Two Alaska Native women, one holding an infant, standing in front of Mentasta Lake with a mountain range in the background. There are four children, one boy and three girls, standing beside them.
Title from verso. Image shows two Native men leaning against a railing. The men are dressed in fur clothing, and one man is wearing a knitted hat. Behind them a building with a business sign is visible. A man pushing a wheeled loading cart...
Title from verso. Image shows a Native man, woman and two young boys, seated near houses built of sod and wooden planking. They are dressed in European clothing. Photo may have been taken by Calvin F. Townsend, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...
Meeting of a task force at Tanana, Alaska with the following people identified: William Keeler, Hugh Wade, James Officer, Oscar Craig, Alfred Ketzler, and Clarabelle Charlie as secretary.
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...
Title from caption. Photograph of an Indian school. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right--school built and maintained for Indians by U. S. Government. All Alaskan Indians must support themselves getting only medical treatment &...
Title taken from caption. "Azoon River Indians". Collector's notes - "Several families in front of their sod houses". Collection note: All photos are in the Yukon River area of Alaska.
Title taken from caption. "11540 -- (34) On the lower Yukon and the eastern shores of Behring Sea, the skin canoe and boat are the only native means of transportation. During the open or summer season, when it is desired to make a speedy...
Title taken from caption. "9358 -- (36) We frequently see published statements to the effect that the aborigines are rapidly disappearing, but the scene here depicted contradicts such an assertion. The eleven youthful Esquimaux who make up the...
Cyanotype photograph of inhabitants of the Dena'ina village of Tyonek, Cook Inlet in 1898. Several log buildings and a cache are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, led by Edwin F. Glenn on...