Title from verso. Photograph of an American mop-up squad clearing a Japanese gun emplacement. Verso reads: "Moving forward cautiously, the American mop-up squad examines this Jap [ Japanese ] dougout [sic] with makeshift, tent-like...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing a Japanese gun emplacement. Verso reads: "Attu -- Guns in hand, a mop-up squad moves in to clean up this Jap [ Japanese ] gun emplacement on the west arm of Holtz Bay. The two Japs [...
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 notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "The Lower Icefall was Hell. Looked like God had picked up the whole glacier and tossed it into the air, letting pieces fall where they may. Going up was 2 hour trip; coming...
"HQ AAC -- TOSSED BY TIDAL WAVE -- A Seward, Alaska, police car lies amid the wreckage of the community, left there by tidal wave action which occurred shortly after the Good Friday earthquake, which severely damaged the...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Destroyed home in the Turnagain area Anch. [Anchorage] Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/27/64". Additional notes read: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Many of the homes in the...
Photograph shows a person flying in mid air. The blanket tossers are looking up, ready to catch the person being tossed. A large number of spectators line the roof of a nearby building and surround the blanket tossers on the ground. Some spectators...
Title taken from verso. View of blanket toss from above at Kotzebue, Alaska, with person being tossed in mid-air. 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
View of person being tossed into air during blanket toss on Nome, Alaska street, with spectators looking on. Businesses shown include: Larry Galvin Dodge Plymouth Sales Service and Nome Hardware. 1950's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original...
Title taken from verso. View of woman being tossed in the air during blanket toss in Kotzebue, Alaska, with spectators in foreground and buildings in background. Also from verso: "Kotzebue Friends Church. 4th of July." 1950's? Original photograph...
View of person being tossed in the air near United States flag flying from pole during blanket toss at Point Hope, Alaska, with whale bones standing in foreground and crowd looking on. From verso: "Nalakutuk." Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original...
View of woman being tossed into the air during blanket toss, possibly in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
View of woman being tossed into the air during blanket toss in Kotzebue, Alaska. From verso: "Kotzebue." 1970's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
Caption: "Each man that catches a whale [has] to give what they call a skin dance. A blanket of skins is stretched like in the picture and held by as many persons can get around it, then a person goes in and is tossed up in the air until he is...