2 maps on one sheet. Shows sailing routes and distances. Relief shown by hachures. From The volume library /Henry W. Ruoff. Components: Map of Alaska -- Map of Hawaii. Page 47. Map of Philippine Islands on verso.
The James Edwin Morrow Photographs consist of 121 color transparencies and slides with images of various places in Alaska taken in the early to mid 1960s and in 1971. Subjects include Chicken, Ninilchik, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Kenai, Seldovia,...
Title from caption. Photograph of Jim Carse rowing his boat. Narrative in photograph reads: "Two views of Jim Carse in his Yukon boat. He was a wood chopper and owned a set of Shakespear's works"
Title from caption. Photograph of Jim Carse in his Yukon Boat on the Yukon River. Narrative in photograph album reads: "Two views of Jim Carse in his Yukon boat. He was a wood chopper and owned a set of Shakespeare's works"
"Frank A. Metcalf, former territorial engineer receives a commemorative statehood medallion by Egan as Commissioner of Public Works, Richard Downing looks on."
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from caption on Album. A close- up shot of George C. Thomas Memorial Library which was Fairbanks' only public library for 68 years. Named for a man who had never been to Fairbanks, Thomas was a Philadelphia banker who once saw a...
Title from verso. "Bern Keating, National Geographical writer Myrt Peterson, Wien Consolidated Stewardess Fairbanks. Nov. 1968. Wien Consolidated Photo. 37% Kay J. Kennedy, P. O. Box 80805 Fairbanks, AK 99708." Among other works, Bern...
Title from caption in album. A steam engine or donkey engine, covered with canvas or other fabric, powers a pile driver in place on a bridge as construction advances across the river. A man on a tractor works at the river's edge.
Title from album caption. The sign on the building at right reads 'Ketchikan Iron Works Dock 31'. On another building: '[Ketchikan Machine Wks] Covered Marine Railway Capacity [500 Tons]'.
Title taken from caption. A man works with what appears to be surveying equipment in the foreground, the background includes several buildings in Godhavn. The Inspector's name, according to “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of...
McGee family building log home at Moose River, Alaska on Kenai Peninsula. Man works near structure, while woman and young girl stand at left. Photographer: Robert Mounteer. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
The caption on the verso of the photograph reads "This is the only girl in the show. She works at the office." The photograph was most likely taken at Elmendorf Air Force base in Anchorage, Alaska. There is a man in a plaid shirt and hat...
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...
Title taken from caption. A barricade put up by the Anchorage Public Works department after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. The sign reads: "Danger area. Enter at your own risk."
View of a road closed somewhere in Southcentral Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Area is tentatively identified as the Seward Highway, south of Anchorage, Alaska. Road sign on left middle reads Road Closed Stop Danger Alaska Dept of...
View of a car and a man next to a sign(reading Road Closed Stop Danger Alaska Dept of Public Works) somewhere in Southcentral Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Area tentatively identified as the Seward Highway south of Anchorage, Alaska....
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.