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.
Diary kept by Harold Pomeroy in 1949 during his preparations for and first year of homesteading at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula. 315 pages. In the diary, Harold documents lists of supplies gathered for homesteading, his drive...
Title from verso. "Wilkins. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." In 1927 Explorer George Hubert Wilkins led the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition. This was Wilkins's second venture into the Arctic. The plane, a Stinson-Detroit biplane which was...
Title taken from caption. "11503 -- (9) Those who have never witnessed the breaking up of the ice on the lakes and rivers in the interior of Alaska, will find it difficult to appreciate the enormous quantity of ice which moves with the opening...
Title taken from caption. "11507 -- (5) The stories we read of life in the Arctic usually persuade us to believe that only the most robust persons should venture into those latitudes, and then only when well provided with an ample wardrobe of...
View of sign on Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refinery Company office building at Sagavanirktok River in Northern Alaska. Sign reads: "Sag River State No. 1. Atlantic Richfield-Humble. This well is the confirmation well of the...