Title taken from verso. View of 13th Regional Corporation crabbing boat "Alaska Trader" bringing crab to seafood processing ship "Alindeska Sea" at Cold Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "Alaska Trader. 13th Regional Corporation." Printing on boat...
Title taken from verso. Fur trader and buyer Ed Shepherd wearing fur parka, with polar bear skin rolled and tied after purchase during trip to Kivalina, Alaska. Also from verso: "Arctic trip w[ith] Ed Shephard [sic]." March-April 1958....
Aerial of the "Biehl Trader" with containment boom stretched in the water during boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor.
Title taken from verso. View of men walking from airplane to dogsled on trip with fur trader Ed Shepherd (possibly at right, wearing parka) in Northern Alaska. March-April 1958. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 7 1/8".
Eskimo children love to sing - organist is half breed eskimo daughter of trader Pete Curran. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 739. Organist is Ruth Curran Sellers. Singer wearing bracelet is Maggie...
Cache of baleen, man (trader?) standing. Probably autumn, because the water is shallow, and there is no ice. In the spring, the whale would be pulled up by its tail, and in the fall it would be pulled up by its head.
Title taken from caption. "Beaver and Yukon Flats Men - L to R, Frank Yasuda, Trader and Founder of Beaver, Bob Myers, E.H. Hagen, Foster Sisson, Olaf Solvik and Dick Morris."
Caribou fur and wolf mukluk and leggings. Length 89 cm., Soles and sides of boot are composed of caribou with fur towards the inside. Lower legs are caribou with fur towards the outside. Upper legs and leggings are wolf with fur towards the...
Title from sleeve. Woman who cooked for fur trader Ed Shepherd sits at the kitchen table on a chair covered with a fur. The kitchen is visible behind her. Photographer's number: 490. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Fur trader Ed Shepherd (left background) and Nathan Noongwook (right background) stand next to sled holding Adventurers Club of New York flag, as last U.S. mail run via dogsled in Alaska prepares to go from Gambell to Savoonga on Saint Lawrence...
Title from sleeve. Fur trader Edward R. Shepherd with his wife 'Dick', who sits on the hood of a Snow-Trac snowmachine at the Gambell airport. Photographer's number: 11216. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title taken from verso. Woman examines fur and skin moccasins on bench while mukluks hang from above at Nome Skin Sewers Association display in Nome, Alaska. Photo taken during trip with fur trader Ed Shepherd. Also from verso: "Arctic trip w[ith]...
Extreme closeup aerial of the "Biehl Trader" and deck hands deploying boom during boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor,