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. View of August E. Miller sitting on the beach next to two kayaks at Lake Grosvenor, Alaska. Caption also says: "Miller and the two Kayaks on the low gravel beach on the upper end of Lake Grosvenor." Photo taken at what was...
53 second, black & white/silent, film clip of men in kayaks demonstrating an "Eskimo roll". The kayaks appear to be skin boats and the men are wearing gut parkas.
Title taken from image. Photograph of three Native Alaskans with a catch of king salmon at Nushagak, Alaska. A pair of skin kayaks are elevated behind the fish. Also visible in the photograph are barrels, cut logs, and a portion of Nushagak...
Ttile taken from caption; engraving faces page 699. "Canoes of Oonalashka." The engraving shows two kayaks. The top picture shows a kayak with two paddlers, each with a single-bladed paddle. The men are wearing water-proof gear and...
Four native men in two skin boats, probably Aleut men (Unangan), paddle up to another ship (note rigging in upper right corner. Both kayaks are of the three seat versions and both have a harpoon attached to the right front of the bidarka.
Title taken from caption. View of a portion of the settlement at Umanak, Greenland. Kayaks and paddles are in the foreground, people in the background pose in front of buildings.
Title taken from caption. View of summer cottage above bluff at Naknek, Alaska, with kayaks elevated on poles and stored near bottom of bluff in foreground. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
Title taken from verso. View of a number of kayaks, some manned, some unmanned, alongside the ship, North Star, near Hooper Bay, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Two King Island, Alaska kayakers raft alongside a boat as they unload cargo, with a man sitting across the bows of the kayaks. Another man in a fur parka stands on a small platform looking down at the kayakers and a movie camera is partially...
Title taken from front. View looking down from above at men in skin kayaks, or bidarkas, Cold Bay, Alaska. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number G1317. n.d. Photographer: P.S. Hunt.