View of blanket toss and spectators on City Hall grounds, 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, during Fur Rendezvous celebrations. From verso: "Anchorage, 1940. This is where they were throwing them up in the skin blanket. Property of the Cook Inlet...
Apple trees near Seward, Alaska are in bloom. Building and fence visible in background. ca. 1940. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
View of railroad depot in Seward, Alaska, as seen from Resurrection Bay. Mount Marathon is visible in the background. 1940? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from notes. " Eskimo children 1940 not sure (looks somewhat like the Koozoata (?) family)." Additional notes read: " This is dried stuff for insulation between layers ". Property of Leighton Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD.
View of a cross-country skier wearing bib number 25 at a ski race with a group of spectators. Also from caption: "ca 1940's, probably Anchorage". Photograph most likely taken in Anchorage, Alaska. Photograph taken in the 1940's. Original photograph...
Title taken from caption. View of five children lined up for the photograph in front of the Spenard bathhouse in Anchorage, Alaska. The bathhouse is a log building with a sign that reads: "No dogs allowed in these waters". A large number of other...
Howard Jonish (on left) standing outside the Kotzebue Grille, ca. 1940's. Text on photograph reads "Kotzebue Grille America's Farthest North Restaurant." Howard Jonish was a construction engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, from...
View of Kotzebue downtown, 1940's. Two people are walking down a dirt road past local businesses. Signs read (foreground to background): "Rotman Stores General Merchandise", "Midnight Sun Theatre", "Ferguson Stores 76". Original photograph size:...
Junior Ambasadors to Alaska special event pass from the Golden Gate International Exposition at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California. Pass reads: "SPECIAL EVENT. G.G.I.E. TREASURE ISLAND. * * * * BEARER * * * *. JUNIOR AMBASSADORS TO...
Title from verso. Photograph shows a group of children and adults posing by a trailer at Golden Gate International Exposition site at Treasure Island in San Francisco. A group of eight boys from Presidio Junior HIgh School traveled to Alaska as...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "1940?" View of Mike and Anastasia Hodikoff, and their son, Gorga, in front of a building in Unalaska. Anastasia is wearing a fur stole around her shoulders. Photograph taken around 1940.
Title taken from verso. View of football game being played on snowy baseball fields with spectators watching from bleachers, Anchorage, Alaska. 1940. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from verso. Students at Eklutna Vocational School, Eklutna, Alaska, with telegraph apparatus. ca. 1940. Original photograph size: 7 5/8" x 9 1/2".