Title from caption. Photograph of Belle Stevens with her catch of rabbits on her back, her .22 in her hand, and her snowshoes standing upright next to her. Narrative in photo album reads: "Belle Stevens with her morning's catch of rabbits on...
Title taken from caption."Alaska Nellie" Lawing posing in front of her cabin. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "Near the dock where we landed there is a home owned by one Nellie. I found out that Nellie is a well-known Alaskan character. Stolfe...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy and her dog, Ruslan, in the garden of her homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in 1956. Roxy stands in front of rows of vegetable plants with Ruslan sitting on the...
Rofkar, Teri (artist). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. Teri Rofkar is a Tlingit master weaver from Sitka in Southeast Alaska and of the Raven Clan and Snail House. She learned weaving and basketry from classes in college and at museums, and was...
Title from caption. Photograph of Elsie Adam with her sister tied to her back, using what appears to be a blanket. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Elsie Adam with her sister on her back."
04 First jobs in Alaska (5:04 min.) (04 of 09) Lockheed Vega took her to Fairbanks. Bush flying was what she wanted, but she couldn't get hired in Fairbanks. Herb Hagler at Fairbanks Air Service wouldn't give her a job as a pilot, but he told...
Title taken from verso. Eskimo woman and child fishing for spider crab, near Nome, Alaska. From verso of original photo: "A close view of an Eskimo woman fishing for spider crabs. Her boots - the wrinkles [on the edges of her boots] are bit with...
Physical description: 13 pages, handwritten on yellow legal-sized sheets. Places mentioned: Auk Bay (Alaska) ; Auk Village (Alaska) ; Berners Bay (Alaska) ; Cape St. Elias (Alaska) ; Douglas (Alaska) ; Douglas Island (Alaska) ; Fairheaven...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Cora Rivenburg standing in her home. Prints and photographs are on the walls behind her and a hat is on the table to her right.
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza with a log cabin in the background. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first morning, before...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Old Eliza walking in Stevens Village with a log building in the background. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first...
Title from caption. Old Eliza at her fish camp with a tent behind her and a stove in front of her. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is Old Eliza in her summer fishing camp near the Yukon. This sheet iron stove is very extensively...
Title from caption. Photograph of a dog named Calamity Jane. Narrative in photo album reads: "In the lower corner is Mr. Shultz' pet and companion, 'Calamity Jane.' She was a husky and he raised her on a bottle. She fussed so much that he...
Title from caption. Photograph of Eva and her owl. Narrative in photo album reads: "Eva and her young owl. It was caught young and is about half-grown in the picture. Notice Eva's beaded moose-skin gloves. She is wearing them here to...
Title from indexer. Additional narrative in donor notes reads: "Our sled dog Iolanthe, bred by Milton Swan in Kivalina, lost much of her left hind leg when, with her stake-out chain accidentally wrapped around it during one winter night, her...
Title from cataloger. Cataloguer's note: A portrait of a young Alaska Native woman with a remarkably composed bearing; her plaited hair is long; she has facial tattoos beneath her mouth and extending the length of her chin. She is carrying a...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy sitting on a blanket in the grass with her dog, Ruslan, at her homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in 1956. Visible behind her are a tractor, cart, and house. The...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy in 1978 in the sawmill that she and her husband built at their homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. She is wearing a face mask and holding a pair of gloves. There...