Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Gisberg, 'Snake,' 'Doc,' and 'Mac.'" View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "One old timer there told me...
Title taken from caption. Alan May's description of Chief Dirks of Atka. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from slide mount. View of air strip at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, as seen from vehicle (airplane?) on runway. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Title taken from slide mount. View of snowy airstrip at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote radar site and operated from 1953-early...
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Anastasia Hodikoff of Attu in 1936. From May's journal, dated July 26th: "After church I got the Chief's wife to let me take a picture of her making an Attu basket. I think she rather liked the idea, for she...
View of damage to buildings in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes a person, cars, stores, a taxi cab, and power lines. Sign on building, far right, reads May's Cafe. Sign on the street reads For Sale or Will Build...
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak – 1936 Pots on point." View of excavated checkalinas, or storage containers. From May's journal, dated June 13th: "I found a good lamp, some points and three chekalinas. ...These chekalinas are dishes...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "This is one of the places the Japs landed." View of Chief Michael Hodikof and his son eating lunch on a beach at Holtz Bay. From May's journal, dated July 16th: "The natives, when the fishing is poor,...
Title taken from caption. Sidney Connor walking along the Juneau-Douglas bridge. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "Wednesday afternoon Connor and I walked part of the way to Douglas, over the new $150,000 bridge. We got pretty wet for it has...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Sophie (right) and the cook backgammoning in Shelikof strait, or somewhere." View of two men playing acey deucey, a variant of backgammon. From May's journal, dated June 29th: "About noon we passed Mitrofania...
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. View of Kenneth "Sandy" Chisholm and Ed Levin, both of whom accompanied Father Bernard Hubbard on trips to Alaska. Image taken aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. From May's...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Reading left to right, his nephew, Sandy Chisholm, Father Hubbard and Ed Levin." Bernard Stanley, Kenneth "Sandy" Chisholm, Father Hubbard and Ed Levin pose for a photograph aboard the U.S. Coast Guard...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak – 1936, fire place, west banks." From May's journal, dated June 9th: "The Doctor uncovered a nice fireplace from which I saved a lot of seed found in a shell which was used for food. This is is the...
Title taken from caption. A crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa climbs across a ladder toward a timber trestle and the dock in the deserted mining town of Latouche, site of the former Beatson mine of the Kennecott Copper...