Title taken from caption. Nurse Smith, a.k.a. "Smitty", and Sidney Connor pose for a photograph in Unalaska. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph with two women in front of a tent near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
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. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
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.
Title taken from front. Group photo of participants at first board meeting of 13th Regional Corporation in Seattle, Washington. Also from front: "On steps of the Frye Hotel, Seattle, W[ashingto]n." From verso: "Top row left to right: Frank Price,...
Title taken from verso. View of 13th Regional Corporation fishing boat "Alaska Beauty" supplying crab to seafood processing ship "Alindeska Sea" at Cold Bay, Alaska. Printing on boat reads: "Alaska Beauty." 1980's? Photographer: Billy B. Johnson....
Title taken from verso. View of 13th Regional Corporation crabbing boat "Alaska Trader" bringing crab to seafood processing ship "Alindeska Sea" at Cold Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "Alaska Trader. 13th Regional Corporation." Printing on boat...
View of 13th Regional Corporation board meeting in Seattle, Washington. From verso: "Board meeting 1515 Dester Ave. Seattle, Wash. Left to right. Front row: Virginia Thomas, Ray Combs, John Bailey, Jim Price, Frank Price, Billy B. Johnson, Mike...
Title taken from donor's caption. "At Tonsina 90 miles from Valdez. The spot we selected for our camp was in a small grove of spruce trees at the head of a deep valley where two glaciers came down out of the towering mountains. We built a large...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...