Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
Sidney Connor walks along a boardwalk in the deserted mining town of Latouche, site of the former Beatson mine of the Kennecott Copper Corporation. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
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 from caption. Photograph shows A.E.C. camp no. 9 at mile 394.5. A row of tents are set up, as a person walks in front of them far in the distance. April of 1918. Caption also reads: "No. 122, A. J. Johnson, Official Photographer A.E.C."
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 from image caption Full title: Dredge on Swanson or Allene Creek on Teller-Shishmaref Trail; a man checks a loaded sled, while another man walks among the resting dog teams; in background is gold mining dredge