Title taken from creator's notes. Notes read: "The main street (from right to left) that went through Ladd Field. (The hospital and headquarters to the right of this picture are not visible). The barracks and housing for civilian workers are...
Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
Title from verso. Verso also reads, "Torn down about 1927 - Fort abandoned at time of World War 1917. I went to Seattle on the "Victoria" with one of the companies in 1917. Andrews." Verso signed C.L.A. Image shows a row of...
Left to right: Mamie, Jimmy and Walter Minanow with their mother, Mrs. Susie Minanow. "She was Mrs. Minanow... she just went by it... she call[ed] herself Susie Minanow, but...
Title from caption. Photograph of the mail carrier leaving Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is the mail carrier leaving the village bound down river. Before we came mail was delivered thus once every four weeks...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Rivenburg and Mr. Decker on the mail launch. Narrative in photo album reads: "Mrs. Rivenburg and Mr. Decker on the N. C. mail launch. She went to Tanana on this launch with Mr. Decker & Mr. Franzell. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of Sam the cat on the Rivenburg's roof in Rampart. Narrative in photo album reads: "Picture on the roof of the back entrance to our kitchen in Rampart. Sam lived on whole raw rabbits which I shot with a '22'...
Title from verso. Men carry a litter across the landscape on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a Navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...
Title from verso. Postcard of False Pass, Alaska as seen from Steamship Victoria. Caption reads No. 1. Verso reads: "This is one of the villages you would see en route to home. It is "False Pass" in the Aleutian Islands. We were here...
Title from verso. Photograph of two young women on the bank of the Kobuk River. Several people are loading wood on a boat to take back to Kotzebue. Verso reads: "I [took a?] trip on this boat up the Kobuk River, a distance of 300 miles. ...
Title from image. Photograph of the damage done to the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Skagway, Alaska after an attempted robbery. Caption reads: "Wreck of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Skaguay Alaska, bu a man whose name was unknown &...
Title from caption. Photograph of Passengers disembarking from a steamship and walking down Moore's Wharf. Caption reads: "Skaguay Bay & town shewing the three wharfs constructed to the left of our dock near bluff at right. These three...
This is an illustrated Christmas card postmarked from Devine, Texas in April, year unreadable. Postcard is addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Tex. [Texas] and reads, "Dear Papa, we are all well. Everything all...
(3:58 min.) (13 of 27) Problems with cooks
Camp cooks were brothers, and cooks were good as long as they were sober. One went to Livengood after an argument and got drunk. When he returned and his brother got off shift, he cut up all the...
(4:02 min) (02 of 17) First job Bill Shoddy & George Gilbertson. Roomed at Francis Doyle's boarding house now National Bank of Alaska, in the Northward Building-$68 a month. Went to look at the University, if he enrolled at University room...
(3:06 min) (04 of 17) Flying business
June '47 bought an airplane and started work mostly near Aniak, Fairbanks, Circle, Fort Yukon wound up in Central. Went to Globe Arizona in the winters to take classes in air mechanic and everything...
(3:15 min) (05 of 17) Back to teaching
Bad fire season too many people crashing. Took job flying for Trans-ocean airways, then flew Korean air lift for military. After war too much competition from Wien Airways so went back to teaching. ...
(4:02 min) (07 of 17) Being a live coward
Single engine planes are dangerous, no back-up. Coastal Geodetic Survey Tigvariak Island. Had to get them to Barter Island--white out cloud cover turned around and went back passenger complained.