Title from indexer. Photograph shows writing on the side of the airplane the "Winnie Mae". The writing is a list of locations. It reads: "New York U.S.A., Harbor Grace N.F., Chester England, Hanover Germany, Berlin Germany, Moscow Russia, Novo...
Cyanotype photograph of Captain David Legge Brainard (left), 14th U.S. Infantry and leader of the Alaska Relief Expedition, and Captain George Ruehlen at Dyea in 1898. The two men stand in front of a tent with boxes stacked to the right. Both have...
Title taken from verso. Workmen digging in front of one of three large buildings. Two women and a child are crossing the open area between buildings. Verso: John Beaver Mertie.
Title from sleeve. Wooden structure with sign reading 'Gambell Presbyterian Mission.' Windows and a chimney are visible along the side of the building. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title taken from image. Buildings labeled in image: Boys' home, girls' home, museum, church, library, carpenter & cooper shop, hospital. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
MOREHOUSE-GERHAM COMPANY
14 East 41st Street, New York 17, N. Y.
29 East Madison Street, Chicago 2, Ill.
261 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco 2, Calif.
Raising the building up onto skids. Showing Eskimos at work; building materials; oil drums. Woman in doorway (Mrs. Spriggs?) and woman and child in right corner of building; man with pipe, left hand corner.
Flagpole is on left end of the building. Summer view. Butter came in barrels like that at corner of building. Locals used them for making misigaaq (seal oil) and mikigaq (fermented whale meat and blubber).
L. to r.: Mrs. Spriggs, Harold Spriggs, Reverend Samuel Spriggs. Spriggs was the Presbyterian minister at Barrow, AK 1900. Image: "Yours sincerely, S.R. Spriggs and family."