Title taken from caption. View of a graveyard near a Bristol Bay cannery. Cross on left reads: "RIP ? Arnold Natural de Italia. Murio el dia 6 de Junio de 1932 edad 54 anos". Middle cross reads: "RIP Candido Palafos Natural de Mexico. Murio el dia...
Title taken from caption. View of "Ozzie" Osborne working at the excavation site on Kodiak Island. He is utilizing expedition equipment, including shovels and a wheelbarrow. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's...
Title taken from caption. View of seven men posing for a photograph in front of an exposure. Each man is holding some type of expedition equipment, including shovels, pickaxes, or a rifle. Some men are wearing glasses, and one is smoking a pipe....
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.
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Title taken from caption. Plaque aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. Plaque reads: "Semper Paratus. U.S.S. Tallapoosa C.G. served in the World War April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918. Patrol duty - Atlantic waters." Photograph taken during...
Title taken from caption. Yakutat residents meet the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa take a lunch break on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "At Mile 18 [on Lake Kenai] we went in three different parties in a motor boat...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa walk down a road near Ptarmigan Creek, a tributary of Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "There is a highway here [Ptarmigan Creek] which I am told goes...
Title taken from caption. View of two Alaska Native men aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris. En route to Nikolski. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa assist with excavations. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Aleš Hrdlička, Captain Noble G. Ricketts, and the Executive Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa traveling in a launch to the village of Nikolskoe on Bering Island. From May's journal, dated July...
Title taken from caption. View of railroad snow removal cut in snowslide with sections of the cut filled in with new slides between Tunnel and Grandview, Alaska. 1946. Original photograph size: 5 1/4" x 3 1/8".
Title taken from caption. View of mounted gun aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane (formerly the William J. Duane). Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Three lions." View of several trees with mountains in the background. From May's journal, dated June 30th: "Near this site is a small cluster of trees, the only trees west of Kodiak. They were planted by the...
Title taken from album caption. View of teams standing by their sleds harnessed to reindeer. The three men at the front of the line wear sashes that say Noorvik.
Title taken from caption. View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland in Unalaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Attu, showing several homes, villagers and the church in the background. There are two troughs, or containers in the foreground, one filled with sacks. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Amoknak – 1936. Last exposures." Two members of the expedition work on the Amaknak dig site. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...