Old Num: LC.344-1.1
Description: wood; paint
Found: Sitka
Culture: Aleut; Alutiiq
History: From the collection of Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff, curator of the Alaska Historical Library and Museum from 1919-1940. Purchased by...
Dining room, possibly in the Holland house in Seward, Alaska. Furniture includes round table, chair, and side table with chafing dish. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 11/16" x 4 7/8".
Title from verso: "Lieut. P.R. Sarges [Garges?], V.H. Pierce w/pipe". Two men sit with their feet on a table or desk. The one at right holds a Calabash pipe. On the wall behind them hangs a calendar reading "Martin A. Pinska" at the top and...
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.
View of three men examining a fur pelt in a store in Minto, Alaska. Photograph was taken during the Minto Winter Carnival in 1966. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Interior of the bar in McCarthy, Alaska, where a bartender pours drinks for the tourists standing at the bar. A Great Northern Railway calendar is visible on the far wall. From caption: "Just a shot of the old bar where we had a beer before supper....
Transcript of diary kept by Myrtle Ryan (later Bunger) in 1900 that describes her journey to and life in Dawson in the Yukon Territory and Nome, Alaska. Myrtle recounts how she traveled from Los Angeles, California to Skagway by boat in January...
Photograph of two Alaska Road Commission employees, seated and with their feet on the desk, in the Fairbanks office in February 1929. One is smoking a pipe. From caption: "'At work' during a rush hour."
This Polaroid photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy, who worked as a land law examiner for the Alaska Division of Lands from 1962-1969, in her office in Anchorage in 1969. She is seated at a desk covered in papers. A small sign attached to...
Title taken from verso. View of Wien Consolidated Airlines reservations office and staff, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Anchorage." 1968-1969? Original photograph size: 6 3/4" x 10".
Title taken from verso. Group photo of Archie Ferguson, Sigurd Wien, and John Cross taken in Archie Ferguson's restaurant in Kotzebue, Alaska. Also from verso: "In Kotzebue. Photo [taken] in [Ferguson's] restaurant." Photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
View of census taker with family during census in Barrow, Alaska. From verso: "Mr. John John, wife, daughter Mrs. Mary Gregory, Mrs. Agnes Farnsworth, census crew leader at Bethel. Children belong to Mary Gregory." 1950's? Photographer: Ward W....
Title taken from verso. Dorothy M. Prior, public accountant, at work in her office in Anchorage, Alaska, with adding machine and books on desk and tax forms in foreground. Signs on wall read: "Dorothy M. Prior, public acc't." and "Tax deadline...
Title taken from verso. Group photo of Matanuska Valley Bank directors in Anchorage, Alaska. Left to right: William D. Renfro, Al Swalling, ?, ?, Robert A. Baker, Richard M. Jones (standing), Dr. Asa L. Martin, Keith M. Lesh. May 31, 1961....
Title taken from information with photo. Susie and Simon Paneak working with animal hides in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
View of village elder helping student in classroom in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with another student sitting in background. April 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/8" x 2 1/8".
View of village elder teaching Inupiaq language in classroom in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. April 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".