Four women dancing on blanket made of bearded sealskin outside during Nalukataq (spring whaling celebration). Well-dressed women dance with babies on their backs. The metal bucket near drummers is filled with water used to keep drums moist for...
Title taken from information with photograph. View of men playing skin drums in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. Men identified from information with photograph as: "Unknown, Arctic John, Elijah Kakinya, Frank Rulland, Simon Paneak." May 1970. Photographer:...
Group of children dancing to drums in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with drummers seated on floor in background. Drummers include: Arctic John, Elijah Kakinya, Frank Rulland, and Simon Paneak. May 1970. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph...
Title from verso Soldiers of Company B, 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry, unloading 55 gallon drums and rolling them down a prefabricated ramp to HARRIS COUNTY (LST-822) Signal Corps Photo 576652 (1st. Lt. Charles Beresford, photographer)
Caption: "Under the skin canoe there can be seen six drums which are used in our native dance; the man is doing a dance after a successful season of whaling."
Title from verso. Photograph of a load of gasoline drums being lowered into an umiak. Verso reads: "Four of 16. Gasoline for Pribilofs -- A slingload of gasoline-filled drums is lowered into a waiting bidar, a 40-foot canvas covered...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Color photograph of a sternwheeler with the following notes: This riverboat connected Fairbanks with Anchorage. The captain notified the military when they could come to pick up their shipments. This included...
Man sitting next to hole in ground used as sweat bath in Northern Alaska, with drums sitting beside hole. 1920's. Photographer: A.B. Martin. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5 1/8".
Caption: "An Eskimo dance. . .is done by making all kinds of motions with the arms and keeping time with the feet by stamping to the beating of the Eskimo drums. There [are] always five or more drums in the hands of men being struck with a slender...
Title taken from verso. Photograph of Don Foote standing on his house at Point Hope, Alaska. Visible is Don Foote's home with several 55 gal. drums and other equipment out front.
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows an elderly man wearing glasses and a parka with fur ruff, standing near a dirt road and holding a baseball cap. Power lines, buildings, an automobile, oil drums and boating apparatus are visible in...
Title from caption and verso. Verso reads: "$3.50. #30. Galena AFB. 1955." Image shows an African American man in military uniform and hat leaning out the door of a large fuel truck. Letters painted on the truck identify it as "U.S.A....
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Benson. $1.50. Galena, Alaska." Image shows a military flat-bed truck loaded with oil barrels next to a yard full of similar barrels. The oil drums on the ground are shown laying on their sides. Some of...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows some men standing near two Stinson Detroiter airplanes. The snow around the airplanes is littered with boxes, supplies, and fuel drums. The photograph appears to have been torn.
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(3:10 min) (03 of 04) Trying to organize in the wake of the earthquake. supplies -- washed out\ fishing -- nets\ gas drums\ fish trucks\ Akwe River\ Dry Bay\ steam -- sand flats\ Geddes, Bill\ foam -- insects