The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title from caption. Photograph of steamer at dock. Caption reads: "S. S. Santa Anna at treadwell dock Alaska the treadwell quartz mine is the largest in the world 90 miles from Skagway." Indexer's note: It is impossible to determine if...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from attached note and back of photograph. "Main building approximately 1935 - 1940. Extreme left - Mrs. Clifford Smith, Mrs Harold Jesting (?) from Baltimore, Mrs. Woole, Mrs. Clausen, Mrs Cremeans, Mrs. Austin Gills, Mrs. Rogge,...
Title taken from caption. "'The Artist' Yours truly, H. M. W." An outdoor portrait of H. M. Wetherbee dressed in Alaska Native traditional regalia, boots, a fur hat and holding a rifle. An unidentified man is seen crouched next to him. ...
Title taken from verso. John Urban standing in front of train on railroad tracks in Alaska. Also from verso: "Yours truly at work." Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 2 3/8".
Marjorie Rieman Hall (Mrs. W. B.) sawing a log with men repairing telegraph line for WAMCATS (Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System), Southcentral Alaska. From verso: "Men repairing telephgraft [sic] line and yours truly." n.d....
Front of small wooden building housing Ketchikan's newspaper "Mining Journal", signed "Yours Truly A.P. Swineford"; Swineford standing on porch; unidentified man on his right.
Signature across corner of image reads, Very truly your friend Henry Petersen; Nome, Alaska; May 23rd, 1906. Formal portrait of subject sitting in chair, wearing a tweed suit and holding a large-brimmed hat on his lap.