U.S. Government Reindeer Project managers Joe Chase (right) and "Uncle John" using walkie-talkie to communicate with herders at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer...
Title taken from caption on slide. "Gordon Mitchell Sr., carrying his paternal uncle Mishiguq, Sishoalik 1952." An unidentified little girl is on the beach at left.
Title taken from image. Men, women and children in front of Elk's Hall with signs seeking home rule for Alaska.
Signs in image:
This is our nation. Why may we not govern it?
Home Rule. Our birthright.
Uncle Sam: We are American...
View of the Sexton family in a canoe near the dock in Seward, Alaska. The Uncle Sam is tied up at the dock and a person is visible next to the building in the background. ca. 1905-1910. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption. Photograph of Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "Here's how Dutch Harbor looked before Uncle Sam's crews began vital bases for defense of Alaska and environs. Jap [ Japanese ] bombers unleashed a retaliatory bombing raid on...
Title from verso. Photograph of Unalaska village and its harbor. Verso reads: "A view of the harbor and the village of Unalaska which is across the harbor from the United States Naval Base at Dutch Harbor, which was attacked by a...
Title from verso. Photograph of an airman carrying gear suspended from a pole across his shoulders. Verso reads: "The tasks of provisioning themselves and caring for their equipment sometimes proves as hard as smacking the Japs in fog...
Title from verso. Four sailors walk across the mud of Adak. Verso reads: "It may not look like a main stem to you, but this is "Main Street" to the men at Uncle Sam's base at Adak, in the Aleutians. Here, four sailors slosh through the mud...
Color photo of a man standing in front of 14 bear pelts . Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska on Mar. 15, 1910 and addressed to Mr. Newton Clemons, Medina Co. [County], Devine, Texas. Written on the verso, "Dear...
(3:36 min) (02 of 19) Young adult #1 Got a job CB& Q railroad working on a coal chute. Next, had to wipe the locomotives down. Went to help Uncle thresh grain. Went home to shuck corn and went north.
Title taken from caption. "9065 -- (1) In the summer of 1897 our Uncle Samuel began to discern what a bonanza he had bought from Russia 30 years before. From Sitka to Siberia the vast country seems to glitter with gold. There is said to be...
Title taken from caption on slide. "Sishoalik [Sheshalik] 1952 return trip from Kotzebue." [Gordon Mitchell, Sr., is carrying the box; Misigaq is the middle person on the boat. Compare UAF-1966-80-4.]
Title by indexer. A woman wearing riding breeches and high boots is standing by a man. Both appear to be posing for the camera. A ski plane sits behind them.
In an e-mail dated March 8, 2008, Richard Jung of Napakiak identified the...