Daylight comes in through a window made of ice. A large door on one end allowed the boat through. The holes for the lashing were handmade. This driftwood frame was lighter than with modern techniques. Workshops were heated with seal oil lamps....
Man and a woman stand on bow of boat; from an album of photographs taken during a reconnaissance trip to Alaska with Ira Gabrielson, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Three men stand on the upper deck of the steamboat NORTH STAR, which is at its winter berth, on the shore of the Yukon River; the boat is surrounded by snow, and a pile of split wood is on deck.