Title taken from caption. Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa painting the ship. Original image blurred. From May's journal, dated June 10th: "The men are now painting the ship, endevoring [sic] to make it look smart and snappy...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows an elderly man standing and holding his palette while working on an oil painting. The painting depicts Alaska Native people wearing parkas in a winter scene. The man is wearing glasses, a shirt, pants,...
Title taken from caption. View of crew painting the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. Photograph taken near Kodiak Island during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
(4:26 min) (05 of 19) Illinois Central Railroad Met a man working for the Illinois Central Railroad. Next job was painting for the Illinois Central Railroad. While he was there he put in for the steel gang building and repairing railroad...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from label on matting. King Island Eskimo chief Aulaġana (John Olarana) stands against umiak as Father Bernard Hubbard and two children watch Ken Chisholm paint letters on boat at beach in Nome, Alaska, with ship in far right...
Title taken from label on matting. Three children and Father Bernard Hubbard (partially visible at right) watch Ken Chisholm paint letters on umiak on beach at Nome, Alaska. Umiak was used by Father Hubbard to travel to Point Barrow, Alaska. Also...
The room is furnished with a small book case. A portrait of a child sits on top of the shelf, as does a clock and what looks like decorative pottery or perhaps a basket. A high round table stands in the center of the room; a vase is placed as its...
Scenes from the Alaska State Museum at Juneau. Items include Southeast Alaska artwork, a petroglyph from Wrangell, Eskimo stone anchors, an early Russian cannon from Kodiak, a copy of "Signing the Alaska Treaty", a hand-sewn 36-star American flag...
Title from verso of a similar photo. "The Red Star of Russia is a familiar sight at East Base and has been for months and months. With the lifting of military secrecy, this southern station of the Alaskan Division, ATC, has been disclosed as...
Title from verso. "The Red Star of Russia is a familiar sight at East Base and has been for months and months. With the lifting of military secrecy, this southern station of the Alaskan Division, ATC, has been disclosed as the funnel for a vast...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Title from sleeve. Man indentified as an engineer for the Alaska Highway stands looking at a painting of a polar bear in the home of Walter Hickel. Photographer's number: 17988. 2 1/4 B&W negative.