Title from verso. Full caption on the verso reads, "Here are the Yak. They crossed them with Galloways trying to produce an animal for beef that would winter in the open. Results were disappointing. Meat tough as - ---." Image shows...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two women sewing bark on a birch bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Next as shown below, the women sew the pieces of birch together, sewing over and over. For thread they use the small roots of...
Title from caption. Photograph of two wagons hauling bags of wheat to the grain elevator. Narrative in photo album read: "At right: Hauling bags of wheat to the company elevator in town, four horses are used. This is a dry farming area in...
(3:41 min.) (01 of 24) 01 Early life & family history Raised in Baltimore, MD. Life was tough so he went to sea. Traveled the world. Went to West coast because heard might make more money. In 1934, started with Alaska Steamship Co. ...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. The following letter was written on the back of this photograph. "My dear Louise! Many thanks for your letter. Here is the way the college looked just before the snow came. The west wing, power plant and dormitory were...
Title taken from caption. "Tough going mi 176 west of Nelson." Cataloguer's note: This is a view of a narrow and steep dirt road that is almost at 90 degree angle. Note: The car at the bottom of the climb looks as though it is going to attempt...
Title taken from donor's caption. "George Potter and Bighorns at our camp on McCarthy Creek. Occasionally the monotony was relieved by a sheep hunting expedition but sheep were few in number and wary. Once we shot a big, shaggy mountain goat...
View of a sign in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquqke. Sign is visible in what appears to be a collapsed building. Sign reads - I knew it was tough to make a living in Alaska, we'd go 'into the hole' this bad. Broken glass,...
View of six women in Fairbanks, Alaska sitting at a table, with ashtrays, several packs of cigarettes, a pair of white gloves, pads of paper, and two newspapers sitting on the table. The headline on the newspaper reads: "Khrushchev Takes Tough...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak 1936, the “gang”." From May's journal, dated May 24th: "Today the Doctor spent quite a time taking pictures of the "gang", - we should look pretty tough as none of us have shaved since arriving...
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...
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...
Title taken from verso. View of Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction during winter at Atigun Pass in Brooks Range, Northern Alaska, with workers in foreground and construction equipment in background. 1975? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original...
This was a very talented club and is considered to have been one of the finest in the then territory. However, stern opposition came from Artillery teams Battery B; Battery C and Battery D; U. S. Marines; Army Camp Riley; USN Patrol Squadron; Army ...