From image captions: Kids (Matilda, Mary Ann, George, and Grace) going to take a fawn out to feed on grass and leaves after feeding it milk from [a] baby’s bottle. Its mother abandoned it after some of the kids put their hands on it, as the...
From image captions: Some of herd of E.B. "Duffy" O'Connor just reaching land after crossing river at lower end of Salmon Lake, 50 miles back of Nome, Alaska, 1925
Close-up view of men, butchering walruses on dock Additional information from verso: E.B. O'Connor and Natives cutting up 30 tons of walrus meat received as part payment for services on a hunting and moving picture trip with Capt. L.L. Lane...
View of people butchering walruses on dock; walrus hides piled up in foreground; houses in background on opposite side [of river] Additional information from verso: E.B. O'Connor and Natives cutting up 30 tons of walrus meat received as part...
Broad view of beach, with walrus butchering on dock; water and ship in background Additional information from verso: E.B. O'Connor and Natives cutting up 30 tons of walrus meat received as part payment for services on a hunting and moving...
Overview of walrus butchering activities on beach, with houses in background [across river] Additional information from verso: E.B. O'Connor and Natives cutting up 30 tons of walrus meat received as part payment for services on a hunting and...
Full caption reads: "Pilots of fleet of eight 'aristocrats' before leaving Washington, D.C., June 20, 1929, on the longest air tour ever undertaken. Center (left to right) C. S. Rieman, President, General...
Title and description taken from verso. Hand tinted photograph. Verso: At C.O. Walker's, the most Northern Florist in the world, at Skagway, Alaska. Left to right: A.F. Swenbsen, friend of Secretary Jardine, Boisie, Idaho. George A....
Photograph with the following caption attached: Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska visits the Public Roads Administration camp in Whitehorse and is photographed with the ranking officers of the North-west Command. From left: Brigadier General...
Photograph with verso caption: "Alaska Statehood backers jubilant-Members of the U. S. Congress who led the fight to make Alaska the 49th state of the Union join with Alaska's Govenor and Congressmen elect in celebrating the final passage of...
Two horses haul a hay wagon, one man rides and two other are nearby. Another horse is in the background. These three horses are all the horses in Fort Yukon at this time. The men are identified as Dinny O'Brien, George Busoks and George...
(4:01 min.) (01 of 27) Family history: Grandfather
Grandfather from Virginia, fought for Union, was a soldier at Sitka during the signing in 1868. Father stayed and married a Creole, part Aleut. Got a Job with the A. C. Co. Grandfather...
(3:26 min.) (02 of 27) Family history: Father
Father from Norway at 10 years old. 1896 came to Alaska for the Hope/Sunrise gold rush. Father carried mail from Seward to Matanuska Valley. Father wouldn't eat Hooligan. Ran a transport boat...
(3:24 min.) (03 of 27) Early life
Woody born in Eyak near Cordova. Rotary snow plow near the roundhouse pushed by 3-4 locomotives. Had to synchronize the exhaust from the four engines and the rotary snow plow.
(5:38 min.) (04 of 27) Early work history
Left Cordova to go to school at Alaska School of Mines and Agriculture (UAF). Took civil engineering courses. By the time he had graduated, the railroads had shut down and there were only jobs in...