These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title supplied by cataloger. Slide labeled, 'Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibit Box P, Palmer, Alaska. Valley girl with her pet wolf pups. Photo by Walt Williams. 27.' Slide box labeled, 'Misc.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Title taken from caption. View of a house and its front yard in Kodiak. The yard is covered in equisetum also known as horsetails. Robert F. Griggs wrote in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes "Of all the native plants the the one which...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts sluice boxes and other mining equipment set up at the No. 6 Eldorado gold mine in the Klondike River Valley in the Yukon Territory in Canada, circa 1896-1898. Behind the equipment are miners working and...
View of a woman walking on a log to cross a stream. Robert F. Griggs in his book "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" stated that three of the expedition members' wives visited the park in 1919 and that these were the only women to do so during this...
Title taken from front. Winter view along Tanana Mines Railroad (also known as Tanana Valley Railroad) tracks, Fairbanks, Alaska. Also from front: "Publ. for Chisholm & Hall's Bookstore." Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 3/8".
A sign offering a chance to win a car. The sign reads "Win this Beautiful '58 Cadillac. $1Tickets on Sale Everywhere. Tanana Valley Fair, Aug 14-15-16-17. Drawing August 17 9pm. Tanana Valley Fairgrounds 2 Mile College Road."
Title from caption in album. Rapid flowing river with trees and boulders alongside. [Probably Lucky Shot Trail is what is today Lucky Shot Mine Rd, in the valley northwest of Bullion Mountain.]
Descriptive Narrative: Playing cards (all original 52) and leather case. White Pass & Yukon Route. Different scenes.
History: Gift of Caryl Sale Krug and John W. Krug, 1998. Collected by William W. Sale and Neeta Tobey Sale, residents of Nome,...
Title by cataloger. Water pipeline in narrow valley of a river. The line is topped with planks of wood made for walking the length of the pipeline. In the distance, a wooden bridge is build on top of the pipeline where it appears to cross the...
Title taken from sign on building. View of Wasilla Public Library in log building, Wasilla, Alaska. Photo and verso appear to be materials connected with a fund raising drive for the library. From verso: "8th Annual Matanuska Valley Fair. Palmer,...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition washing up after a month in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The trees have all been stripped of leaves, branches, and bark by the ash blowing in the wind. Photo taken at what was later...