next passengers were brought aboard,...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Bill Van de Graaff and Pierre Juillerat at 17,700ft camp. If I remember correctly, Pierre did all the cooking in his tent because he wasn't sure about the cooking abilities of...
Title taken from caption. The following letter was written on the back of this photograph. "My dear Louise! Many thanks for your letter. Here is the way the college looked just before the snow came. The west wing, power plant and dormitory were...
Title taken from the back of photograph. " Country store the same the world over ". Accompanying information with photo. The men are identified: (L to R): Willard Kamengook (sp?), Luther Stugruk, Oscar Oitillan, Homer Apatiki, Lloyd Oovi. Not...
Title taken from notes. " Eskimo children 1940 not sure (looks somewhat like the Koozoata (?) family)." Additional notes read: " This is dried stuff for insulation between layers ". Property of Leighton Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD.
Title taken from back of photograph Older and young people's church group possibly waiting for the church bell to ring for their class at 2:00 P. M. on Sunday. Play ground near the mission building. Additional notes indicate that the man to...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...