Title from caption in photo album. Full Caption reads: "The Alaskan Polar Bear Hockey Team 1 Pat O'Neill 'Alaska's native son' (Trainer) 2 Glen Franklin 'We GOT to win this game fellows' (Manager) 3 Doc. L. L. Hufman 'Judge of scotch'...
Trapper Peter Britch displays finished beaver pelts in Anchorage, Alaska, after trapping trip. April 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
According to a Jan. 2, 2010, e-mail from Harold Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist of Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, "This was probably a 'shoreboat' in Sitka. ...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Johnson and Bertha Moses in front of the mission in Allakaket. They have just finished tagging their beaver catch. That winter they got 30-40 beaver. It was about 1957....
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a recently constructed birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "After the sewing, all seams are covered with a mixture of pitch, gathered from the trees, cooked with grease. This hardens but is...
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...
Roald Amundsen the arctic and subarctic explorer is seen in this photograph after his arrival in Nome, Alaska. He had just finished his flight on the Norge, which had flown over the north pole.
Title from donor notes. Photograph shows David Frankson sitting at a kitchen table, weaving a baleen basket. Several finished baskets and some tools can be seen on the table.
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
(4:02 min) (02 of 17) First job Bill Shoddy & George Gilbertson. Roomed at Francis Doyle's boarding house now National Bank of Alaska, in the Northward Building-$68 a month. Went to look at the University, if he enrolled at University room...
(3:16 min) (03 of 17) Army, teaching and Fish & Game Trained in Sta. Maria California (Moffitt Field) finished in 1942. James C. Ryan old instructor talked about jobs. Got out of Army during WWII to teach school, took Gov. Gruening and Rep....