"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 verso. Photograph of troops U. S. Army troops landing on the beach of one of the Aleutian Islands. Verso reads: United States Army Troops with Navy support have occupied the Andreanof Island Group in the Aleutians, only 125...
2 min, 38 sec film clip, color/silent. Men walk around Weeks Field and the hangars, talk with one another, take photographs, apparently consult maps or other papers, and prepare to see Jimmie Mattern pilot "The Texan" away.
31 second, color/silent, film clip of processing and preserving salmon along the Yukon River. Women, using ulus and knives, are cutting fish for drying. A man, using what appears to be a spear, tosses fish into a hole, probably to prepare...
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from caption. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...
Title taken from caption. "Mile post 168. north Ft. St. John." Cataloguer's note: A man is standing leaning on a sign post that reads: "Suicide Hill, 500 ft ahead, Prepare to meet thy God."
Verso: Senator E. L. "Bob" Bartlett, (center) Senior Senator from Alaska, observes "Delta" Company, 1st Battle Group, 35 Inf, (Cacti) 25th Inf Division, as they prepare to move out on alert, in Quad B, Schofield Barracks, during the Senator's visit.
Title taken from caption. "Harry Tyler, a bit player from Hollywood, touring the Aleutian[s] with the Allen Jenkins USO show, gave a few time-proven tips to amateurs Pvt. Ruth Faulkner, St. Louis, Mo.; Pvt. Bette Esgro, Denver Dol.; and Pvt....
Title from album caption. Starting line of a sled dog race, at Chena River under Cushman Street Bridge, Fairbanks. Spectators stand by Samson Hardware while people prepare the dog team. A truck is on the bridge.
Title taken from caption. View of two boats and supplies for National Geographic expedition, as expedition members prepare to relay their supplies up the rapids at Naknek Lake, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition at...
View of the starting line as the runners prepare for the Mt. Marathon race in Seward, Alaska. From front: "1963 - Seward July 4". Photo taken July 4, 1963. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
View of the starting line as the runners prepare for the Mt. Marathon race in Seward, Alaska. From front: "1964 Jul[y] 4". Photo taken July 4, 1964. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
View of the starting line as the runners prepare for the Mount Marathon race in Seward, Alaska. From front: "1963-Seward". Photo taken July 4, 1963. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
View of the starting line as the runners prepare for the Mount Marathon race in Seward, Alaska. From front: "1963. Seward. Mt. Marathon". Photo taken July 4, 1963. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
View of the starting line as the runners prepare for the Mount Marathon race in Seward, Alaska. From front: "1963 Mt. Marathon. Seward". Photo taken in July 4, 1963. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".