Title taken from donor's caption. A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying. "The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The first steamboat goes up the Copper and Chitina Rivers to carry supplies for the Kennecott Mine and to build a railway. The next day we floated lazily down the Chitina River, a much bigger and somewhat...
Title taken from donor's caption. "We built a boat here to run the river to the coast. Left to right, Tony Diamond, now (1950) U. S. Federal Judge in Anchorage, Alaska, George Potter, 'Bill' and Julia Potter."
Drawing of Urey Lisiansky (Lisianskii) for the frontispiece of the book "A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva"
Title taken from verso. Arthur Eide with an elderly native woman, Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "Pt. Barrow, Alaska 1921." From verso of original photograph: "The author and his lady friend at Pt. Barrow, Alaska. She was 108 years old - died at...
Title taken from label on matting. View of memorial for Gintin in front of building in Saxman, Alaska. Monument reads: "Gintin. Died Aug. 17, 1894, aged 70 years." Photographer's number 8392. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph...
Title taken from front. View of Seward, Alaska and Resurrection Bay from mountain behind town. From verso: "Seward is a town of about three years growth. It is the coast terminus of the Alaska Central R[ailwa]y. The Lowell family were the original...
Formal portrait of William "Willie" "Iggiagruk" Hensley, who served as both a State Representative in Alaska for 4 years, as House majority leader, and as a State senator, for 4 years from 1971-75 and again for a term starting in 1987,...
Photograph of a photo case, which holds a photograph of Wickersham and a placard reading, "1880, James Wickersham, 23 years old; passed Illinois Bar; married Deborah Bell"
Notes on Kankei Ibun (Voyages around the world)
Made with the assistance of Naoko Hoshino.
Vol. 0
Introduction
Table of contents with summary of each volume
List of illustrations
Vol. 1
Vessel Wakamiya-maru leaving Ishimaki, winter of...
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....
A community of shacks built from whatever materials were available, which sprang up near Peger Road in Fairbanks during boom years associated with the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline