Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two men standing next to a beaver pelt stretched out on a board. Caption from finding aid reads "Trappers with stretched beaver". Location is unknown.
Aerial of the "Biehl Trader" with containment boom stretched in the water during boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor.
A group of Inupiaq, mostly children, are sitting in the grass as a walrus skin is stretched and dried. Visible in the background are several buildings and a semi-subterranean sod house (far left on horizon). On the right side of the photo are two...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows two men standing in a stream of running water that is making its way through a gap in tall snow. A log is stretched across the gap. The men appear to be working on something.
Title from cataloger. Photograph is of a tent and hides being smoked as a part of their tanning. Visible in the photo is a woman behind the left side of the smoking hides, a girl in the tent and a couple of sleeping dogs. Narrative in the album...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the Stevens Village school and teachers quarters as seen from the frozen Yukon River. An American flag flies above the school. Narrative in album reads: "A winter view or early spring rather of our...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows hides being stretched near a house. A person is standing next to the house wearing a long kuspuk. Caption from finding aid reads "Hides at Gambell 1958". Location is Gambell, Alaska.
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "A celebratory dinner was held amid the tool displays at Rotman's general store/restaurant/hotel (Bishop Gordon at head of table, Al Reiners's wife Joanne at right). Having a second...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "A celebratory dinner was held amid the tool displays at Rotman's general store/restaurant/hotel (Bishop Gordon at head of table, Al Reiners's wife Joanne at right). Having a second...
Title taken from caption. "11517 -- [18] Sledding over the ice of an Alaskan river on long journeys is an undertaking both tedious and perilous. Storms and biting frosts entail great discomfort as well as threaten life. During pleasant...
Title taken from caption. "11540 -- (34) On the lower Yukon and the eastern shores of Behring Sea, the skin canoe and boat are the only native means of transportation. During the open or summer season, when it is desired to make a speedy...
Title from verso. "Me [Bruce Haldeman] at the hotel. Barrow 1963." A man is standing in front of a hotel. The sign on the entrance wall, apparently made on a skin stretched on a frame, reads: "Top of the World Hotel Barrow". Another sign is...
Title by indexer. This is a poster for Wien Air Alaska. In large letters, it reads: "High Adventure in Alaska's Arctic. Wien Air Alaska." In small letters at the bottom of the photo, "Eskimo blanket toss in the Arctic." Images of a group...
Title taken from caption. View of the deck aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat Alert. The life preserver reads: "U.S. Coast Guard Alert." From May's journal, dated June 28th: "The Alert is about 120 feet long and has five hundred tons...
Title taken from caption. Two men and a dog cross the Chatanika River in Alaska. The man at the front is pulling the craft along a rope stretched across the river. From verso: "Tom [Strobie], George [Moore], and 'Big Boy' cross the Chatanika River...
View of some of the homes built along the cliffs of King Island. The buildings are supported by stilts braced against the steep slopes. A hide is stretched out on a frame in the right hand side foreground of the photograph.
Title taken from verso. Walrus skin to be used for umiak cover is stretched over boards and rests on barrels to dry, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Also from verso: "Split female walrus skin drying for umiak cover." July 1961. Photographer:...
Title taken from front. View of Main Street in Seward, Alaska, with cars on street, flags stretched over street on string, and pedestrians in background. Signs on buildings read: "Alaska House" and "Bank." Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1577." An...