Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...
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...
Supplemental material: "Break, break break, on thy cold gray stones, O sea!" East side Whale Island. RWM Looking along E. Shore Whale Is. To Martin Point [Cape Martin] & ragged ridge snow capped mts. Alt. 1800-2000 ft. Taken in July.
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Photograph shows a dead Beluga whale laying on its' side in the water almost on the beach. A motorboat is partly pulled up onto the beach close to the whale.
Title from caption: Eskimo cuting up whale at Point Hop Alaska. Photograph shown a Native Alaskan man and another man siting inside a whale in Point Hope Alaska. There are other men standing behind the whale. Original is 5.5 x 3.5 in.
Title taken from caption. View of two women hanging beluga whale meat out to dry after a successful whale hunt. The photograph was taken on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska. Behind the woman to the left is a man taking a photograph. In the background...
Title taken from caption. View of two women butchering a beluga whale on a beach near Kotzebue, Alaska. A group of spectators are watching the the women as they prepare the meat from a successful whale hunt. Photograph taken July 5, 1952....
Title taken from verso. View of blue whale carcass laid out in front of large building at whaling station at Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of men dismembering a blue whale at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Akutan whaling station." Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.75".
Title taken from caption. A group of young boys watch as hunters pull a beluga whale onto the beach. Several people are in an umiak pulled up onto the beach beside the whale. Original photograph size: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch.
View of bowhead whale bones placed around edges of cemetery at Point Hope, Alaska. 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
View of men butchering beluga whale while spectators gather, Kotzebue, Alaska, with buildings and whalebone mounted on rack in background. 1950's? Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of Beluga whale meat cut in strips drying on racks in summer, Kotzebue, Alaska, with tent in right background. 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from information with photo. View of hunters butchering whale from umiak after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Also from information with photo: "Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, the whale hunt." April...
Title taken from information with photo. View of men removing baleen from whale after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, with dog at right near whale and dog with sled in right background. Also from information with...
Title taken from front. Baleen (bone) from whale on ship, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. From verso: "780 pieces of whale bone. Whale 78 ft. long. Longest slab 9 1/2 ft. Value of bone $12,600. Cape Prince of Wales." Aug. 1902. Original photograph...