A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Photograph with an attached caption that reads: Supreme Court and Superior Court Justices - First Court System of the State of Alaska -- Seated, L. to R.: Walter Hodge; Buell A. Nesbitt; and John H. Dimond. Standing, l. to r. -- Walter E. Walsh;...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "1939. B.C. - Near Telegraph Creek. Slim -." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
04 First jobs in Alaska (5:04 min.) (04 of 09) Lockheed Vega took her to Fairbanks. Bush flying was what she wanted, but she couldn't get hired in Fairbanks. Herb Hagler at Fairbanks Air Service wouldn't give her a job as a pilot, but he told...
Original photograph of the Committee of Fifteen - Having
charge of the Anti-Chinese Agitation in Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1885. 1. A. U. Mills
2. M. Kaufman
3. E. G. Bacon
4. John Budlong
5. Jacob Ralph
6. H. A....
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
Note on slide reads "quinok." A man in uniform, a hat with a white object that could be a badge, stands on a board sidewalk looking back at the camera. Nearby another man, wearing a striped shirt, dark jacket and...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
Title from verso. Image shows two young men shaking hands beside a log cabin. The young man on the right is wearing a fur parka and mukluks and stands beside a wooden crate. A third man wearing a white frock and holding a wash basin stands...
Title by indexer. Image shows a woman seated at a table, lighting a cigarette with a match. The woman is wearing glasses, jewelry, a watch and plaid pants. An insignia or a pin is visible on her turtleneck sweater. On the wall behind her hang...
Title from verso. Caption on verso also reads, "Henry A. Wallace by ladder." Image shows a man and a young child standing in a silage trench. The man is wearing a suit and the child is wearing a knitted hat. The walls of the trench are...
Title from caption. Image shows several people standing in front of a wooden building with a glassed in porch. Above the house is a windmill with a sign projecting from it with the words "Imperial" and "Spokane, Wash" visible on the sign. The...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "1-. 30." Image shows a man and a woman performing a dance routine to musical accompaniment. The man is dressed in a suit and the woman in a dancing costume. Behind them a male musician holds a trumpet and a...