Physical description: 13 pages, handwritten on yellow legal-sized sheets. Places mentioned: Auk Bay (Alaska) ; Auk Village (Alaska) ; Berners Bay (Alaska) ; Cape St. Elias (Alaska) ; Douglas (Alaska) ; Douglas Island (Alaska) ; Fairheaven...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the stern wheeler Susie at Eagle, Alaska. The narrative in the album states: "The boat below is the 'Susie,' an oil burner, which carried us from Dawson to Stevens Village. This view was taken at Eagle, the...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Truck carrying us to the McKinley Park Headquarters: Carol Howisey on the ground; in the truck, left to right: Marie Working, Al Randall, Bob Working, Chuck Dehart, ? , Bill...
ROUTINE NPG F NR 2503 PLAIN
TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD QUOTE THE LAY OF FINAL VICTORY HAS AT LAST ARRIVED X JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED X HER FLEET WHICH ONCE...
"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
Title from caption. Photograph of Sam the cat on the Rivenburg's roof in Rampart. Narrative in photo album reads: "Picture on the roof of the back entrance to our kitchen in Rampart. Sam lived on whole raw rabbits which I shot with a '22'...
Title from caption in album: "July 30 - On the trail - Two bull caribou approaching us -". Photograph shows a fairly flat landscape of tundra. This photograph is quite dark, caribou can not me seen clearly.
Title from caption. Photograph of Passengers disembarking from a steamship and walking down Moore's Wharf. Caption reads: "Skaguay Bay & town shewing the three wharfs constructed to the left of our dock near bluff at right. These three...
Title from caption: "Carving ice in the Yukon River at Ruby, Alaska. 5 ft. 8 in. thick, Mar. 1, '13." Postcard is postmarked Ruby, Alaska on Mar. 29, 1913 and is addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. R.R. no. 7 Hopkin [Hopkins] Co....
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf with ships tied along it; livestock in pens and bales of hay can be seen at the far right. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf before it was extended & completed, during these years from the period...
Title from verso. "The first Russian military mission to Alaska arrives at Nome in the late summer of 1942. The Russian standing between the US officer in riding breeches and the Yank in the tin hat is Col. Michael Hachin, who remained in...