Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...
View of men cutting up whale at whaling station, Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Whale. Akutan, Alaska. Whaling station in Aleutian Islands." n.d. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Descriptive Narrative: Board with ivory peg, two finger holds, painted red on grooved side and black on the other.
Description: wood; ivory; painted; red; black
Inscription: Aleutian hand stick for throwing spear Akutan Island (writing)...
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows western end of the Alaska Peninsula, with Unga, Unimak & Akutan Islands as well as Kuskokwim Bay and the Pribilofs. Shows tracks of Billings and Sarychev. Map no. 21 from v. 4 of "Atlas...
View of men dismembering a blue whale at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Akutan whaling station." Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.75".
The twenty-three page album includes 105 black and white prints and a packet of scraps of paper with Japanese writing on them. Subjects of the photographs include Attu Island scenes including tug boats, cargo ships, steamships and docks, Holtz Bay...
Title taken from verso. View of Glenn H. Bowersox holding an industrial whale harpoon at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from verso. View of blue whale carcass laid out in front of large building at whaling station at Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen fighter, flown by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Toga in attack on Dutch Harbor, June 3-4, 1942. Toga's plane was hit in the oil line and trailing smoke; he tried to land on Akutan Island, but his wheels sank between...
Title from caption on image Buildings in Akutan, Eastern Aleutians: 1. White man's store; 2. Russian Church; 3. Chief's house; 4. Farther huts Photographer's number 3888c