Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
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 verso. The following is from a caption attached to the back of the photograph: "As a Twenty-eight-year-old graduate student in 'human geography,' Don Charles Foote traveled to Point Hope under an AEC research contract. For...
Title taken from verso. View of three men looking out from the window of the roadhouse on Birch Creek near the Steese Highway in Interior Alaska. This roadhouse location was known as Ferry Road House. From verso: "Birch Creek Roadhouse. Was a...
Title taken from image.Text of program: Band concert, United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, Director.Program includes a march by Alessandro Vessella, titled "President Harding." President Harding's party traveled to Alaska in 1923 aboard the...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Crevasses, Itivdliarsuk glacier." View of members of Alfred Barton's party, a group that traveled with Peary to Greenland in 1896, taking measuring temperatures in crevasses on a glacier.
Title taken from caption on Album. "Moses Cruikshank, was a youth of Fort Yukon he had spent nine years at St. Mark's Mission. He was big, strong and reliable and knew dogs and sledding. He was Archdeacon Drane's assistant and trail companion,...
Title supplied by cataloger. Dog teams lining up. Mushers stand at start with teams stretched out in front of them. Three-day race traveled 25 miles each day from Knik Lake on a portion of the Iditarod Trail. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title from verso. Photograph shows a group of children and adults posing by a trailer at Golden Gate International Exposition site at Treasure Island in San Francisco. A group of eight boys from Presidio Junior HIgh School traveled to Alaska as...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "On Long Lake enroute to Hot Springs. Traveled over 2,500 miles with the team 2 years ago. George." Photo attributed to George Lockyear by collection donor. George Lockyear served in the United States...
Title from verso. Verso also stamped: "P.L. Tait. Printing & Enlarging. Quesnel, B.C." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a...
Title from verso. Image shows a white man dressed in Native fur clothing standing by the door to a cabin. Individual may be Calvin Townsend who worked as a game warden for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries starting in 1913. Calvin Townsend...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of passengers on the Cottage City (Ship) travelling to Alaska. They are standing in front of a lifeboat. Narrative in the album states: "The view below is of a small part of the passengers on the 'Cottage City',...
View of Valdez from a distance. This photograph was most likely taken from the ship Alameda in March 1920 when Irving Reed traveled from Seattle to Seward by boat so that he could travel the Iditarod Trail. See his...
View down Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska on March 15, 1920. The store on the left looks like it says Brown & Hawkins. Another photograph (AMRC-b65-2-4) says there is a Brown & Hawkins store on 4th Avenue. There was...