(4:46 min.) (06 of 24) 06 Other tasks Besides doing the cooking and cleaning, the steward was baker, butcher, nurse, waiter, and, on some trips, musician. Cargo handling included shipping the dead; some wouldn't touch the coffins. Was...
(4:48 min.) (09 of 24) 09 Food and health on-board the ship Beef served frequently and caused complaints. Sometimes it was the waiter's fault, sometimes it was the traveler's fault, and sometimes it was the sea. The nurse had to help lots...
56 second film clip, black & white/silent, of activities at the hospital in Palmer, Alaska. Scenes on the film clip include medical professionals seeing patients and setting the arm of a small girl, a patient ward, a nurse holding two infants...
75 second film clip, black & white/silent of medical professionals using an x-ray, apparently photographing the leg of a small child. A nurse is working with an autoclave.
"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
A girl sticks out her tongue while a Red Cross nurse appears to look at her throat. Behind them, others have thermometers in their mouths. Notes with photo read: "Citizens numbering about 115 of Valdez were evacuated to Fairbanks, via 3 Alaska...
A group of nurses is marching in formation down a dirt road past officers on a reviewing stand, while the nurse leading the unit salutes. They are taking part in a unit dress parade at the 179th Station Hospital, Adak, Alaska, August 1943 - October...
Accompanying notes: Left to right: D. Henry W.(?) Greist; Jas. A. Nichols, School & Reindeer Supt. and baby; Miss Gussie [Agusta (sic)] Mueller [Miller?], Hosp. nurse (R.N.); David Greist, Mollie W. Greist, R.N., Miss Florence C. Dakin, R.N., Hosp....
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Front of the Palace Theatre, part of the Hellenthal -- First National Bank building; posters on display include several for the movie "War Nurse;" there is also a poster for "Inspiration," a Garbo film; and a poster for "The Snappy Caballero"