Two minute, 4 second film clip, black & white/silent, of life in Anchorage, 1915-1917. Clip is in a film newsreel format and shows Anchorage street scenes, the 3 in 1 Laundry, a pie eating contest, some Anchorage houses, the Alaska Labor Union of...
One minute, 12 second, color/silent, film clip of the sternwheeler Casca operating on the Yukon River. Views include some interior shots of the ship and some nice views of the workings of the wheel.
08 Continue into Alaska (4:54 min.) (08 of 09)
Got some bad gas in Northway and had to drain the tanks. Finally made it into Nome, but it took two weeks. Joe Barber's plane was found a month later, and they found a trappers cabin with some...
Title taken from stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Cataloguer's note: A glimpse of life in the sub-arctic -- One of the many creative ways of using man's best friend. This photograph shows how dogs (that look like pets), were used as beasts of burden. The picture looks as if it came from the...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Some of the people at Tanana Crossing."
The men are identified in "Crow Is My Boss" by Kenny Thomas and Craig Mishler (Norman: Univ. of Okla. Press, 2005), p. 54. Top, L-R: Follet Isaac, Henry Luke,...
Title taken from note with photo. "Some citizans [citizens] of Valdez Ak., prior to being taken to Glennallen, following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64".
Title from accompanying material. Six Alaska Native men wearing parkas, mukluks, and other traditional clothing. In the foreground are some kind of bars or beams. Some burlap sacks are stacked in front of the men.
Title from caption. Caption reads: "The most northerly school house in the United States. Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska." The creator's mark reads "Nowell 29." Students and some adults are standing outside of a school house, some dressed in...
Title from accompanying notes. "6 April. Lois, Floyd, and some of our gear. The object in the immediate foreground is an igloo that Hat & I built to store food and gear." Two people under wing of green and white airplane, freight boxes, and...
Title from accompanying notes. Six men pose at mountain summit. They are equipped with snow goggles, knit gloves, mittens, down parkas, ice axes, and other climbing gear. One holds a pickaxe and Japanese-lettered flag. Some have frosted faces...