Title taken from caption. View of flooded street in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 1929. Several people are crossing flooded ground on a wooden sidewalk to the right of the photograph.
Title taken from caption. Aft view of the sternwheeler Gen'l J. W. Jacobs in Nenana, Alaska. Major Gillette sits on a dock piling next to the vessel. From verso: "The river boat that took us from Nenana to Russian Mission. This boat is run by the...
View of a boy leaning over the railing aboard a car ferry crossing the Tanana River. A truck is on the ferry and the town of McCarty (later Big Delta) appears in the background. From verso: "Car ferry on Richardson Highway across the Tanana at...
Title taken from caption. View of a wooden plank pathway to the church, with orthodox crosses marking graves on the right. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Sand Point, Alaska, on Popof Island. From verso: "Sandy Point, Schumagin Islands." From May's journal, dated June 29th: "Sand Point was reached at six o'clock. It is a small community comprised of a cannery,...
Title taken from caption. Alan May, William Clemes, and William S. Laughlin excavating. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of expedition members walking along a path on Kagamil Island. From left to right: William Laughlin, William Clemes, Harold Cowper, and the Ariadne's photographer. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "'Nigger head and the Spencer in the distance." The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) sits in Nikolski Bay to the right of the geographical feature now known as High Hill on...
Title taken from caption. View of a rock formation carved by water. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. An unidentified Alaska Native boy watches the excavators make plans. Alan May is in the light colored jacket, Ales Hrdlicka to the right. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
Title taken from caption. Men walking along a path on Kagamil Island. From left: Alan May, William Laughlin, William Clemes, and Harold Cowper. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. View of archaeological dig site. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. William Clemes and William Laughlin looking at the excavation. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of rock formations on Amlia Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of the shoreline of Amlia Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of the shipwrecked minesweeper USS Swallow. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.