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.
Title from verso. Photograph of a village in the Aleutian Islands. Date of 6/13/42 on verso probably relates to when the photo was used by Acme rather than when it was taken. Words in brackets are crossed out and a note is written...
Aerial view of Sparrevohn Dome (possibly radome?) at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Title supplied by cataloger. Tip of Mount McKinley visible. Slide labeled, 'Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibit Box P, Palmer, Alaska. Matanuska Valley & Mt. McKinley fr Pioneer Peak-by Wayne Burkhart.' Original format: 35mm color slide
A desk set made as a gift for President William Howard Taft from the people of Fairbanks and the Tanana Valley. Originally had a walrus tusk as the base, now has a walnut reproduction as the base. Gold butt plate with dedication, gold tip cover,...
Title taken from caption. Crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris holding a bald eagle he'd shot. From May's journal, dated June 19th: "Some of the boys from the Morris came ashore to hunt eagles, but only one of them was successful. The...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 1:07 minutes MPG format. About 350 miles off the western coast of Alaska, in the Bering Sea, lie the Pribilof Islands. The more northerly of these windswept, treeless, volcanic islands is St. Paul Island. Clouds...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 1:01 minutes MPG format. About 350 miles off the western coast of Alaska, in the Bering Sea, lie the Pribilof Islands. The more northerly of these windswept, treeless, volcanic islands is St. Paul Island. Clouds...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. About 350 miles off the western coast of Alaska, in the Bering Sea, lie the Pribilof Islands. The more northerly of these windswept, treeless, volcanic islands is St. Paul Island. Clouds...
Wooden spoon; bowl, handle tip, small band in center of handle all painted dark red, black figure on spoon bowl; tip of bowl broken off and repaired. Measures 17.5 in. long.¬ulture: Central Yup'ik
Shows portion of Chiachi Island, located on SW tip of Alaska Peninsula near present-day Perryville. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "From a survey by Act'g. Assist. W.H. Dall and party, 1874." "Issued July,...
Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
Title taken from front. Frank Glaser sits in front of log building with silver tip grizzly hides from bears he shot mounted on walls, Interior Alaska. Also from front: "Phot. of F. Glaser." From verso: "4 silvertips killed by F. Glaser in 20...
Title taken from front. Body of silver tip grizzly bear shot during hunt in Interior Alaska. Also from front: "Phot. by F. Glaser." Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's. Photographer: F. Glaser. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4...
Title taken from verso. Silver tip grizzly bear killed during hunt in Interior Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's. Photographer: F. Glaser. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4 3/4".
A moosehide sheath with strap of dentalia shells and beads. Sheath (length 30 cm.) made of moosehide. Tip of sheath replaced with new piece of moosehide. Moosehide fringe around sheath tip. Sheath decorated with dentalia shells, and beads (dark...
Moosehide sheath with strap of dentalia shells and beads. Sheath (length 30 cm.) made of moosehide. Tip of sheath replaced with new piece of moosehide. Moosehide fringe around sheath tip. Sheath decorated with dentalia shells, and beads (dark blue,...