Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundary between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in Bering Strait.
Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
View of men dismembering a blue whale at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Akutan whaling station." Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.75".
A movie camera on a tripod is set up on the ice in the foreground, while a whaling crew looks into the water at a whale carcass prior to hauling it out and butchering it. A small wooden whaling boat is visible in the water. Photograph taken during...
Photograph shows men wearing kuspuks with fur around the hoods, mukluks, and other winter garb pulling a whale up out of the water and over the snow and ice. There is a low boat on the shore to the right of the...
Title taken from verso. View of blue whale carcass laid out in front of large building at whaling station at Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Cyantoype photograph of Orca, Alaska in the spring of 1898. View of a beach with several men on the dock, and a ship in the background. The building in the foreground appears to be elevated on a platform. The lettering on the building to the right...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title taken from verso. View of whaling station, Port Armstrong, Alaska, with buildings and docks. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." n.d. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4 1/4".
View of men cutting up whale at whaling station, Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Whale. Akutan, Alaska. Whaling station in Aleutian Islands." n.d. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".