Young girls at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska line up to receive a dose of medicine in front of a stove. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." ca. 1946-1955. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
A woman wearing a headscarf and coat seems to be adhering a bandage on the stomach of a seated man with shirt open, There is a bandage on the man's shoulder. On the table near the man appears to be medicine or...
Photograph of the inside of a tent, with a smallpox patient at the Saint John's Mission in Allakaket, Alaska. Visible in this ward are two pitchers, one on a stove, presumably for heating water, some hand towels above the patients head, on a shelf...
"It was from this man from whom I obtained the medicine box, with the contents of which (as he told me) he could cure any ailment of any individual on the island. it had been used by a good many Angakoks before him." Note from Harold McCracken.
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza with a log cabin in the background. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first morning, before...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Old Eliza walking in Stevens Village with a log building in the background. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man standing with a Native Alaskan woman. They are standing in front of a log cabin. Caption from album reads: "Mr. Holmberg and the Old Medicine Woman. The old woman has great influence over the other...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Terrified at the thought of staying indoors after fleeing from the Alaskan earthquake area, the David Wilson family of Portage fled inland and spent the night sleeping out in the open. ...
Title taken in part from finding aid. Photograph shows three Alaska Native women and three children standing beside an Alaska Department of Health, Mobile Health Unit truck. Sign on side of truck is partially visible and reads "Mobile Health Unit. ...
Photograph shows F/S Hygiene (left), along side of larger M/S Hygiene II. Ship's name "Hygiene" is visible on the bow. Original photograph size: 2½ X 3½ inch.
Group photo of 179th Station Hospital personnel based at the Adak Army Air Field in the Aleutians, Alaska from 1943-1945. Original photograph size: 8 x 10 inch.
Military personnel marching in formation down a dirt road past a line of ambulances in Adak, Alaska. Quonset huts and other buildings of the 179th Station Hospital visible in the background. Original photograph size: 3 1/2 x 5 inch.
Nurses from the 179th Station Hospital stand at attention during a unit dress parade on Adak Island, Alaska, August 1943 - October 1945. Original photograph size: 3 1/2 x 5 inch.
Looking along a street at a series of wooden buildings in Kodiak. The Public Health Office for Kodiak is housed in one of the buildings. A burned-out Russian Orthodox church is visible at the head of the street. Original photograph size: 2 1/2 x 4...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Man squats next to dog laying in snow. He holds dog's paw in one hand, and appears to have a brush in the other hand. Other dogs lienearby. Slide labeled, 'Photo copyright Joe Redington Sr....
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Two men kneel in snow near dogs. Sled visible at right. Possibly an Iditarod Race official checking the dog team upon arrival in a checkpoint. Slide labeled, 'Photo Original format: 35mm color...