Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf with ships tied along it; livestock in pens and bales of hay can be seen at the far right. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf before it was extended & completed, during these years from the period...
Title and description taken from caption. "Ballaine's farm buildings are on the right and directly across the road from Ballaine's lake that was his source for water".
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from caption. Esther Schaubel, whose rounds brought her to Point Hope once or twice a year, was a splendid source of Arctic Coast gossip, delivered along with immunizations, etc.
Album caption: The source of the stream shown in the two preceding pictures. This is a mountain of clear crystal ice, covered with a two or three foot layer of crushed rock and gravel, making what is called a "dirty" glazier. The great volume of...
Title taken from text. Album caption: An unsuccessful attempt to get a view of the "Glory Hole", a crater about 500 feet in depth, six or eight miles below McCallum. The line runs down into this hole and is a source of frequent interruption. ...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from label on matting. View of men working on ship heading to Kake, Alaska through the Inside Passage. Also from label: "It's full steam ahead on the Inside Passage, enroute to Kake, Alaska, for a shipment of canned salmon. The...
Caption: "The reindeer is a source of food and clothing for the Eskimo. It is also used for hauling sled, something like a horse. But it has to be broken to the harness before it will haul a sled."
Title taken from source. This is John B. Fawcett (Dzeexwaa, Tlaak'wách) of the Wooshkeetaan Clan. Clan and personal identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs.
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867. Ratified by the United States May 28, 1867; Exchanged June 20, 1867;...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...