Title taken from notes. " This is ______. He is cleaning off tusks of walrus which he will carve. I think that is his granddaughter. Property of Leighton Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD."
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...
Title from accompanying notes. Hundreds of cattle in their range at the base of a mountain. A car and a pickup truck are near the fence, and a red and white Volkswagen minibus is in the foreground.
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. "Hat & Pepi. Think this is at Tok." Two men sit on the back of a snowmobile, the rear one waving. Behind them are utility poles, electric and telephone lines, several white,...
Three cars are lined up outside a house in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is examining the third car, a jeep. The middle car was President Warren G. Harding's touring car when he visited Valdez, Alaska. From caption: "The car in the...
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Title taken from caption. View of many boats, buildings and people on the pier at Juneau. From May's journal, dated May 19th: "About 8 a.m. this morning we docked at Juneau, the capital of Alaska. ...Juneau is by far the nicest town we have seen...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Altho one might think this snap was taken in the sun, actually it was raining hard." From May's journal, dated July 26th: "Our dish washing is a very simple affair. We have not gas enough to heat hot...
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Anastasia Hodikoff of Attu in 1936. From May's journal, dated July 26th: "After church I got the Chief's wife to let me take a picture of her making an Attu basket. I think she rather liked the idea, for she...
Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
Title taken from caption. Handwritten sign posted on a building in Anchorage after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. The sign reads: "I knew it was tough to make a living in Alaska, but I didn't think we'd go 'in the hole' this bad!"
View of a sunken building in Anchorage, Alaska damaged by the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Hand-made sign reads I knew it was tough to make a living in Alaska, but I didn't think we'd go "in the hole" this bad. Shadow of photographer seen at the...
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.
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.
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.
Postcard shows view of buildings, Seward, Alaska. Buildings shown include Bank of Seward and U.S. Marshal's office. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "Bu[i]ld[i]ng on corner was (& I still think [is]) the Bank of Seward when I lived there...
Title taken from front. Postcard shows winter view of Valdez, Alaska taken from docks, with person walking along dock. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "Valdez Alaska. Tues[day] Jan 30, 1923. Here I am. What do you think of it? Cold feet?? I...
Two men standing beside World War II sign forbidding civilian photography, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Text of sign: "He likes your snapshots. Civilian cameras, binoculars & firearms forbidden on this reservation. Think before you snap." 1941-1945....
Title taken from verso. Also on item: "40's I think EHT."" View of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage showing Rexall Drugs. A sign reading "Pickup military personnel here" is posted on the lawn next to a short picket fence. 4x5 contact print, 3x4 neg