Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 36 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 27 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 30 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...
Cora Tobuk Nictune - left; she had a pair of twins and died during the birth, in Alakaket; Eskimo woman; Susie Levine - right; Indian woman; Beatus (Teddy) Levine - far...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
(7:50 min) (16 of 17) Medical emergencies & tourist industry While teaching at Ft. Yukon woman was having a breech birth. Agreed to take her, got everything ready and when he called to bring her to airplane the baby was born. Wien drove out...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title taken from caption. "Bob Stone - Trapped Upper Kuskokwim River 1920-45. From South Carolina." Note on the back of the photograph reads: "Mr. B. A. Stone Birth Sept 25, 1890 Charlton South Carolina came to Alaska in 1919."
Title by cataloguer. A view of fur seals at the sea. Male Fur Seal is approximately seven feet long and weights about six hundred pounds. The female on average is five feet and weighs about three hundred pounds. A pup weighs ten pounds at...
Title by cataloguer. The Fur Seals live and migrate in groups. Eight months out of the year, they migrated between the Bering Sea and the mid-California coast, but never go on shore.
When they are stationary the Fur Seals live on the...
Title by cataloguer. In the Spring, Fur Seals come to the "rookeries", beaches or Islands where they mate and give birth. The rookeries for the Northern Fur Seal are in the Pribilof and Commanders' Islands. Note: Each seal mates on the exact...
Title by cataloger. Verso reads: "Larry Larson? Fuzz Rogers?"
Identified as Larry Larson by grandson Kent Lyman of Huntsville, Alabama. Larson died in a plane crash shortly before the birth of his daughter Ruth in June, 1940.
Title taken from front. View of the exterior of the Alaska Railroad Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "The Alaska Railroad Hospital. Bonnie's place of birth and where nursing career began". Photographer's number B-3. Original photograph...
Title taken from verso. View of banner designed by Billy Blackjack Johnson hanging at Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. Banner reads: "Birth place of the Alaskan flag." 1996? Photographer: possibly Billy B. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4" x...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. View of Matanuska, Alaska, at mile 150 of Alaska Railroad, with railroad car in background and pedestrians on street. Signs on buildings shown read: "O.O. Krogh" and "Hotel Allen. Restaurant." "O.O. Krogh" refers to Oliver...
Title from sleeve. Neva Egan stands at the microphone during the birthday party of her husband, Governor William Egan. Fannie Barber Soinee, midwife at Egan's birth, with Egan. Photographer's number: 94. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from sleeve. Governor William Egan sits in a banquet room with Fannie Barber, who was the midwife at his birth. Photographer's number: 94. 2 1/4 B&W negative.