Descriptive Narrative: 2-pocket wall pocket of seal gut and fabric which is tall and narrow with a conical top and a square bottom. The top panel is of gut with embroidery. Each lower corner has a triangular shaped gut inset with a ribbon welt....
Caption reads: "Interior "Board of Trade" after the big storm. Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men stand inside what looks to be the ruins of a building destroyed by the big storm that occurred in Nome, Alaska on...
The inside of a building is decorated for May Day, 1902 in Nome, Alaska. This is the Golden Gate Hall, and is very similar to photos UAF-1985-122-157 and UAF-1985-122-159, though of different events. A table is...
Title from album caption. Airplane with canvas over motor. Words on the airplane may read "NR 163W" on the tail, "CEC Allen" on the cockpit, and "CLASSNA NADOR" on the plane body. The words "Nippon-America" can be seen under a Japanese flag...
Title from verso. A man with dark hair wearing casual black pants and a striped shirt is standing in front of a ski plane. The aircraft is partially covered with oil-stained canvas or a similar fabric.
Title from accompanying notes. "Hiro, Pepi, Hat, & Bamboo. VWs are great though. Rolled it back up on its wheels, repacked it, and drove off. No damage except loss of the driver's outside rear view mirror." A Volkswagen minibus after an...
Title from caption in album. A steam engine or donkey engine, covered with canvas or other fabric, powers a pile driver in place on a bridge as construction advances across the river. A man on a tractor works at the river's edge.
Round embroidered fabric patch. Design comprises a snarling polar bear head and gold star on blue field. This patch was in use by the Alaska Defense Command beginning in 1943. Object size: 2 1/2 inch diameter circle.
Cyanotype photograph of of a tent with the flaps tied open showing the contents inside. Items inclue a mattress, an armless chair with print fabric, a stove, a bucket, and luggage. There are patches of snow outside the tent, and a pile of chopped...
Cyanotype of an unidentified man sitting behind a store counter surrounded by sundries, possibly in Tyonek, Knik Village, or Ladd's Station. A vice is mounted on the counter to the left, and a sewing machine is visible on the right. There appears...
Embroidered red, white and blue circular fabric patch. Design: a globe balanced on the nose of a seal and the name "Baker Engineers" and the motto "We traverse the earth" on a ribbon around the globe. A surveyor's level sits on top of the globe,...
Title taken from album caption. Group portrait of two women and one man standing in front of a log residence. The adults are wearing fur parkas and the young woman is wearing a fabric kuspuk with a fur collar.
Title taken from album caption. Portrait of one man, four women, and a dog in front of a dwelling. The residence appears to have wood sides and skin or tarp-covered roof. The roof covering is attached to the sides of the building with rope or...
Title supplied by cataloger. There is a white floatplane with a maroon stripe moored in front of a white fabric wall tent with external log supports. Man in a yellow rain coat sitting near the shore. Fishing nets strung out and piled up on ground....
Title supplied by cataloger. White tarp tent with fabric hanging off tent frame. Slide carousel labeled, 'Homesteading #2.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Title drawn from verso One man plays a fiddle, another smokes a pipe, two have their eyes closed; the log cabin walls are visible behind, and a tent fabric stretches above their heads
Title drawn from verso; verso notes shown below photograph One man plays a fiddle, another smokes a pipe, two have their eyes closed; the log cabin walls are visible behind, and a tent fabric stretches above their heads
Title from verso. In 1942, Sascha Brastoff (1918 - 1993, born Samuel Brostofsky) enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was assigned first as a designer and then as a performer to the Air Force show “Winged Victory.” He created and impersonated...