Title from accompanying notes. An ice-axe at the top of Mount Miyazaki, to which has been attached two flags (USA and Japan) and a placard.The names read: Peter E. Haase, Noburu Morikawa; Ryu Nakajima; Hiromasa Haneda. The sign has been dated...
"Thompson with oar, Larson rowing, Norwood taking it easy. A memorable trip, in a small boat, following the ice breakup on the Yukon River. Lake LaBarge was still frozen we pulled the boat on a crude sled over the ice. We were commanded by the...
Editorial cartoon commenting on the problems with gaining statehood for Alaska in the 1920's. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska .22".]
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
Photograph with an attached caption that reads: Supreme Court and Superior Court Justices - First Court System of the State of Alaska -- Seated, L. to R.: Walter Hodge; Buell A. Nesbitt; and John H. Dimond. Standing, l. to r. -- Walter E. Walsh;...
"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and...
Title taken from verso and cataloger's notes. Verso reads: "As We Began. 1950 (May)." Image shows three men standing outside a quonset hut surrounded by black spruce trees. One man appears to be jacking up the structure. Parked...
"This is number 12 that we're working on. Yea, that shows the Pan-American 707 approaching the terminal area after making the first landing out there, and we had half the town out there to celebrate a jet into Juneau."
"This is number 12 that we're working on. Yea, that shows the Pan-American 707 approaching the terminal area after making the first landing out there, and we had half the town out there to celebrate a jet into Juneau."
"This is number 12 that we're working on. Yea, that shows the Pan-American 707 approaching the terminal area after making the first landing out there, and we had half the town out there to celebrate a jet into Juneau."
"And the last one here, number 15. Yea that was that borrowed DC-3, it was destined for Pan American's China facility, China National Airline, but we had use of it to operate a few trips over through British Columbia to prove it was...
"Picture number 3. That's Pan Am's winter uniform up there. We had a seal skin cap and regular navy overcoat and everything. Of course when it got cold we had parkas and everything to go over it."