Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of a beluga whale tied to a boat after a successful whaling hunt near Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. View of a whale bone resting on a rack and part of an umiak on the beach in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken 07/05/1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from verso. Group of men placing walrus skin boat (umiak) on rack to dry after hunt at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with snowmachine pulling sled and another man at left, and buildings in background. April 1969. Photographer:...
Title taken from verso. Whaling captain Amos Lane, wearing fur parka, stands next to bowhead whale jawbone at Point Hope, Alaska, with group of people and boat in background. Also from verso: "Point Hope whaling captain standing by the jaw bone of...
Title taken from front. View of inflated seal carcasses for use as floats on sled in front of tent at camp in Northern Alaska, with children in background at right. "Seal floats" were used to keep whales afloat after they were shot during hunts....
A. W. Anderson and Lee Wise with boat they used to trap and kill beluga whales, Three-Mile Creek, Cook Inlet area, Alaska. From verso: "A boat was used by Anderson & Wise to trap belugas at Three-Mile Creek in 1919. The belugas would chase the...
Title from verso of postcard View of large, intact whale carcass on ground, belly up, in front of whaling station building; another whale in lower left corner