Title from sleeve. View down a street in Ketchikan, with Tongass Narrows on left. Wooden buildings line both sides of street, and cars are parked along the curb. Large multi-story buildings and communications towers in background. 'McKay Marine...
Title from sleeve. Also on sleeve: 'Sen. John Butrovich FBX chairman [left], Frank Peratrovich [Right rear], Sen. Vic Rivers [next with pipe], Sen. Jim Nolan.' Six men sit in a small bookcase-lined room at a meeting of the state House Ways and...
Title by cataloger. Portrait photograph of Alfred and Bessie in front of a log building. Narrative in the album reads: "Here are Bessie and Alfred, an educated progressive couple. Bessie was one of my pupils for a time. Alfred wished to copy...
Title from caption. Photograph of Theodore and his son Robert in a birch bark canoe on the Yukon River. Narrative in photo album reads: "Theodore and son Robert. This shows well the beautiful, graceful lines on the birch-bark canoe. A single...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "McGonagall Pass itself as seen from a little ways up Oastler Mt. Climbers can be seen moving from left to right on either side of the Pass."
Cataloguer's note: A glimpse of life in the sub-arctic -- One of the many creative ways of using man's best friend. This photograph shows how dogs (that look like pets), were used as beasts of burden. The picture looks as if it came from the...
Title by indexer. This is a half-length black and white portrait photograph of Morris Thompson (1939-2000). Thompson an Athabascan was born and raised in the Yukon River village of Tanana. A well respected leader, he had served his community in...
Title taken from caption. "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."
World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...
Title taken from the back of the photograph. " Seal skin pokes and walrus skin swings ". Cataloguer's note: The grils are playing on the swing, as the suspended sealskin hangs overhead.
Among the indigenous people of Alaska, the seal...
Daryl Miller is interviewed by Dave Krupa on April 27, 2000 in Talkeetna, Alaska. Miller discusses his personal background and how he was introduced to climbing; his first climbing experience on Denali; not summitting on his first attempt and the...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Tom Edwards, Glennallen, Mr. Henry Eichman, St. Louis Red Cross disaster director, and George Ashby, Civil Defense head for Glennallen - Copper Center area of Alaska. Discussing the ways...
Title taken from caption. "Stages meeting on the Delta. Fairbanks-Valdez trail. Photo by Johnson." Drivers and passengers pose for a photo when two horse-drawn sleighs, heading opposite ways on the Valdez Trail, cross paths.
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.