Photograph label reads: "Mr. Fredrick D. Browne a man of long experience in railroad construction was then placed in charge and from the time of his taking charge work was very rapid and great strides were made - he taking...
Title by indexer. A photo of a woman adjusting her camera, getting ready to take a picture. The wing of an airplane is visible nearby, and two small airplanes are in the background. This may be the person in the foreground of...
Title taken from caption. View of two women hanging beluga whale meat out to dry after a successful whale hunt. The photograph was taken on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska. Behind the woman to the left is a man taking a photograph. In the background...
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...
Caption: After a nose first crash during Wiley Post's round the world solo flight the Winnie Mae has been set upright and is ready to be repaired. The miners of Flat, Alaska, are taking apart the tripod that helped to set the airplane upright.
Caption: Wiley Post poses for a photograph just before taking off to resume his solo flight round the world. The Winnie Mae has just been repaired after hitting a rough patch of tailings at the airstrip in Flat, Alaska and crashing.
(3:11 min.) (08 of 12) Pork-Barrel appointment to judgeships and reactions to Ada being a part of the Constitutional Convention Fairbanks -- before Statehood; territorial form of government -- people had no voice; Washington DC -- grant favors;...
Political cartoon depicting Alaska being carved up by business and governmental interests. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska .22".]
Title taken from front. View of a miner wrapped in a fur-lined skin sleeping bag taking a rest near his sled with his dogs after mushing 60 miles to Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 1079. n.d. Photographer: Goetze.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] 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.
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.
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.
Title taken from front. Photographer W. A. Hesse filming Katmai volcano, Alaska. Also from front: ""copr. 1913" by M. Hohner." 1913. Photographer: M. Hohner. Postcard. Original photograph size: 5 3/8" x 3 3/8".
View of a man taking a photograph of another man standing near trees split by the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Photo taken somewhere in Southcentral Alaska. Image includes a camera, and a body of water in the background.
Winter scene of school children standing on piles of snow on and around school, Valdez, Alaska. From verso: "School first opened in the year 1901. This is the second one on site. Old city hall - 1st school. I taught here taking Mrs. Paine's place....