Title and spelling taken from caption. View of Alan May sitting near a whale vertebrae, and eating a sandwich. There are shovels propped up next to him. From May's journal, dated July 11th: "Turned out the grandaddy [sic] of all whale vertabrae...
View of men cutting up whale at whaling station, Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Whale. Akutan, Alaska. Whaling station in Aleutian Islands." n.d. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Title taken from front. View of Eskimo man harpooning a bowhead whale in Northern Alaska. 1920's? Photographer: Thomas. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3" x 4 3/4".
Title taken from information with photo. View of men pulling whale onto ice after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 20-29, 1966. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
Title taken from information with photo. View of men pulling whale onto ice after whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 20-29, 1966. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
Title taken from information with photo. View of hunters butchering whale on ice from umiak after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 20-29, 1966. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x...
Title taken from image. A workman walks on the slain whale, as others look on. A chain is attached to the whale's tail. In the background are the buildings, cables, and equipment of the whaling station.
Title taken from album caption. Blurred view of a group of Eskimo people holding baleen and standing next to a whale carcass. Large tackle in the foreground.