The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title taken from caption. View of new pussy willow growth, growing horizontally in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Vertical growth has been sandblasted by ash, blowing in the wind, and destroyed. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. View of Walter Metrokin, a packer with the 1917 expedition, scoring a board to turn it in to a washboard for doing laundry. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak – 1936. Above the creek." View of a shed on a hill overlooking Pea Creek on Kodiak Island. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Title taken from caption. View of the whale processing facilities at Port Hobron. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Approaching Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. A view of the U.S. Navy cargo ship Sirius. The U.S.S. Sirius was assigned to the Naval Transportation Service. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of a pond filled with volcanic ash and the few water lilies growing out of it on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from front. Painting of rescue crew, the schooner "Greyhound", and ships in background during storm, Nome, Alaska, July 1906. Photographer's number 927. 1906? Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from front. View of large rock island near Unga, Alaska. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number G1337. n.d. Photographer: P.S. Hunt.
Title taken from front. View of ice in bay, Knik Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G327." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G327. March 1, 1917. Photographer: P.S. Hunt. Original photograph size: 6 1/4" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from verso. View of automatic welding machine attached to pipeline during construction of Trans-Alaska Pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. June 23, 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
Title taken from verso. View of construction workers packing down material around pipes in trenches in permafrost area south of Pump Station Number 1 at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. June 1975. Photographer: Steve...
Title taken from verso. Construction crew with drilling machinery during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction down the hill from Old Man Camp, south of Arctic Circle near Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in Interior Alaska. June 1975. Photographer:...