Signal Corps photo number SC 140008. Verso: Col. William O. Eareckson of the 11th Provisional Bombing Command, who received the Distinguished Service Cross, is writing a message on a bomb destined for the Japs on the Island of Kiska. Umnak...
Signal Corps photo number SC 140127. Verso: Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
With the playing of taps, a soldier is laid to rest atop a hill in Boot Hill Cemetery. Full military funerals are given soldiers who have died out here. There are seven...
Title taken from caption. A surveyor working for the U.S. government working on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title from verso. Photograph of a volcano erupting. Verso reads: "Umnak -- Shooting hot volcanic ash bombs high into the air, a long-dormant crater nearby Mount Tulik gave soldiers at this Aleutian base some anxious moments this summer. ...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "'Nigger head and the Spencer in the distance." The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) sits in Nikolski Bay to the right of the geographical feature now known as High Hill on...
Title taken from caption. Nikolski. May used Umnak and Nikolski interchangeably but the diary does not indicate that the expedition visited Umnak village and the church in the far left of the photograph is the church in Nikolski. Photograph taken...
Title taken from caption. View of two of the expedition members hiking on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Bringing planks of wood onto Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Mt. Vsevidof from Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Dig site outside of Nikolski on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Caption reads: "'Nigger Head and Vsevidof from across the entrance to the harbor." The hill to the left in front of the volcano is the geographical feature now known as High Hill on Umnak Island along Nikolski Bay. Photograph taken during the 1938...
Title taken from caption. View of men with horses herding ship on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption.View of items excavated on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Image of an item removed from a dig site on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Expedition members dig at the Umnak site. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of stratification at the dig site on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.