The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Group photograph of Alaska Natives with Army and Navy Personnel. Some of the group sit on furniture and some sit on caribou skin rugs. A pennent on the wall notes the Anchorage B.S.A. 2nd Alaskan Air Encampment. May be Alaska Territorial Guard...
"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
Title from caption. Bottom right corner of the image also bears the inscription "Shade." Image shows several dozen men, women, and children dressed in costumes for a masquerade ball, posing on a wooden floor for a photograph at Fort...
A reduced version of the De l'Isle/Buache map published by the Prussian Academy of Science & Literature, published by Euler, a German mathematician who was with the St. Petersburg Academy. Shows routes of Russian discoveries in 1723, 1732, and...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Doc Billam [ Billum ] with what may be his family and two horse drawn sleds. A log building is behind and to the left on the photo. Writing on image reads: "Doc Billam and two klutches" "Copper River Natives"
48 second film clip, black & white/sound. From title frame: "Gruening Collection, 1961-1964". Film shows Ernest Gruening telling Philleo Nash that the problems of Alaskan Natives differ according to geographic location.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of two steamboats, one larger than the other. Narrative in photo album reads: "Large and small steamboats on the Yukon River. Some used oil for fuel, while others used cord wood cut by natives on contract to the...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Aug 30 - Indian cache of Toklat natives 5 miles below camp". Photograph shows a cache built amongst trees.
Title from photograph UAF-2009-123-566, current caption reads: "Oct 31 - Same". Photograph shows two Alaska Natives in a camp. A few structures can be seen, along with two totem poles, and smoke in the background. This may be a seasonal fish...
"Ott and Scheele owned the Northern Commercial Co. store at Eagle, Alaska. Having purchased it when the Northern Commercial Co. discontinued their Eagle Trading Co store at the left of the picture, he dealt mostly with the natives. The building at...