Title taken from verso. Man holding open a gate in a wooden fence at the Felix Altaffer Farm in 1950. A car is waiting on the drive behind him. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
Title taken from verso. A man and a woman stand next to a fence post in front of a log cabin at the Felix Altaffer Farm 1950. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
Album of 53 photographs from the Swain family's 12-day trip to Alaska aboard the S. S. ALASKA. Beginning at Pier 42 in Seattle, the images show highlights of travel through the Inside Passage to Seward and then to Anchorage by train. Shore...
Title from original photograph album. Ten children sit in a stairway with their books. From verso: Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title from original photograph album. Five young girls pose on the steps of Goode Hall at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. From verso: Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516. Original photograph size: 4 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Title taken from verso and cataloger's notes. Verso reads: "As We Began. 1950 (May)." Image shows three men standing outside a quonset hut surrounded by black spruce trees. One man appears to be jacking up the structure. Parked...
66 second film clip, color/silent, of people gathering and transporting fire wood.
A woman, working in front of a semi-subterranean house, is chopping kindling; another woman appears to be setting a small snare; men are using dog sleds to...
70 second film clip, color/silent, of fishing near Deering, Alaska. A man and a boy in a small rowboat set the net and haul it in. People on shore help pull it in and pick the fish out.
Title taken from caption. View of a crowd of people at the gates and shoots used to control the reindeer during the harvest in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken in the 1950's. Original photograph size: 2 1/2" x 3".
Title taken from caption. View of a young man holding up the head of a reindeer while two other men work at butcher the animal. Photograph taken in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken in the 1950's. Original photograph size: 2 1/2" x 3".
Title taken from caption. View of a woman with an infant and several children during the reindeer harvest in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken in the 1950's. Original photograph size: 2 1/2" x 3".
Title taken from caption. View of Juneau, Alaska from aboard ship. Judging by the direction of the wake, the image was taken from the stern of the ship while departing Juneau.