The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition collecting gas samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917....
Title taken from caption. View of several Alaska Natives collecting roots near Attu, including Agefangel (on the left), Chief Mike Hodikof (standing) and his wife, Anastasia (on the right). They are gathered in front of a lean-to tent structure....
Title taken from caption. National Geographic Society expedition member collecting gas sample at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer: J.W. Shipley.
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 44 seconds, MPG-1 format. Driftwood was collected continually throughout the time at camp, starting near the fire and then ranging farther and farther to...
Title by indexer. Photograph of two unidentified girls. One holds a hand lens at an angle that appears to be collecting light. A scale is also on the table.
(4:15 min.) (07 of 25) Ship stories ship; anchor; Neilson, Chris; near disaster; Native hospital; bill collecting; travel; box of money -- 20 dollar bills
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title taken from caption. View from the interior of an ice cave, looking at a member of the National Geographic expedition collecting water from the snow melt. In the background can be seen some of the tents used by the expedition. The pots and...
Title taken from verso. View of house constructed of ice and a seal float. Six people dressed in traditional Native Alaskan clothing stand in front of the house. Also from verso: "Natives 'college kids' dressed as Eskimos. Otto Geist (the...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. Verso: Fifty-five years of the history of Alaska's struggle toward self-government were recalled in Washington this week when Frank A. Waskey, right, called in 1906 as Alaska's first delegate in congress following...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...