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 front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
Jim and John Jefferies hold a string of black bass between them in Seward, Alaska. Jim Jefferies is possibly James J. Jeffries, the boxer, who visited Seward with his brother John. From front: "100 black bass caught by Jim & John Jefferies. L.N.G....
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...
Fire sweeping through town engulfs the Seward Beer & Wine Parlor during the 1943 fire in Seward, Alaska. 1943. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 3 1/4" x 4 1/2".
Cyanotype photograph of Martha White, right, and her mother, left, in Sunrise, Alaska in 1898. The child is wearing a hat and holding a cat. A man, several wooden buildings and a pile of logs are visible in the background. Photograph taken during...
Title taken from front of photograph. Street view of three houses along Second Avenue in Seward, Alaska. The first house on the left has construction supplies lying in the front yard. 1906? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original photograph size: 4...
From front: "Fourth St from F. Looking west Anchorage Alaska Aug 28th 1915." 4th Avenue Anchorage 1915. Verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Aug. 28, 1915. Photographer: Alberta Pyatt. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
Title taken from front. Crowd of people watching two foot racers, Knik, Alaska, in front of Pioneer Hotel. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." July 4, 1914. Photographer: O. G. H. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5...
Title taken from caption. View of 1955 Ford in front of log cabin and garage, Anchorage, Alaska, with another building and vehicle in right background. 1953-1959. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
Title taken from front. Two hunters with moose antlers in Seward, Alaska, with buildings in background. ca. 1904-1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from verso. View of roadhouse at mile 21, Valdez Trail, Alaska. Also from verso: "Mi[le] 21." n.d. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Gabe Gust was the captain of this barge. Levelock Corporation owed this barge, that transferred goods from Naknek to Lake Iliamna area and down the chain.
Title taken from caption. View of a person standing next to a large cache in Unalakleet, Alaska, with salmon drying in front. Photograph taken July 6, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. Expedition members dig at the Umnak site. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.