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...
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".
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...
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".
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".
Title taken from verso. View of Glenn H. Bowersox holding an industrial whale harpoon at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title from caption on image Buildings in Akutan, Eastern Aleutians: 1. White man's store; 2. Russian Church; 3. Chief's house; 4. Farther huts Photographer's number 3888c
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, flown by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga in an attack on Dutch Harbor, June 4, 1942. His plane was hit on the oil line. When Koga attempted to land on Akutan Island, the wheels of his plane sank between hummocks,...