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43 images Created 13 Mar 2021

Vintage Alaska Images.
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  • B013. "Shishaldin Volcano" about 1944.
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  • Y-A370C. Crash boat for naval rescue work. Army P-115 September 20, 1943. As of 1973, the P-115 was a salmon troller named the Shanna.
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  • A222.  Nome Liquor Store. WW2 years.
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  • B29 tail view, Adak, December 4, 1946
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  • Y-A179A. "Congressional Fishing trip to Lake Skilak, August 12, 1946" Photos published in Anchorage Daily Times of Aug 19, 1946 pg. 1, and in Time Magazine September 2, 1946 pg. 7. Caption in Anchorage Daily Times: "Reeling in the first one, Secretary of Interior Julius Krug (extreme right) was pleased with the catch of fish from the waters of Skilak river last Friday which gave good evidence of Alaska's offerings for the fishing enthusiast. Accompanying the cabinet member in a brief respite from an intensive survey tour of the Territory and shown left to right are: the secretary’s father, J. J. Krug of Madison, Wis.; Col. Leslie G Mulzer, commanding officer of Fort Richardson; Lieut. Commander Edward P. Chester, naval aide to Gov. Ernest Gruening; Creekmore Fath, special assistant to Secretary Krug and Mr. Krug."
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  • Y-A171A.  Inuit woman fishing through ice, Nome, Alaska, Spring 1944
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  • Dog sledding in Alaska in the 1940s.
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  • CS00389-01. Watson Lake Signposts. August 1969
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  • 0402-01 Military R5D "Skymaster" turning for takeoff at Kodiak, Alaska. The R5D was a military version of the DC4. ca. 1944-45
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  • 9707-F07. Circle City, Alaska, Bucket Brigade fire department. A man in a buckskin coat stands outside the Circle City fire department building, with a pole in his hand which is used to ring the fire alarm bell. A sign next to him says “Ring Like H--l In Case Of Fire” On the top of the building is a sign “Phoenix” with a fireman’s axe and ladder emblem. On the street in front of the building is the fire wagon, a hand-drawn cart with 21 buckets, each approximately 5 gallon. The cart has 4 small diameter wooden wheels and is designed to move the water-filled buckets to the fire scene. The next door building has advertising affixed “Hote’s National Adv Service From Bangor Me. to Circle City”. Next door is apparently a saloon with the sign “Free Lodging”.
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  • 9707-K254. Inuit structure. Unalaska, June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K250. written on original negative envelope: “Jesse Lee Home” Unalaska, June 22-24, 1917 Alaska. (This orphanage was moved from Unalaska to Seward in 1925. )
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  • 9707-K249. written on original negative envelope: “Bridal party.” Unalaska, June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K248. written on original negative: “fishing trip. South side.” Fishermen on deck of boat. Unalaska. June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K247. Native American cemetery, Unalaska. June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K246. view of Unalaska, June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K244. view of Unalaska, June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K243. fish drying rack, buildings on the shore of Unalaska Harbor. June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K240.  Barabora and cattle in yard. Unalaska June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K239. written on original negative: “Street of Unalaska CLA.” Sign on nearest building “Office. Commanding officer. Bering Sea fleet” The post office is the third building down. June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K234. written on original negative envelope: “Unalaska from the northwest, looking along shore.” June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K211. written on original negative: "Cattle at St. Pauls CLA"  St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K210. written on original negative: “Village at St. Pauls from north CLA” St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K209. written on original negative: “Polyscicatch St. Pauls Id Alaska CLA”, “half bull, Scicatch at Gorbatch.”  St. Paul Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K208. written on original negative: “The holluschickie on St. Pauls Island. CLA”  St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K207. written on original negative: “The holluschickie on St. Pauls CLA”  St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K206. written on original negative: “Half bulls on Gorbatch” St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K205. written on original negative: “Harem on Gorbatch. CLA”  St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K204. written on original negative: “The bachelor seals, Gorbatch Rookery” St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K203. written on original negative: “Harem on Gorbatch Rookery" St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K202. written on original negative: “Harem on Gorbatch Rookery CLA” St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-H02. “Skagway, in the time of Soapy Smith, Sixth Avenue. Soapy Smith’s saloon one of the two low buildings at left” (caption on negative envelope) “Holly Street, Skagway. Showing Soapy Smith Saloon and Frannie Belmont’s house. C. L. Andrews
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  • 9707-K18. Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) is best known as the explorer who discovered the South Pole in 1911. This photograph was taken five years earlier at the end of his first polar exploration, which was when he became the first person to navigate the northwest passage. Amundsen telegraphed the success of his expedition to the world from the army’s northernmost wire station at Fort Egbert near Eagle, Alaska (on the Yukon river at the Canadian border). The photographer, Clarence Andrews, was stationed at Eagle as a customs agent. In Amundsen’s My life as an Explorer (1927), pg. 58, he relates “We arrived at Fort Egbert on December 5, 1905. I remember that the thermometer was sixty degrees below zero. Fort Egbert was the northernmost post of the United States army and at the end of the telegraph line. I was greeted with flattering enthusiasm by the commander at the post, who overpowered me with congratulations and with invitations to make a protracted stay as his guest. I did not feel that I could do this, but I did accept with deep gratitude his offer to send out my telegrams. I wrote out about a thousand words which were at once put on the wire. By an odd freak of circumstance, they had no sooner been sent than the cold somewhere on the line broke the wires, and it was not until a week later that they were repaired and I received confirmation that my telegram had reached the outer world. ... During this week of waiting and the subsequent weeks of recuperation I was the guest of Mr. Frank N. Smith, the resident manager of the Alaska Commercial Company, to whom I shall ever be grateful for his hospitality. I left Fort Egbert in February of 1906.” Amundsen’s boat, the Gjoa, was locked in the ice east of Point Barrow for the winter. In July the boat was freed from the ice and sailed down the Bering Strait to San Francisco. Amundsen gave the boat to the City of San Francisco, and it was installed in Golden Gate Park as a historical souvenir.<br />
In Amundsen’s Nor
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  • 9707-K190. “Paul Buckley and two children on hillside near Unalaska” June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K191. “Greek Church at Unalaska” June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K192. “Unalaska and Greek Church” June 22-24, 1917 Alaska
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  • 9707-K198. written on original negative: “Beating it. CLA” man running from seal. St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K199. written on original negative: “Fur seals and sea lions. St. Paul Is. CLA” St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K200. written on original negative: “St. Paul’s village. Prebilof Is, Alaska. CLA”  St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-K201. written on original negative: “Gorbatch Rookery”  St. Pauls Island. Pribilof Group. July 11, 1919
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  • 9707-G05. “Beach Mining at Nome” (caption published in Andrews’ The Story of Alaska, 4th edition, opposite pg. 201) Nome, Alaska
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  • 9707-G04. “The Only Second Class Saloon in Alaska” (caption published in Andrews’ The Story of Alaska, 4th edition, opposite pg. 202) Nome, Alaska.
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  • 9707-B31. “Half Million in Gold Dust on Str. ‘T. C. Power’ C. L. Andrews, July 1906” shows shipping boxes stenciled “From Washington - Alaska Bank, Fairbanks”
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