Title taken from caption. Nurse Smith, a.k.a. "Smitty", and Sidney Connor pose for a photograph in Unalaska. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph with two women in front of a tent near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
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...
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.
Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Full title: The Aleut language, the elements of Aleut grammar with a dictionary in two parts containing basic vocabularies of Aleut and English, by Richard Henry Geoghegan; edited by Fredericka I. Martin.
Full title: Khaii ts'a / written by Katie Moore ; translated by Caroline Tritt, Lincoln Tritt ; edited by Richard Mueller, Katherine Peter ; informants, Maggie Gilbert ... [et al.] ; artists, all the children in Arctic Village School in 1975....
Full title: K'adonts'idnee / Madeline Solomon yugh noholnigee ant'aago k'adonts'idnee ; Eliza Jones halda neeydinaatldik ; [a production of the Alaska Native Language Center].
Publication: Fairbanks, Alaska : Alaska Native Language Center,...
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...
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.