Title taken from caption. "9208 -- (26) The White men who made packing a business on the Dyea trail in 1898 carried from 75 to 150 pounds at a time, while the Indian packers carried from 100 to 250 pounds each. At short intervals on the left of...
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...
Title taken from caption. " Johnson and Allen and Darling entries, fifth All Alaskan sweepstakes, Siberian vs. American dogs, Nome Alaska 1912 . Lomen Bros, Nome # 863 ".
Cataloguer's note: John Johnson, also known as "The Iron Man"...
Title taken from the back of photograph. "Meal time". Additional information with photo. "Paul Silook Family (L-R) Margaret (wife) - Paul - Henry - Estelle". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title from caption on Album. "At Nenana - The approach of break-up time". [Two people are moving a rowboat across the ice. Across the river is a small wooden building.]
Title taken from note with photo. "Coffee time and round table discussion is being held by these enlisted men of the 'Helping Hand' detachment from Wainwright at Valdez during the aftermath of the quake. (U.S. Army Photo)".
Title taken from caption on slide. "Fort Wainwright HHC 171st." St. Joseph's Hospital at the time of the 1967 flood. To the right is Immaculate Conception Church. Additional note attached indicates that these photographs were taken by Mark...
Title from accompanying notes. "Pete on summit of Mount Bona. Third time Mount Bona had ever been climbed and the first time that Mount Bona had been climbed via West Bona." Mountain climber at summit, he is in red down parka with wolverine...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition taking time to sew up a hole in his clothes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
Transcript of diary kept by Myrtle Ryan (later Bunger) in 1900 that describes her journey to and life in Dawson in the Yukon Territory and Nome, Alaska. Myrtle recounts how she traveled from Los Angeles, California to Skagway by boat in January...
Title taken from caption. View of automobiles, utility poles, and buildings and storefronts in downtown Ketchikan from the deck of the S.S. Yukon. From May's journal, dated May 18th: "Up early in time to see the boat dock at Ketchikan at 6:30 a.m....
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa take a lunch break on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "At Mile 18 [on Lake Kenai] we went in three different parties in a motor boat...
View of damage to buildings in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Large, destroyed building in center tentatively identified as the Penneys Building. Street sign, center left, reads 5th Av. Men, women, and children walk and...
View of damage to buildings in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Large, destroyed building in center tentatively identified as the Penneys Building. Street sign, center left, reads 5th Av. Men, women, and children walk and...
From verso: "Miss Miriam Dickey and Captain Lathrop. Miss Dickey is Secretary-Treasurer of the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Company, and is Capt's "right hand man" in all his other widespread enterprises. It was her interest in radio and its...
Caption: "An Eskimo dance. . .is done by making all kinds of motions with the arms and keeping time with the feet by stamping to the beating of the Eskimo drums. There [are] always five or more drums in the hands of men being struck with a slender...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United ...