Includes forecast of wind and weather in the North Pacific for July, U.S. weather and temperature signals, U.S. storm signals, fog signals, time ball, steamer routes from Brito to Yokohama and Hongkong, equator crossings for sailing passages in the...
Title from accompanying notes. There are seven men outside several yellow tents. The wind on the mountains is stirring up the snow in the background. Guy lines for the tents are marked with pink flagging.
Title from accompanying notes. "21 April. Moving up from Camp 2 to Camp 3 at the Col."> Hikers going up the mountain, snow and wind obscuring some of the view, two yellow flags mark the trail.
Some wood buildings, presumably homes, are snowed in. It appears that much of the snow was blown in by wind. Three people in the foreground are taking in the scene.
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows wind blowing snow around on a hillside. A mountains sits in the distance. Caption from finding aid reads "Skilak Lake". Location is near Skilak Lake, Alaska.
Title from caption. Photograph of a Wyoming desert. Narrative in photo album reads: "This is not a cultivated field, but a barren, sandy desert in Wyoming. The small mounds were too hard to be eroded by the wind blown sand."
Title from verso. Aerial photograph of landing barges bringing supplies to the American forces fighting on Attu Island. Verso reads: "Attu -- Crates of supplies litter the beach of Attu as landing barges bring more supplies ashore to...
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,...
(4:15 min) (19 of 27) Haul Road -- Bettles
Once they made it to Bettles they had to refit equipment. There was too much wind north of Bettles, canvas was okay for a while but had to build with more substantial metal and wood. Snow ramps to...
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.
The following is the text on...
Title by cataloguer. "Director of Information University of Alaska Box 1003, College, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: A quintet wind band is seen here during one of it's practice session.
Title taken from accompanying note. A studio portrait of a mixed band. The musicians appear to be dressed for a performance with the instruments in display.
Title taken from text. Album caption: An unsuccessful attempt to get a view of the "Glory Hole", a crater about 500 feet in depth, six or eight miles below McCallum. The line runs down into this hole and is a source of frequent interruption. ...
Title from verso. "Bellanca Pace maker. 330 hp. Wright whirl wind engine circa 1934 probably Iliamna Country. Star Airlines photo from Dorothy Loftus. Kay Kennedy Mail: 12831 N. E. 83rd St. Kirkland, Wa. 98033." The tail of this float plane is...