Title taken from verso. Workmen digging in front of one of three large buildings. Two women and a child are crossing the open area between buildings. Verso: John Beaver Mertie.
Title taken from image. Buildings labeled in image: Boys' home, girls' home, museum, church, library, carpenter & cooper shop, hospital. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
Raising the building up onto skids. Showing Eskimos at work; building materials; oil drums. Woman in doorway (Mrs. Spriggs?) and woman and child in right corner of building; man with pipe, left hand corner.
Flagpole is on left end of the building. Summer view. Butter came in barrels like that at corner of building. Locals used them for making misigaaq (seal oil) and mikigaq (fermented whale meat and blubber).
L. to r.: Mrs. Spriggs, Harold Spriggs, Reverend Samuel Spriggs. Spriggs was the Presbyterian minister at Barrow, AK 1900. Image: "Yours sincerely, S.R. Spriggs and family."