A group of Inupiaq, mostly children, are sitting in the grass as a walrus skin is stretched and dried. Visible in the background are several buildings and a semi-subterranean sod house (far left on horizon). On the right side of the photo are two...
"Bone diggers from U. of Alaska dug this up. It is part of an eskimos village 2000 years old. (Point Hope)." Wood and bone from an excavation unit at the prehistoric village, Point Hope, Alaska.
Title from verso. Verso reads: "2 col. x 24 PICA. p. 2 - OIL. "Capt. Wm. Fisken." 55." Verso stamped "Alyeska Pipeline. 5312. Steve McCutcheon" and stamped with the date Jan 16, 1975. Image shows a man standing at a map of Prince William...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts meeting with a U.S. Army officer on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably either a mother or troop leader, stands behind each...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image has Fairbanks Daily News Miner property stamp and news clipping on verso. News clipping on verso reads: "TOYS FOR BARROW CHILDREN - Six members of Brownie Troop 102, Island Homes show some of the stuffed...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Photograph shows nine sled dogs relaxing in the snow while hooked up to their sled harnesses. Some barrels, other equipment, and a building are in the distance.
Photograph shows nine sled dogs in various states of relaxation on snow, all are wearing harnesses and lines. Some buildings, barrels and other various objects are visible in the background.
Relief shown by shading and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Cover title: Map of the Kotzebue Sound country, Alaska, the new gold fields, including the basins of the Kobuk or Putnam, Selawik and other rivers explored by the U.S. Naval...
Includes notes on geology and seal populations. Relief shown by shading and hachures. "Surveyed & drawn July 1872, by Henry W. Elliott." Manuscript map; hand colored.
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "Drawn by G. Noetzel. Engraved by W.P. Sefton and J.A. Waddey." "Issued with H.O. Chart No. 68 as a supplement." "No. 1189." "Printed July, 1890." Annotated.
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the Yukon River. Narrative in the photo album reads: "At the right is the view as seen from our front porch. The Yukon is practically a mile wide at this point. There was a steep bank between us and the...
Additional text on photo reads: "A. E. C. G560. P. S. Hunt." Text on album page reads: "Picture of the town of Wasilla, Mile 159 on the Government Railroad, taken on the day of the first sale of lots, June 20,...
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...
The Edward L. Creamer Papers consist of one memoir titled "A Dogface in Alaska: Surveying and Surviving," with digital print copies of 190 photographs. The memoir details Creamer’s experiences as topographic computer with U. S. Army’s 551st...
Title from caption. Photograph of a fish wheel near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish, specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish wheels, two of which...