Title taken from caption. Nurse Smith, a.k.a. "Smitty", and Sidney Connor pose for a photograph in Unalaska. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph with two women in front of a tent near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.
Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
Title is based on identification furnished by Roy David Tok, Alaska during the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention held at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, October 2005.
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.
Title taken from front. View of aftermath of explosion of 10,600 pounds of TNT at railroad construction site in Interior Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 162. June 1920. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from caption. "A 110 lb Auto, Fairbanks, Aa. A.J.P." A man on a vehicle that appears to be two bicycles connected. What may be a fuel canister can be seen between the bikes; since there don't appear to be any peddles this may...
Caption reads: "1247 W. 8th St. Los Angeles, Cal. [California]." Image is of four women smiling and leaning on an elevated lawn in front of houses and palm trees. Photos UAF-1985-122-71, UAF-1985-122-72, UAF-1985-122-73...
Title taken from caption. "15 oz of Tolovana Dust, 1917." Indexer's note - Jewelry cases or small boxes of various sizes and shapes are displayed. "Tolovana dust" could possibly be gold flakes seen here on a saucer, and covered by a drinking...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway extension of dock, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from front: "April 1, [19]17. A.E.C. G390." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G390. April 1, 1917....
"Rabbits were a welcome addition at times to the fare. Although my choice always was moose steaks." Panoramic photograph of a brace of sixteen winter furred snowshoe hare.