Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Alternate title on verso within ornamental border. Based on discoveries by Verrazano. First map to show the two American continents as being attached, also names the Pacific Ocean and depicts Japan. Predominant...
The inside of a building is decorated for May Day, 1902 in Nome, Alaska. This is Golden Gate Hall and is very similar to photos UAF-1985-122-157 and UAF-1985-122-158, though of different events. The room is decorated...
View of several houses in Savoonga, Alaska. Visible are many people going about their daily life, with at least half a dozon dogs throughout the photograph. A frame is stretching a hide on the roof of one house and out front of that house is a...
Title from verso. Caption on verso also reads, "Barn, house and field. University Farm." Image shows a barn and other farm buildings in a field on a hillside. Several shocks of some plant (maybe peas?) are placed throughout the field. ...
Shows Hudsons Bay, Baffins Bay, the east coast of Canada including Newfoundland, Iceland, Arctic Europe and Arctic Asia. Shows Greenland as being attached to Canadian Arctic, and includes "Bas" south of Iceland. Incomplete representation of...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Interior view of the Empress Theater, erected 1927. Written on the right side is The Empress Fairbanks Alaska. World's Farthest North Theater. Fireproof Construction Throughout. Erected 1927.
Hand colored. Latin and English with text in French on verso. Includes decorative cartouche, small illustrations of ships throughout, and coat of arms and dedication to Guilielmo Backer de Corneliis. From the Blaeus' Theatrum orbis terrarum,...
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...
2 min, 54 sec film clip, color/sound. Title frame identifies clip as color/silent. Senator Ted Stevens discusses an amendment proposed by Sen. Paul Tsongas to the Alaska Lands Act, particularly, its effect on mining operations and...
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
"After sorting, the grass blades are gathered in neat bundles and hung out to cure. Whenever a rain shower came along all the curing grass bundles throughout the village were whisked out of sight as if by magic." (Olaus J. Murie, Circa 1937)
Title taken from caption. "As throughout the project , moving the mission house, the last building to make the trip, could begin only after the ground had frozen hard." Color photo.
Title taken from caption. "Revenue Cutter ' Bear' arriving at Valdez, Alaska Sept. 26, 1908 with Japanese seal poacher." Cataloguer's note: From 1874 - 1913 the Revenue Cutter Service operated under the authority of the United States...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- 'X' Marks the spot -- Anchorage's Mt. McKinley building [later known as the McKay Building] shows the common 'X' shaped cracks that marred many Alaskan buildings,...
Title from caption. "'Meet me at the Fountain' Glass Block, Findlay, Ohio." An interior view of a two-story building with a fountain as its centerpiece. Merchandise is displayed throughout the large space, with an apparent dining area, a...
Title by cataloger. Three men at work. The man on the left is wearing checkered bell-bottoms or loon pants which was a style typical of the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.
Title from verso. "James L. Anderson photo duplicated by Jerome Lardy June, 1979." The photo may be printed from a glass plate; it is lined with distinct and numerous cracks throughout.