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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Title from caption in album: "Oct 3 - Same toward Outside Mt. showing woods + willows frosted - this frost falling in a clear day and gathering on the trees ushered in the winter". Photograph shows a man holding the reins of a horse. The horse...
Title from caption in album. Rapid flowing river with trees and boulders alongside. [Probably Lucky Shot Trail is what is today Lucky Shot Mine Rd, in the valley northwest of Bullion Mountain.]
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. An Alaska willow, sandblasted clean on one side after the Katmai eruptions, with growth only from buds on the other side. Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Cora Rivenburg standing on the porch of a log building. Narrative in the album reads: "On the front porch of the residence part of our dwelling. Part of willow basket in lower corner, which I made from...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from caption of photograph UAF-2009-123-90, current caption in album: "Oct 3 - Same". Photograph shows a man holding the reins of a horse. The horse is carrying packs along with what appears to be caribou skins and antlers. They are...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Flood plain ice formed from freezing of winter seepage overflow. On Joe Creek about a half a mile below crossing of 141st meridian. July 7, 1912. This ice was not noted in 1911 and seems to...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Flood plain ice formed from freezing of winter seepage overflow. On Joe Creek about a half a mile below crossing of 141st meridian. July 7, 1912. This ice was not noted in 1911 and seems to...