The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Sign for Earthquake Park, where huge tracts of land slid into the Inlet during 1964 Alaska Earthquake, in Anchorage, Alaska. Seal with totem pole and Alaska flag at left. Sign reads: "Alaska Purchase Centennial 1867-1967. Earthquake Park. 'And...
Title taken from caption. " Glacier under the tundra mosses, Peluk Creek, Nome Alaska. Lomen Bros, Nome # 647 ". Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo size 3 x 6 .
Title taken from the back of photograph. "Hauling a chunk of meat out of the cellar." Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title taken from the back of the photograph. Dried meat and blubber are stored in " meat cellars " in the ground. This woman is climbing down to get some meat for her dogs. " Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title taken from note with photo. "Turnagain area Anchorage following the Alaskan Earthquake 27 March 1964." An Alaska Army National Guardsman straddles a crack in the earth. In the background, slanting trees and houses stand on the shifted...
Title taken from caption. View of two ruined barabaras in the Katmai Village. A barabara is a semisubterranean house framed with wood (often driftwood) and covered with sod or turf. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to...
View of a path leading to several barabaras near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. The wife of Agefangel Prokopiof, the second chief, poses for a photograph in front of a barabara in Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of a path leading to the barabara of a resident of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of barabaras, or semi-subterranean homes, and the chief's house in the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Photograph of the wood and sod building where Sidney Connor and "Ozzie" Osborne lived on Little Kiska Island. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "10, July 1935." Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph in front of a barabara near Attu. She is wearing a checkered dress and knit cap. From May's journal, dated July 26th:...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 5 seconds, MPG-1 format. Polar-orbiting satellites can orbit the Earth in 90 minutes, enabling them take daily photos of nearly everywhere on...
Mound of earth and other material with what appears to be a chimney and slabs of wood that could be doors. Debris is scattered on the ground near the igloo. Nearby is a log building. A pile of logs and a white house...
Title from caption. Photograph shows three men standing on a pile of earth in the middle of a field of grass; they are using wheelbarrows. Caption also reads: "No. 12. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".