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',...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "David Frankson was the Point Hope postmaster. (Mail arrived by air three times a week from Kotzebue, weather permitting and pilot willing. When Bishop Gordon was priest-in-charge at Point...
Full note reads: "1949 08 Seine fishing for Chum salmon on the Kobuk River. This fish was dried on rocks for the winter food for the sled dogs. It was the mainstay for these animals and was heated and fed twice...
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. Either in 1937 or 1938. Dam gates are open to clean the mud out of the pond. Dam had to be cleaned up once or twice a month." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 5, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. Esther Schaubel, whose rounds brought her to Point Hope once or twice a year, was a splendid source of Arctic Coast gossip, delivered along with immunizations, etc.
Title taken from caption. From May's journal, dated June 29th: "By evening we had reached False Pass, which flows between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. ...Beyond the Pass lay Round Top, Isnotski [sic] and Sheshaldin [sic], the three most...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title supplied by cataloger. Log cabin in winter with powerlines running behind cabin. Cabin has been added onto at least twice. Two cats sit in snow packed driveway leading to cabin. Slide printed 7/1976. Slide carousel unlabeled. Original format:...
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign with facts about Alaska posted on Alaska Highway, possibly near border between Alaska and Canada. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Facts on Alaska. Alaska is twice as large as Texas, covering...
Men loading frozen reindeer onto Northern Consolidated Airlines floatplane from wagon at U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island...
Title taken from verso. View of building housing Alaska Water, Light & Power, Valdez, Alaska. Also from verso: "On Sugar Loaf Mt. 1908. Upper plant, Solomon's Gulch, Alaska Water, Light & Power Co. There was also a lower plant using the same water...
Title from image View of the front of Jimmy's store, with produce and magazines on display; two women, a cat, and a man are outside Note beneath photo reads, "This Greek was quite Dawson character; burned out twice. Will Rogers was...