View of parade during 4th of July celebrations, Valdez, Alaska, with floats and marchers. Businesses shown include Arctic Store, C.C. Rudolph, Builder & Supplies, and Second Hand Store. From front: "Valdez, Alaska. July 4, [19]11." From verso:...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Mr. Lawson, Alaska Native boat builder, at work in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8286. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/4" x 10".
Title taken from front. A view of the Seward School, Seward, Alaska, built by George H. Conklin, with the Episcopal Church at right. Also from front: "Geo[rge] H. Conklin Cont[ractor] & Builder." Dec. 1, 1914. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton.
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...
Family leaving Allakaket for summer fish camp. Note the handmade boat caulked with pitch so it won't leak. Billy Bergman, Ceza Bergman, Lindbergh Bergman, and Christopher...
Photo and title from a printed brochure kept in photo album.
Falcon Joslin (1866-1928), an attorney from Tennessee, came north to Dawson, Yukon, in 1897 and worked as a mining broker. He also organized and was president of Dawson Electric...
Title from caption. Also captioned with number "D46". Photograph shows a woman working on an overturned boat on a riverbank. In the background sits what may be a fish camp.
Title taken from caption. Photographer's number: D46 Cataloguer's note: An Alaska Native woman seen here is working on a canoe by the side of a river. She appears to be caulking the seams.
Title taken from front. View of men sitting outside a tent housing a sign and carpentry business, Anchorage, Alaska. Sign reads: "Conklin Fitzgerald: signs, wallpaper, paint, oil, glass, papering, painting and clothing. T. Hughes, carpenter...
Bust of Austin E. (Cap) Lathrop, Alaskan pioneer and businessman. From front, bust reads: "Austin E. Lathrop, builder of a northern empire. A tribute of gratitude from Alaskan citizens. Fairbanks. A.D. MCMXXXIX." 1939. Original photograph size: 5"...
Title from sleeve. Boat builder Jenses (left in hard hat) stands with Governor Walter Hickel next to the wooden frame of a boat, possibly in a workshop, at Ketchikan. Centennial boat? Photographer's number: 6035. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Photographer's notes: Aleut refugee, Atka woman. Name, Periscovia, wife of Larry Nevzoroff, boat builder. Interest: oldest woman of village. Born in Unalaska. Photographer's number 898.168.
Verso: Wm. Lewis and family. A native family at Wrangell. Mr. Lewis has for years been elected a member of the town council by white votes. The man at the extreme right is Wm. Fletcher, a brother in law, a prominent boat builder.