Title taken from accompanying note. "[Sign for Utkeagvik Presbyterian Church, established 1898 (Barrow & N.A.R.L., 1973); photo has negative]." Two pieces of what may be whale bone support a sign, itself carved in bone.
Title taken from image. Buildings labeled in image: Boys' home, girls' home, museum, church, library, carpenter & cooper shop, hospital. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
Raising the building up onto skids. Showing Eskimos at work; building materials; oil drums. Woman in doorway (Mrs. Spriggs?) and woman and child in right corner of building; man with pipe, left hand corner.
Flagpole is on left end of the building. Summer view. Butter came in barrels like that at corner of building. Locals used them for making misigaaq (seal oil) and mikigaq (fermented whale meat and blubber).
L. to r.: Mrs. Spriggs, Harold Spriggs, Reverend Samuel Spriggs. Spriggs was the Presbyterian minister at Barrow, AK 1900. Image: "Yours sincerely, S.R. Spriggs and family."
Title taken from label on matting. View of Presbyterian church in Metlakatla, Alaska, with utility pole in front of church and another building at left. Lettering above church door reads: "Presbyterian Church." Photographer's number 8443. 1938....
Title taken from photo album. View of Presbyterian church, Juneau, Alaska, with other buildings in background and fence partially visible at right. 1891.
This color slide depicts the exterior of Utkeagvik (also spelled "Utqiagvik") Presbyterian Church in Barrow, Alaska in 1962. There is a man standing outside the church building, looking at a sign hung between two whale bones that reads, "Utkeagvik...
Several houses, Presbyterian Church or school; totem poles, canoe and stone grave marker along beach reflection in water, c. 1895. A man in a hat sits in front of one of the buildings with a small white dog.