Dog team and sled stand in front of M.B. Holland's house in Seward, Alaska. Women and children wait for musher to give them a ride. 1905-1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from creator's notes. Notes read: "A case of 'hurry up and wait.' These fellas had orders to meet someone down town but the other party didn't show." These two soldiers are sitting on the hood of a jeep, probably an ordnance jeep...
Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Visible are Riverside Hotel, Model Cafe, sign "Drug Store" on corner building, sign with downward-pointing "rocket" reading "Rick's" or "Brick's", flag of N.C. Company hanging between two smokestacks. A...
Title by indexer. Image shows a man wearing glasses, jeans and a white shirt holding a metal pail up to the mouth of a musk ox. Several other musk oxen wait in a line for their turn. The man and musk oxen appear to be inside an animal pen....
Title from verso. Photograph of a team firing a mortar. Verso reads: "Right in the thick of action on Attu, hurling their trench mortar shells over a ridge into a Japanese position, these soldiers go about their job casually. Note the...
Title taken from attached note. Title taken from attached note. ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps). A soldiers is seen shooting a rifle, while the others wait their turn.
A mother and children appear to wait in a waiting room. Two paper cups bear the sign of the American Red Cross. Title taken from note with photo. "Citizens numbering about 115 of Valdez were evacuated to Fairbanks, via 3 Alaska Overland...
Title from accompanying notes. "Plane that crunched: the owner will wait until the snow's pretty much gone before trying to fix it. These dogs are working dogs, meaning they piss & shit on the run, and that smells." Dog team and airplane...
Title taken from verso. Service men wait in line to enter canteen in USO building in Anchorage, Alaska, while other men and two women (one holding a cat) sit on couches in foreground. Also from verso: "Note the skin and the walrus head on the wall,...
Tourists look at the Model T Ford railroad car and open-air cars, their "express", at the old train depot in McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is in the foreground. From caption: "Our passengers are arriving at the depot to board the "express" which...
Title taken from caption. Men on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne wait in the "lee of Ananolak Island" (i.e. Anangula Island or Ananiuliak Island) for safe passage to Nikolski. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 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 taken from front. View of group of old Russian cannons, Unalaska, Alaska. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "This is one of the places I have not seen. You deserve a word, no I shall not wait till I get one of a more familiar place....
Title taken from verso. View of 4th Avenue Theatre with crowds waiting to enter and cars on street, Anchorage, Alaska. Other business shown: Eckmann's Furniture Store. 1948. Photographer: D.C. Knudsen. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. Group of dogs wait at river bank for food from boat on Yukon River, Fort Yukon, Alaska, with people standing along bank and buildings in background. 1920's? Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Title taken from verso. View of ATCO manafactured housing sitting along ice road (Hickel Highway) between Four Corners and site for Prospect Creek Camp during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. March 1970. Photographer: Steve...
Title from sleeve. Children and adults wait in line to purchase candy at an outdoor venue. A boy walks away eating cotton candy. A sign on the wall of the food vendor shack reads in part: 'Point [Commu]nity [Cl]ub].' Possibly Anchor Point? 2 1/4...