Title taken from label on matting. View of cribbage boards carved from walrus ivory displayed at Nome, Alaska. Images on boards include reindeer and sled, people, bears, seals, and walrus. Photographer's number 7916. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B....
Four men identified as, left to, right Ernest Gruening, Charles Bunnell, Henry Jackson and T. Moore, each is wearing graduation robes and mortar boards. several military officers are visible in the background.
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two men whipsawing lumber. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two views showing the Indians whip-sawing limber. By this laborious method they produce planks for flooring, boards for building the large...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two men whipsawing a log into lumber. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two views showing the Indians whip-sawing limber. By this laborious method they produce planks for flooring, boards for building...
Title taken from the back of photograph. "Strapping on boards to carry to the village - 2 cents a load". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title taken from verso. Horse looking out of tent-barn along Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, Alaska. Also from verso: "The trail horse 'barn' ('stable'). The method was to dig snow down to ground before putting up tents for the barn. House tents were...
Photo looks down Front Street in Nome, Alaska during a storm on October 7, 1913. The street is wet, and lumber and boards are strewn about. People are gathered, possibly to assess damage or clean up from the...
A person in a coat and hat walks on what appear to be boards laid across the surface girders of a bridge. Another person can be seen in the distance, between the posts. The base of a pile driver is at...
Title from verso. Image shows a flower path leading to a house that has been constructed of hand-hewn logs and lumber. Wooden boards form a boardwalk between the two rows of flowers on the path. Nasturtiums and other flowers are shown climbing...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rice in a canoe on the Yukon River. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Above are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rice in a canoe which he made, having only a saw, hammer, and plane for tools. He sawed...
60 second, color/silent film clip of residents of Point Hope offloading supplies. The ship is anchored off in the distance as men, women and children carry supplies up the beach. Boards have been set up as a ramp so barrels can be rolled over...
32 second, color/silent, film clip of the christening of the oil tanker ARCO Juneau. The shipyard and various buildings can be seen in the background. A crowd boards the ship on a gangway lined with bunting; a woman breaks the traditional bottle...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "NCCo. [indexer note: Northern Commercial Company] dock at St. Michael, note old river steamer boilers holding it up. Docking consists partially of ASSCo. [ indexer note: Alaska Steamship Company]...
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...