Built in 1917, the Lighthouse Tender/Patrol Vessel CEDAR was acquired by the Navy in 1917 and returned to Lighthouse Service in July 1919; she was reclassified as USCGC CEDAR in 1939 and, during World War II, designated WAGL-207
Title taken from label on matting. Major Gieb, engineer, stands next to large cross section of red cedar tree in Ketchikan, Alaska, with boat in left background and building in right background. Photographer's number 8378. 1938. Photographer: Ray...
Title taken from label on matting. Mrs. Tom Adams and dog in canoe at Klawock, Alaska, with girl (Clara Peratrovich George) barely visible in left end of boat. Photographer's number 8423. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Mrs. Tom Adams rowing dugout canoe at Klawock, Alaska, with girl sitting in canoe at right. From verso: "Steve Langdon 'Little girl in canoe is Clara Peratrovich (Mrs. Robert George)." Photographer's...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Mrs. Tom Adams rowing dugout canoe at Klawock, Alaska, with girl (Clara Peratrovich George) barely visible in left end of boat. Photographer's number 8422. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
Title from image caption Tlingit village or Fish Camp, possibly Wrangell; two Tlingit women and two children in front of a tent, along with building covered with lumber and cedar bark slabs; woman in foreground is weaving a cedar bark mat
Description at top of image: "Cedar boxes made without nails or corner joints…these were enclosed or wrapped in cedar mats and contained the heads which were preserved with skin, etc. intact." On verso: "Found by [Myer] Hofstad on Zarembo...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: red cedar, paint, beads, wire. Cedar bird figure composed of base, body and hanging array. Signed, titled and dated on bottom of base. Size: 77.5 x 45 x 16.75 in. Artist Information: Born: 1919, Cordova, Alaska,...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: red cedar, paint, beads, wire. Cedar bird figure composed of base, body and hanging array. Signed, titled and dated on bottom of base. Size: 77.5 x 45 x 16.75 in. Artist Information: Born: 1919, Cordova, Alaska,...
Displayed between the couple is a bentwood tray, carved from yew wood; the North Wind is represented by the applique figures on the blanket or robe Note: Photograph was published in Monuments in Cedar, by Edward Keithahn, page 94
Two girls pose outside behind six chests of the type brought to Alaska during the maritime fur trade of the early 19th century; picket fence and houses in background Note: Photograph was published in Monuments in Cedar, by Edward L. Keithahn,...
View over the housetops, looking toward the school and shed up on hill; also shows retaining wall of cedar around play ground; according to the teacher, Tenakee "exists because of the mineral health springs"
Title taken from verso. Photograph of rails running along waterfront in front of wooden houses. Cedar canoes on snow covered beach. A woman stands looking down the track away from the camera.