Title taken from caption. Beulah Marrs (later Beulah Marrs Parisi) gets help washing and drying dishes from service man John Chrisman in 'Bee Hive' in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Beulah 'Bee' Marrs getting dishwashing help from John...
Title by indexer. Cartoon panel depicts a man trying to get his stuck car out of a muddy road; around him, others watch, and one says to another, "Why don't some of us help him? Help him wot fur? That's the Road Commissioner!" (The 'er' in...
Title from caption. Photograph of the Chilkoot Pass. Narrative in photo album reads: "Chilcoot pass of the gold rush route in '98, a terrible part of the journey."
Title from caption. Photograph of Cora Rivenburg in dress fur clothing. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right-Mrs. Rivenburg in 'dress-up' winter attire. Head gear in an Indian made beaver cap."
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
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 verso. The following is from a caption attached to the back of the photograph: "As a Twenty-eight-year-old graduate student in 'human geography,' Don Charles Foote traveled to Point Hope under an AEC research contract. For...
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
Title taken from caption. Four men (two in uniform) sitting at table during meeting at USO building in Anchorage, Alaska. Two soft drink bottles sit on table. Also from caption: "1942-3. Lloyd Cleaves (at typewriter, ass[istan]t director), Dick...
Title taken from verso. Portrait of Fred Wildon Fickett and his wife Nellie Lord Fickett. Also from verso: "Married Sept. 12, 1886, Carmel, Maine. Originally picture made b[e]t[ween] 1916 & 1920. Same picture as in 'Ariz[ona] Daily Star' July 13,...
View of man with camera and other equipment in KFIA Channel 2 booth at Consumer Carnival in Anchorage, Alaska. Signs read: "KFIA-TV. Channel-2. The best in TV entertainment," "KFIA thanks its many sponsors for making it possible to add this new RCA...
Title supplied by cataloger. Meat cut on bandsaw. Meat would have been kept frozen in 'drop bags' and used during expedition to feed the sled dogs. Folder labeled, 'Iditarod Challenge.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Donor made parka from materials she obtained and processed, with the exception of the domestic calf used to make the geometric designs around hem. Caribou, wolf, wolverine and with wolverine strips front and back. Hood of calf heads. Very well...
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...
Woman's reindeer parka with wolverine fur trim. Made by donor's mother "Akurak" (Mary English). She used pieces of lynx legs for cuffs. It was caught in a trap and was eaten by another animal except for legs (!) Approx. 32" from shoulder to...
Child's diaper made from spotted sealskin fur and edged with caribou fawn skin with ties of spotted seal ties. Inside the diaper is sphagnum moss. Sewn with sinew. Measures 25 x 19.5 x 9 cm.