Title from verso. Image shows a woman standing in a large garden holding her hands up. A leafy plant that looks like rhubarb is in the foreground and a plant that looks like flowering potatoes is visible on the right side of the image. A...
Amason, Alvin (artist). Audio, 2:36 minutes MP3 format. Alvin Amason talks about how he named his painting "Oscar Scared Him with His Icon" at a UA Museum of the North Geist lecture
"Native girs at Waynewright. It's just like a 'teeter-totter' only they stand up." The home and barn visible in the photograph looks remarkably like a farmhouse.
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "Joe Allabough. Mgr." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two men standing underneath an airplane wing. They are standing on a beach, and it looks like there may be a town in the background. This looks like it may be the wing of a Grumman Widgeon. See also:...
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...
Title from verso. Photograph of a corporal sharing coffee with another soldier. Verso reads: "Nothing like a spot of coffee, particularly on bleak Attu! Corporal Carl Gompf (left) of Marion, O., and Colonel R.G. F[P]erusson (right) of...
Title from indexer. Image is a postcard. Image shows a small circle with the image of children in it. A postage stamp can also be seen reading "Burlington N.J., Nov. 10, 8 AM, 1909". Verso of postcard reads "Dear sister, I like the [?] baby...
Title from caption: "Front St., Ruby, Alaska, Jan. 11, 1912."
Street scene of downtown Ruby, Alaska. Rows of businesses and shops are shown with pedestrians walking outside in the snow. Postcard is postmarked from Tanana, Alaska on Feb. 15,...
Color photo of a person push poling a boat down the Yukon River. Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Oct. 24, '09. Dear...
Four Eskimo girls are standing with three reindeer in front of a tent. Postcard is addressed to Mr. Newton Clemons, Devine, Texas, Medina Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Dear brother Newton, I received your postal of...
Color postcard postmarked from Cordova on Apr. 19, 1910 and addressed to Miss Tomie Clemons, Devine, Texas, Medina Co. [County]. Written on verso, "4-17-10. Dear little sister Tomie, have just received your long and...
(4:48 min.) (09 of 24) 09 Food and health on-board the ship Beef served frequently and caused complaints. Sometimes it was the waiter's fault, sometimes it was the traveler's fault, and sometimes it was the sea. The nurse had to help lots...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. "Yes - Russian GI's like 'pin-ups' too. (Who doesn't?) Here, even at two-thirty in the morning Sr. Sgt. Karnaoukh takes time out to show M/Sgt. Kostin his collection of 'pin-ups'. Photo by US Army Air Forces."
Title taken from verso. Close up photograph of two older Inupiat women eating muktuk. The woman on the left is in a fur trimmed parka. Verso: "Muktuk Eating Contest (Seal or whale blubber after a sort of pickling process - the pink is the blubber -...