Tells the stories of Alaskan women who have contributed to the state's economic, social, and political development, and who may serve as role models for younger women. Contains 12 lengthy question-and-answer profiles, 43 shorter profiles, and 12...
Title taken from caption. "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."
World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...
View of six women standing in front of a log cabin style building, with a large animal trap and a sign for the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce hanging on the wall behind them in Fairbanks, Alaska. This was the first meeting of the Alaska Press Women....
Group of photograph of three women. Monica Silas (middle) stands with two unidentified women at Kokrines village. What may be a wheelchair is visible to the right of the women. Ca 1925
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC postal clerk."
Congress opened hearings in March 1943 on the conversion of the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) into the Regular Army. The WAC bill was signed into law some four months...
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC (Women's Army Corps) postal clerks." The war time Army had been scattered around the world, and as a result Women's Army Corps did perform a myraid of services, such as forwarding and censoring mail and...
Title from accompanying material. The caption (written in white over the light wood of the deck) reads: "Eskimo Women showing their manner of carrying their Young. Cape Prince of Wales Alaska". The photo is also marked "Nowell" in the lower...
Title taken from image. Five women and a girl sit on the ground just outside a fence and a compound of log buildings. Another woman stands. All of the women have covered heads and wear blankets. On the ground between them are deer antlers and...
Hand-tinted photograph of two native women in a canoe. On the right side of photograph is a structure of wooden poles. A Winter & Pond tag on verso. of photograph.
Eskimo women cutting fish on beach, Tununak. (On verso: A group of Tununak people on the beach at Tununak.) Three women with children sitting on a beach cutting fish with a metal tub in front of them. In the background fish is drying on fish...
Four Alaskan Native women are standing on the beach. The women are all dressed in fur-trimmed kuspuks and mukluks or boots. There are boats nearby on the beach. There also appears to be a cross in the background, possibly...
Three women are standing in front of some trees. The woman on the right is holding an opened umbrella and what looks to be multiple purses. The two women on the left are holding tennis rackets, and handwritten on the...
Note on slide reads "Mrs. Nicols; Kasigluk." Two Alaska Native women sit close as one appears to be demonstrating to the other. There is a bowl and other items on a table where the women sit. Two Alaska...
Title taken from verso. Notes attached to the photo read, "Back, Fred Beeler, John Boswell, Wilson W. Walton, Gene Brice, Don Mueller, Robert Mize, ---, Saddie Pratt, ---, Charlie McMahan, Leslie Chester; Next to Back, Elizabeth Grigsby,...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two women standing on a snowy street in Nome. Behind them sits a house and The Trading Post. Caption from finding aid reads "Two women in Nome". Location is Nome, Alaska.