View of the Tallapoosa life ring. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "The Tallapoosa is a small boat but has a very neat appearance. It is 160 feet long and has 900 tons displacement. It served in the Atlantic waters from April 1917 until November...
Title taken from caption. View of the deck aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat Alert. The life preserver reads: "U.S. Coast Guard Alert." From May's journal, dated June 28th: "The Alert is about 120 feet long and has five hundred tons...
Title taken from caption. The cook for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne poses for a photograph. Caption continues: "Life preservers hung out to dry." Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Title taken from verso. View of voting results from Alaska Statehood polls in Anchorage, Alaska, with KENI-TV camera at right. From results on sign in photo: "Statehood vote. No. 1: Alaska: Yes: 8017. No: 1991. Local: Yes: 8164. No: 261. No. 2:...
This is the diary of Abraham, an Eskimo boy. His family had a camp on the ice off Point Hope area. He describes his daily life from May 8, 1912 to June 10, 1912. The last few pages of the diary contain first names and statistics, possibly height...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
(3:41 min.) (01 of 24) 01 Early life & family history Raised in Baltimore, MD. Life was tough so he went to sea. Traveled the world. Went to West coast because heard might make more money. In 1934, started with Alaska Steamship Co. ...
Title from title frame. 60 second film clip, black & white/silent, of campus life at Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. Clip starts with a train at the Fairbanks rail depot. People are loading baggage into a pickup truck. ARR...
One minute, black & white, silent film clip of campus life at Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. Clip starts with a train at the Fairbanks rail depot. People are loading baggage into a pickup truck. ARR engine no. 1 figures...
Title taken from caption. "11506 -- (35) Some of the sites selected by the prospectors who joined the stampede to the Yukon in 1898 were both picturesque and romantic.
In the view here represented, a cosy spot has been chosen under the...