1 — | Seward Div. Gov’t Railroad, Oct. 20, 1918, View of Glacier from Mile 46. AEC G1094, H.G. Kaiser | |
2 — | ‘Mile 49’ Gov. R.R. Seward, Alaska [The Loop] | |
3 — | Beaver Lake. Mile 36, Alaska R[ail]road. AEC G1097, H.G.K. | |
4 — | Flats at mouth of Susitna River. AEC G82 P.S. Hunt | |
5 — | Ice run at mouth of Indian & Susitna Rivers May 12/1919. AEC G1378 | |
6 — | Ice run, Susitna River, May 12/1919. AEC 1377 [2 copies] | |
7 — | North Channel, Susitna Crossing, May 16/1919. AEC G1371 | |
8 — | Tide flats at mouth of Susitna River near Anchorage, Alaska. AEC G634 P.S. Hunt | |
9 — | Sutton Station, Mile 19A, Oct. 17, 1921. AEC G1927, H.G.K. | |
10 — | Looking down Susitna River to Camp 245 “Curry.” AEC G680 P.S. Hunt | |
11 — | Tugs and lighters leaving for Seldovia and Seward for the winter. AEC G253 P.S. Hunt | |
12 — | [Panoramic photograph] Mt. McKinley 20,460 ft. Sheelor Photo copyrighted 1916 | |
13 — | [Panoramic photograph] Latouche Oct. 1918 (Photo by Jenner) | |
14 — | Wood Funeral Parlor, Anchorage, Alaska [wood building with sign “Undertaking”] | |
15 — | [Photographic postcard] Another view of the original Wood “brown store front” in Anchorage, Alaska [walled tent with shovel propped against it; 2 copies] | |
16 — | [Photographic postcard. Similar to .15, two copies] | |
17 — | [Photographic postcard] Anchorage post office. McCain | |
18 — | [Photographic postcard] The post office, Anchorage, May 1916. The S.L. Co. | |
19 — | [Photographic postcard] Anchorage post office | |
20 — | [Photographic postcard. Mail bags piled at Anchorage post office, circa 1915-1916] | |
21 — | [Photographic postcard. Dog team outside Anchorage post office and telephone and telegraph building, circa 1916] | |
22a — | [Photographic postcard. Dog team coming up Fourth Avenue in Anchorage past post office building, circa 1915. No telephone & telegraph building] | |
22b — | First post office – Anchorage, Alaska corner 4 th and F Street [7.5” x 9.5” print] B1/F2 | |
23 — | [Photographic postcard] Gov. bldgs. 4 th Ave. Anchorage [automobile parked outside post office and telephone & telegraph buildings, circa 1916; possibly Joe Spenard’s REO truck] | |
24 — | [Photographic postcard] U.S. jail, Anchorage, July 19[?] [circa 1915, log building with flagpole, Pioneer Lodging House in rear; probably Sydney Laurence Co. photograph] | |
25 — | [Photographic postcard] Government hospital, Anchorage. Laurence | |
26 — | Anchorage terminal yard – office building & soldiers quarters, May 9, 1920. AEC H 125 H.G. Kaiser [on back:] 1922? This shows the grouping of some of the main buildings – our office is on the side looking toward the barracks. The row of houses on the hill is “Government Hill” where the Commission originally started to erect its cottages. This is only a small part of the Comm. bldgs. | |
27 — | [Photographic postcard] Old Anc. grade-&-h.s. present site of City Hall annex. Second school on this site | |
28 — | [Photographic postcard. Dog team parked on Third Avenue between F and G Streets in Anchorage] | |
29 — | [Photographic postcard] Main street, Anchorage, July 4 th 1915 Laurence [flags and banners hang over street; walled tents with signs for Larson & Wendler, Photographer, Newt W. Pilger] | |
30 — | [Photographic postcard] Anchorage, Ala. C.F. Peterson Photo [dog team passing Baxter’s News Depot, possibly sled dog racing] | |
31 — | [Photographic postcard. Postcard originally with six images; this copy damaged and showing five images: Loading gravel in Oliver dump cars; Dinkey locomotive; Empress Building, 4 th Ave.; Frisco Café and California Pool Room and Cigar Store, northeast corner 4 th and H streets; Brown & Hawkins store, NE 4 th and E streets] | |
32 — | [Photographic postcard] First Dog Race, Anchorage Kennel Club, Old Knik and return. January 20, 1916. McCain Studio [Signboard with mushers and times] | |
33 — | The funeral of William Elliot (“Billie the Horse”) Anchorage Jan. 26 th 1916. Laurence [on back:] Funeral of one of Alaska’s “old timers” using dog team and sled as conveyance to the cemetery. “Billie the Horse” (Wm. Elliott) was one of the best known men in Alaska at one time a millionaire and mine owner but in later years went broke and was buried by his friends. Funeral in charge of Undertake Wood (x), Anchorage, Alaska. [Alaska Free Press index lists death date of William “Billy the Horse” Elliott as 1889] | |
34 — | The passing of George Pekos [Jekos], Anchorage, Alaska, June 24 th 1916. The Sydney Laurence Co. [on back:] Greek funeral, Anchorage, Alaska, “x” – the undertaker, F.B. Wood | |
35 — | [Funeral procession with automobiles, marching band, and two flag bearers, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, past Baxter’s News Depot, Brown & Hawkins, Montana Pool Room, B.C. Nichols, and Reilly’s Cafe] | |
36 — | R.R. Y.M.C.A. committees, Anchorage, Alaska Nov. 1916. AEC G219 P.S. Hunt | |
37 — | [Photographic postcard] Last steamer on Alaska Railroad – Palmer bound to first Alaska State Fair. Alaska Railroad B&W 4 [1936?] | |
38 — | A.E.C. coal mines Chickaloon Oct. 11, 1918. AEC G1030-1031 | |
39 — | Eska Creek, Alaska. H.G. Kaiser [on back:] On Alaska Railroad | |
40 — | Miners dormitory, Eska, July 23, 1921. AEC G 1863 H.G. Kaiser [on back:] On Alaska Railroad | |
41 — | Eska coal mines, Alaska, H.G. Kaiser [on back:] On Alaska Railroad. The Commission ceased operations at the Eska mine early in April 1922 in order to give private enterprise a better chance B1/F3 | |
42 — | [Photographic postcard] U.S.A.T. Liberty and S.S. Baranof, Seward, Alaska [postmarked Jun 12 1941, addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Burpee Wood, Sausalito Calif] | |
43 — | [Photographic postcard] A distant scene from our back door. Resurrection Bay, Seward | |
44 — | [Photographic postcard. Morgue, Seward, Alaska. Sign on building next to it reads: “Rob Small, Blacksmith and horse shoes”] | |
45 — | [Photographic postcard. Resurrection Bay? Stamp on back of Coleman Hotel, Geo. Sexton Prop., Seward, Alaska] | |
46 — | [Photographic postcard] Start of Marathon race, Seward, Alaska, July 4 th ‘19 | |
47 — | [Photographic postcard] Across the street from our house. The school house is the lower building | |
48 — | [Photographic postcard] Davidsons Glacier near Skagway, Alaska. 79-D Maude Dempsey 2313 N. 39 St Seattle U.S.A. | |
49 — | [Photographic postcard] Cape St. Elias, Alaska. Sexton | |
50 — | [Color postcard] An October night, Ketchikan, Alaska 5529 [postmarked June 7 1930 and addressed to F.B. Wood, San Francisco] | |
51 — | [Color postcard] Valdez, Alaska, showing Valdez Glacier. 5618 c. 1913 P.S. Hunt | |
52 — | [Color postcard] Orr stage leaving Valdez, Alaska, for Fairbanks | |
53 — | [Photographic postcard] Valdez, Alaska. V48 [mark of J.E. Thwaites] | |
54 — | “Moonlight in the far north,” La Touche Island, Alaska, Nov. 15, 1918 [on back:] This is the only picture I can obtain at this time. Will endeavor to get one showing the large mills & mine workings. This picture does not show the mills and mine bldgs. which are off to the right. Power plant. Gen. office bldg. where I work | |
55 — | [Color postcard] St. Sergis cemetery [sic], Alaska | |
56 — | [Photographic postcard] Nushagak, Alaska. 975 [mark of J.E. Thwaites] | |
57 — | [Photographic postcard] Russian church cemetery [sic], Bristol Bay Bering Sea [mark of J.E. Thwaites] | |
58 — | [Photographic postcard] Alaska, “So boss so,” Teller [Sami woman milking reindeer, with man holding reindeer and herd in background. photo removed from scrapbook] | |
59 — | [Photographic postcard] Yacht Cypress, Bella Bella, B.C. Thwaites 3115 | |
60 — | [Photographic postcard] Rescuing crew of S.S. Edith. Thwaites | |
61 — | [Photographic postcard] Our party taken the day of the picnic [southeast Alaska?; 2 copies] | |
62 — | Left to right: 1. Capt. L.B. Horton. 2. [blank] 3. Adolph W. Young, brakeman ARR. 4. [blank] 5. George L. Jenkins, conductor ARR. 6. [blank] | |
63 — | [Photographic postcard] Pie eating contest, 4 th [of July. Seward?] | |
64 — | Alaska shore [face of unidentified glacier] | |
65 — | [Photographic postcard. Possibly dog sled racing; dog team walking past line of spectators] | |
66 — | [Photographic postcard. Unidentified glacier] | |
67 — | [Photographic postcard. Homestead with farm and log buildings. Matanuska?] | |
68 — | [Photographic postcard] First white child to be born in Alaska [small child with hat stands near river; Martha “Babe” White?] | |
69 — | Seasons Greetings [on back:] A souvenir of the days that have passed. Christmas 1933 [reproduction of a painting of a cache, possibly by Sydney Laurence] B1/F4 | |
70 — | [Panoramic photograph] Above the dam [unidentified location] | |
71 — | [Panoramic photograph] A street scene, Waterville, Wash. No. 49 Alfred S. Witter Photo [on back:] 1908 view of the largest town in the district | |
72 — | [Panoramic photograph, colored. Scenic view of forest, mountains, and lake] | |
73 — | [Panoramic photograph, colored] A41335 [Tipis on plains, with some fir trees; wooden buildings in distance. Washington State?] B1/F5 [Remaining images are mounted in a 5 3/4” x 7 3/4” photo album; all non-Alaskan, possibly Montana, circa 1911?] | |
74 — | [Theodore Roosevelt, tipping his hat to the crowd] | |
75 — | [View down unpaved street lined with businesses, pedestrians on sidewalks; large banner over street and low mountains in distance] | |
76 — | [three-story stone building with central steeple of five stories; university?] | |
77 — | [woman feeding pony from small bowl] | |
78 — | [Native American man seated on box in courtyard, wearing brimmed hat, striped blanket, and decorative bag] | |
79 — | [man from .78 with woman in striped blanket and headscarf, head slightly elongated, holding what is possibly a cradle board] | |
80 — | [same couple as in .79, seated in courtyard with wooden fence and buildings behind] | |
81 — | [locomotive of the Oregon Short Line] | |
82 — | [small campsite along river or pass, dusting of snow on ground] | |
83 — | [three men at small campsite in dry riverbed] | |
84 — | [same woman as in .79-.80, sitting on blanket in courtyard, holding what is possibly a cradle board] | |
85 — | [train wreck, houses of town in distance, bystanders standing around wreckage] | |
86 — | [train wreck, passenger cars off to side of twisted rails, bystanders watching] | |
87 — | [large building, possibly mine, surrounded by plains with low brush] | |
88 — | [large crowds sit outside at long tables eating, and man wearing sash and hat stands in foreground; sign on brick wall to left reads “Dash’s for wallpaper paints oil & glass”; people stand on low roof at back, with writing along eaves “Cut flowers pot plants in season at Dash” – all “S” printed backwards] Manuscript materials B1/F6 [In an envelope labeled “Seward, Alaska Bay View details, F.B. Wood, and sample deeds, contracts, location notices, etc.”] - Land title. Edmund and Julia Rudolph to Town of Seward. February 1915. Unsigned. 3 pages - Contract. Agreement to sell real estate. Edmund Rudolph and Romig & Romig. February 1915. Unsigned. 3 pages - Contract. Selling agreement. Romig & Romig and F.B. Wood. February 15, 1915. Unsigned. 1 page - Correspondence. Typescript letter signed. J. Lindley Green to J.H. Romig, Seward, Alaska, February 15, 1915. 1 page - Contract. Agreement. Romig & Romig and F.B. Wood. February 15, 1915. 1 page. With: Amendment to agreement. February 19, 1915. 1 page - Land title. Edmund and Julia Rudolph to Town of Seward. March 2, 1915. Unsigned. 3 pages - Land claim. F.B. Wood, Seward, Alaska, April 18, 1915. Duplicate. 1 page - Land claim. F.B. Wood, Seward, Alaska, April 18, 1915. Unsigned. Triplicate. 1 page - Land title. Special warranty deed. J.H. Romig to C.C. Georgensen. April 24, 1915. Unsigned. 1 page - Contract. Real estate contract, Bay View Addition. Edmund and Julia Rudolph and F.B. Wood. April 30, 1915. 1 page - Land title. Quit-claim deed. F.B. Wood to Wm. H. Whittlesey. June 17, 1915. Unsigned. 1 page - Map. Manuscript map of Seward, Alaska, showing land survey units and land owners, city limits, railroad tracks, and water depths in Resurrection Bay. 1 page - Blank. Form to list real estate for sale with Romig & Romig. 1 sheet - Advertisement. Bay View Addition, Seward, Alaska. 1 sheet - Contract. Willapacific real estate contract. Modified in manuscript to serve as draft contract. No date. 1 page - Contract. Real estate contract, Bay View Addition. Draft signed by Edmund Rudolph. No date. 1 page - Contract. Real estate contract, Bay View Addition. Sample agreement signed by J. Lindley Green. No date. 1 page [In an envelope labeled “Alaska Real Estate and Lots Seven and Eighteen – Block Three Bay View, Seward, Alaska, complete records paid in full, Feb 5th 1919”] - Land title. Edmund and Julia Rudolph to F.B. Wood. March 26, 1915. 1 page - Land title. J.H. and Ella E. Romig to F.B. Wood. April 2, 1915. 1 page - Land title. F.B. Wood to J.H. Romig. May 22, 1915. 1 page - Receipt. Property tax payments, F.B. Wood to Town of Seward. 1915-1918. 4 pages - Correspondence. Typed letter signed. F.B. Wood to Elizabeth Alice McLeod, Juneau, Alaska, February 5, 1919. 1 page. With envelope stamped “Return to writer unclaimed.” - Correspondence. Copy of F.B. Wood to Elizabeth Alice McLeod, Juneau, Alaska, February 5, 1919. 1 page. With: U.S.P.S. return receipt, February 7, 1919; copy of letter F.B. Wood to Elizabeth Alice McLeod, Juneau, Alaska, April 2, 1917; and land title, F.B. Wood to Elizabeth Alice McLeod, May 1, 1915 - Deed. Bill of sale, Hugh Dougherty to F.B. Wood, June 21, 1920. 1 page - Typescript. Statement. List with purchasers, amounts of sales, commissions paid, and commissions due. No date. 3 pages [Loose materials] - Plat. Laubner Addition to Seward, Alaska. Alaska Realty Co. No date. [1913?] - Plat. Map of Bay View Addition, Seward, Alaska. Filed February 13, 1915. - Plat. Map of Seward, Alaska 1915. H. Tozier [photographic print] - Clipping. “Lots sold by the hundreds. Bay View lots go like fire.” The Seward Gateway, Tuesday March 30, 1915. - Clipping. “Bayview Addition sold.” The Seward Gateway, Monday May 3, 1915. - Clipping. “$40,000,000 Seward the forty million dollar city of the great northern empire.” The Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Sunday May 23, 1915. - Clipping. “Remember Bay View lots are 45 feet wide and 100 feet long.” No date. - Clipping. “Bay View lots 45 feet wide, 100 feet long.” No date. B1/F7 - Land title. Application to purchase town lot. Fred B. Wood, Matanuska, Lot 9 Block 5. July 28, 1916. 1 page. With: Receipt for initial deposit, September 18, 1916; receipt, July 26, 1916; receipt, July 28, 1916. - Land title. Application to purchase town lot. Fred B. Wood, Matanuska, Lot 13 Block 4. July 28, 1916. 1 page. With: Receipt for initial deposit, September 18, 1916; receipt, July 26, 1916; receipt, July 28, 1916; land title, F.B. Wood to Sue W. Williams, March 15, 1917; typescript letter signed Frank A. Boyle, Receiver, to Fred B. Wood, Anchorage, November 20, 1917; typescript letter signed Frank A. Boyle to Fred B. Wood, Anchorage, August 27, 1918. B1/F8 - Lease. F.B. Wood from U.S. Forest Service, five acres in Chugach Forest Reserve. Undated. 1 sheet of treated canvas - Plat. Lincoln Heights, Great Falls, Montana. Malloy Investment Co. No date. - Contract. William G. Malloy, for sale of real estate. 1913. Unsigned. 2 pages - Circular. Announcement. Malloy Investment Company. March 20, 1913. 1 page - Invoice. Oregon Casket Company to F.B. Wood. March 4, 1919. 1 page. With two manuscript supply lists. - Certificate. Registration certificate, Fred B. Wood, Latouche, Alaska to Local Board No. 14, Valdez, Alaska. October 15, 1918. With envelope, Kennecott Copper Corporation letterhead. - Clipping. “Some like it hot.” Anne Lippincott. The Forty-Ninth Star, Sunday December 15, 1946. Publications B1/F9 - Program. Fourth of July celebration, Anchorage, Alaska, 1917. - Offprint. “Rules and regulations relating to the practice of embalming and registration of vital statistics in the Territory of Alaska.” Territorial Registrar of Vital Statistics. August 28, 1915. - Offprint. “An act to require the registration of vital statistics in the Territory of Alaska and for other purposes.” April 25, 1913. - Offprint. “Executive order. Alaskan Railroad townsite regulations.” June 19, 1915. B1/F10 - Brochure. See Alaska via the Alaska Railroad. Department of the Interior, The Alaska Railroad Mt. McKinley Route. [1930] 18 pages - Brochure. Alaska sea voyage vacations. Northland Transportation Company. Season 1948. 1 sheet - Brochure. Alaska. British Columbia Coast Service, Canadian Pacific Railway. No date. 12 pages - Brochure. Alaska, tour of enchantment. M.S. Posada Manana. No date. 1 sheet - Map. Alaska pocket map. Rand McNally and Company. No date. [1940s] B1/F11 - Greeting card. Grace Line Fleet. New Year 1933. - Extract. Alaska sportsman. February [1956?] B1/F12 [Items removed from ledger in B2] - Correspondence. Typescript letter signed Henning Plaun, Danish Consul, to F.B. Wood, San Francisco, Cal. June 7, 1922, re Valdemar Viggo Werner. 1 page. With copy of typescript letter, F.B. Wood to Henning Plaun, Seattle, Washington, May 31, 1922; typescript letter signed Henning Plaun to Wood Undertaking Co., April 18, 1922; two postmaster receipts; burial permit issued to F.B. Wood for deceased Walter Werner; manuscript note, P.B. Gill to Wood Undertaking Co., April 9, 1919; copy of typescript letter signed, Wood Undertaking Company to Deep Sea Fishermans Union of the Pacific, March 26, 1919 - Certificate. Death certificate, Leona Marie Bradshaw, May 3, 1915, Seward. B2 - Ledger. [Wood Undertaking Company funeral records for Anchorage, Alaska, 1915-1920] “Robert Hayner Acct.” at front E. G. Chisholm, March 3, 1915 John B. Parks, July 18, 1915 Albert Pierce, August 4, 1915 Albert Brown, August 23, 1915 John A. Mathison, September 8, 1915 George Krizan, September 18, 1915 John Johnson, October 11, 1915 W. H. Peterson, November 11, 1915 Elsie C. Hanson, November 19, 1915 Robert W. Dunlap, November 24, 1915 Frank Robinson, December 22, 1915 Ernest Royden Ramsey, January 3, 1916 William Elliott “Billie the Horse”, January 23, 1916 Swan Larson, February 2, 1916 Albert Baker, March 31, 1916 James English, May 18, 1916 Montgomery D. Crocker, May 19, 1916 John Erickson, June 3, 1916 John Brockman Seiffert, June 11, 1916 George Jekos, June 22, 1916 Katrina Ephim, Native, July 3, 1916 John W. Clem, July 5, 1916 Alexander Tuckaeff, July 8, 1916 Peter Sinnott, July 17, 1916 John Carlson, July 28, 1916 Joe, Native, August 1, 1916 Joe Rarichvoich, August 14, 1916 John Linderboom, August 21, 1916 Paul Brachna, September 9, 1916 Theofield Eeraerts, September 10, 1916 Cora Vought Wilkinson, September 15, 1916 Clara Viola Foreman, September 18, 1916 Nick Sacoff, September 27, 1916 Unknown, September 29, 1916 Julia Matte Dwyer, October 1, 1916 Nick Glumac, October 31, 1916 John Nestor, October 31, 1916 Torkel Aamodt, November 7, 1916 Princess Nicoli, Native, November 15, 1916 Andrew Grossley, November 21, 1916 Nelson, December 1, 1916 Caall Freeman, December 5, 1916 Frank Mathison, December 28, 1916 Horace C. Emery, January 15, 1917 Burt G. Stewart, January 15, 1917 Mrs. Marguerite Kirby, February 1, 1917 Sam Myran, February 6, 1917 Sam J. Milovich, March 1, 1917 Victor Weatherhead, March 10, 1917 Allen, March 14, 1917 C. L. Kimmell, March 28, 1917 Simon Johanson, April 4, 1917 Willard B. Hastings, April 22, 1917 Frank A. Parker, April 27, 1917 Joe Sartori (Giuseppe Sartor), May 1, 1917 Robt. Dunlap [disinterment of Robert W. Dunlap, buried November 24, 1916] Suthar A. Campbell, May 9, 1917 Aug. G. Smith, May 12, 1917 A. Peterson, May 21, 1917 Gust. Tampakis, May 27, 1917 George Teko, May 30, 1917 S. M. Dowell, June 15, 1917 Infant son Ray C. Larson, June 17, 1917 Jim Osman (Osman A. Surhaoff, June 21, 1917 Stillbirth (M. J. Conroy, father), June 29, 1917 Richard W. Feltham, July 3, 1917 Ethel A. Gerber, July 4, 1917 Joe Foucher, July 10, 1917 Ernest Jesse Warner, July 27, 1917 William Stone Leach, July 27, 1917 Nels Jensen, July 29, 1917 P. Burzio, August 9, 1917 Alfred C. Morse, August 9, 1917 Chas. S. Anderson, September 22, 1917 John Snook, disinterment, November 2, 1917 [in different hand] Russian, October 1918 Walter Werner, March 22, 1919 Alma Drayton, May 30, 1919 George Thomas Brown, August 10, 1919 Daniel Andrew Sullivan, August 23, 1919 Isaac Evans, September 3, 1919 Lum C. Straughan, January 1, 1920 Gus Bolstad, April 28, 1920 William Elexander MacPherson, May 10, 1920 Guide updated: August 11, 2016 |