Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from verso. Lulu Fairbanks, Austin E. (Cap) Lathrop, and Eva McGowan standing together in Fairbanks, Alaska. From front: "Cap Lathrope [sic], Lulu Fairbanks, Eva McGowan." 1930. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Title from accompanying notes. "On the summit of Mount Bona: Pete's pack in foreground. Looking down onto the Russell Glacier (base camp is down there somewhere)." Flags of the United States of America and Japan are furled together on...
Title taken from front. Group of boys hitched together as a "team" ready to pull a sled, Knik, Alaska. From verso: "l-r. [George] Stanley Herning, Albert Mad[i]son, Clarence Marsh, Allan Horning, Otis Standard, John Stump, Walter Bartholf. i.d. by...
Title from accompanying note. "'After the Tragedy - This group of men, all of whom figured prominently in the life of Ben Eielson, are shown as they stood together at an unidentified location in Fairbanks after Eileson's and Borland's bodies had...
Cyanotype photograph of an Alaska Native man, two women, and a child gather on a beach with a wooden barrel, a pot, and what appears to be fish in the center of the photograph. Several logs are fashioned together around the group. Water is visible...
19 second , black & white/silent film clip. Images include steam powered rotary snowplow and two steam locomotives hooked together passing a tank farm in Seward.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Title taken from front of photo H125. Panoramic view of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad terminal yards in Anchorage, Alaska, with Government Hill and Alaska Engineering cottages in right background and Knik Arm in left background. Buildings...
Title taken from caption. Beulah Marrs (later Beulah Marrs Parisi) (center) with Hank Anderson (right) and another man, standing together in front of Alaska Railroad passenger train and parked cars after her arrival in Anchorage, Alaska. July 1941....
Title from verso. Photograph of Arthur Pitka holding a rifle and a pair of snowshoes. A lynx is hung from the cabin roof at the far left. Indexer's note: Sally Hudson added further information in February of 1989. She wrote that she grew up...
Title taken from verso. Two men operating a stationary single bladed power saw from the deck of a floating dock. A small building is on the far shore. Cord wood floats in the water, cabled together. View across the water from the deck of a...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Title from verso. Two postcards taped together. Front of train car: Shrine Special 1. Storefronts: Fairbanks Buffet; J. L. Sale; Imperial Cigar Store, Pendergraft and Aldridge. Wholesale dealers in candies tobaccos and cigars. Monopole [?]...