"After sorting, the grass blades are gathered in neat bundles and hung out to cure. Whenever a rain shower came along all the curing grass bundles throughout the village were whisked out of sight as if by magic." (Olaus J. Murie, Circa 1937)
Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
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...
Title taken from caption. "12733 -- Onward and upward over the Chilcoot Pass". Image shows a group of prospectors, surrounded by bundles of supplies. In the background there is a steady stream of humanity making its way up the steep...
Title from caption. This bank protection appears to consist of tree poles lined up on the bank and weighted down with rock bundles. The bridge, a tower used in pile driving, and a tripod are in view.
Title from verso. "Bellanca Pace maker. 330 hp. Wright whirl wind engine circa 1934 probably Iliamna Country. Star Airlines photo from Dorothy Loftus. Kay Kennedy Mail: 12831 N. E. 83rd St. Kirkland, Wa. 98033." The tail of this float plane is...
Title from verso. "Wilkins, Eielson (behind engine). Orange and black plane Stinson Detroiter for Arctic Expedition. Eielson head out of sight. 1927 not successful trip. Sold to Wien. Kay J. Kennedy aviation collection." At their feet lie...
Title taken from caption. View of schooner "Thayer" in Bering Sea, with men on deck. Early each April from 1912 to 1924, C.A. Thayer hauled 28-foot gill-net boats, bundles of barrel staves, and tons of salt from San Francisco to Western Alaska....
Title supplied by cataloger. Man operates outboard motor. Two bundles of fishing net sit next to woman on boat. Slide printed 8/1968. Slide carousel unlabeled. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Roe being wrapped into white bundles. Large piles of roe in background. Slide printed 6/1964. Slide carousel labeled, 'Homesteading #2.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Coast Guard operated LST, discharges equipment onto beach through open bow doors; the beach is strewn with bundles [barracks bags?] and boxes of gear or supplies; a bulldozer operates along shore Photographer's number 5603
Title from sign on building Note on verso: "First Alaska steam laundry" A dozen people, including six women in white aprons, pose outside the two-story building; in center foreground is a cart loaded with bundles of laundry
Men enjoying steam bath - note bundles of shavings in mouth to serve as respirators. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 464.