76 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows two sternwheelers, the Alice and the General J. W. Jacobs, traveling on the Yukon River. A short segment near the end shows dogs tied up on a barge.
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
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. ...
Group portrait of the following people: Back row, from left: Roy Peratrovich; Andrew Hope: Cyril Zuboff; Mrs. Joe Williams; Al Widmark; Mark Jacobs, Sr.; John Hope. Front row, from left: Frank Peratrovich; Joe Williams; Steve Hotch; Percy Hope and...
Image: Ka-Sh-Ak, the Monkeyman. Skan-Doo [Skundoo], notorious old medicene [medicine] man. Ind-A-Yanek (Swatka), the famous Indian guide. Three brothers, old head-men of the Kak-Von-Tons [Kaagwaantaan] of the Chilkat tribe. Copyright 1907....
Klukwan cemetery with eight grave houses, one with frog totem decorations. According to Louis Shotridge’s notes, this was designed and carved by a Dakl’aweidí carver named Naakushtáa. The same carver made the screen and houseposts inside the...
Left to right: Mary Perkins (Káaduju.oo), Kiks.ádi Steel House, Sitka; Josephine Patterson (Aklé), Kaagwaantaan Wolf House, Sitka;
Annie Dick (Kaasenák), Chookaneidi, Sitka;
Ray Nielsen (wearing Eagle Shirt), Káa se éesh, Chookaneidi...
Text on photo reads: "After Storm Nov. 17". View of the wreckage of the Lincoln Bar in Nome after a storm on Nov 17, 1945. "Jacobs [Studio] Nome" written on bottom right of photograph. Two wooden buildings adjacent to the wreckage are intact. ...
The man wears regalia featuring bear designs; he holds a rattle in one hand and, in the other, the Kaagwaantaan Bear Staff Kuchein (Martin White) of the Kookhítaan or "Box House People" in Sitka, with his wife Yaast'ooch whose clan was...