Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: This picture captures a group of Alaska Native women and children. Strips of meat and fish can be seen drying on the tall rack in front of the large house. A man dressed in a suit and tie and a bowler...
Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows walrus meat and blubber spread out on a beach. Some people are standing nearby with a boat. Caption from finding aid reads "Walrus meat on beach on St. Lawrence Island". Location is St. Lawrence...
Title taken from the back of photograph. Additional description with photo. The split hide on drying rack with the meat. Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
View of men cutting up whale at whaling station, Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Whale. Akutan, Alaska. Whaling station in Aleutian Islands." n.d. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...
Interior view of a DC-3 loaded with approximately 200 pigs being transported to Anchorage, Alaska as part of the first commercial shipment of livestock to Anchorage directly from another country. From caption in newspaper article: "These little...
Title taken from caption. View of two women hanging beluga whale meat out to dry after a successful whale hunt. The photograph was taken on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska. Behind the woman to the left is a man taking a photograph. In the background...