(7:50 min) (16 of 17) Medical emergencies & tourist industry While teaching at Ft. Yukon woman was having a breech birth. Agreed to take her, got everything ready and when he called to bring her to airplane the baby was born. Wien drove out...
Descriptive Narrative: Round medallion of gold-toned metal hanging from an orange and black striped ribbon.
Label: (c.1988) RUSSIAN-AMERICAN HERTIAGE MONTH The United States Congress designated October 1988 as Russian-American Heritage Month,...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Notes on Kankei Ibun (Voyages around the world)
Made with the assistance of Naoko Hoshino.
Vol. 0
Introduction
Table of contents with summary of each volume
List of illustrations
Vol. 1
Vessel Wakamiya-maru leaving Ishimaki, winter of...
Title by cataloger. Verso reads: "Larry Larson? Fuzz Rogers?"
Identified as Larry Larson by grandson Kent Lyman of Huntsville, Alabama. Larson died in a plane crash shortly before the birth of his daughter Ruth in June, 1940.
Title by cataloguer. A view of fur seals at the sea. Male Fur Seal is approximately seven feet long and weights about six hundred pounds. The female on average is five feet and weighs about three hundred pounds. A pup weighs ten pounds at...
Title by cataloguer. In the Spring, Fur Seals come to the "rookeries", beaches or Islands where they mate and give birth. The rookeries for the Northern Fur Seal are in the Pribilof and Commanders' Islands. Note: Each seal mates on the exact...
Title by cataloguer. The Fur Seals live and migrate in groups. Eight months out of the year, they migrated between the Bering Sea and the mid-California coast, but never go on shore.
When they are stationary the Fur Seals live on the...
Cora Tobuk Nictune - left; she had a pair of twins and died during the birth, in Alakaket; Eskimo woman; Susie Levine - right; Indian woman; Beatus (Teddy) Levine - far...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title from sleeve. Governor William Egan sits in a banquet room with Fannie Barber, who was the midwife at his birth. Photographer's number: 94. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from sleeve. Marston (left) shakes hands with Former Governor Bill Egan on stage at Egan's birthday party. The woman at right was the midwife at Egan's birth. Photographer's number: 94. 2 1/4 B&W negative.