View of a women holding a baby and children standing in front of a barabara in Point Hope, Alaska. From verso: "Pt. Hope." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of rocky shoreline. Cabin on piling built on top of the rocks. A woman and dog are seated on a rock with a boardwalk behind them. Lowell Point (?) in background. Original photograph size 3 1/4" x 5 1/4".
Title taken from verso. "1918. Wolf's Point and the Crag, in quiet weather." [The only Wolf and Crag in the same area are in the Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, but the exact place is uncertain.]
A movie camera on a tripod is set up on the ice in the foreground, while a whaling crew looks into the water at a whale carcass prior to hauling it out and butchering it. A small wooden whaling boat is visible in the water. Photograph taken during...
Title taken from label on matting. Three baskets woven from baleen, one with handle and two with lids, made in Point Barrow, Alaska, on display in Juneau. Photographer's number 8344. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/4"...
Title taken from label on matting. Basket and lid made from baleen at Point Barrow, Alaska, on display in Juneau. Photographer's number 8343. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/4" x 10".
Group of people standing near Wien Alaska Airlines airplane at Point Hope, Alaska. Photographer's number 38. 1960-1966? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Mar 11 - View north from point sheep landed - Forks". Photograph shows a tree and snow-covered mountain in the distance, two tree sit in the foreground.
Title from photograph UAF-2009-123-627, current caption in album is: "Mar 11 - Same". Photograph shows a rocky snow covered hillside with mountains in the distance.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...