Title from caption. Photograph of the sternwheeler 'Yukon' waiting for a load of fuel wood before continuing its journey. The launch Pelican is loaded on front of the sternwheeler. Narrative in photo album reads: "Our boat waiting for fuel....
Title from caption. Photograph shows an inventory of wood in a wood yard next to a few houses in Nenana, Alaska, on June 29th, 1917. Caption also reads: "No.46. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
Title from caption. Photograph shows the wood yard in Nenana, Alaska covered in snow, with downtown Nenana in the background. Caption also reads: "No. 130, A. J. Johnson, Official Photographer A.E.C."
Title taken from front. Stacks of wood in wood yard at Nenana, Alaska, with buildings in background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 46. June 29, 1917. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4 3/4" x 6...
Title taken from front. View of wood yard at Nenana, Alaska, with buildings in background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 130. April 1, 1918. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 7 5/8" x 9 5/8".
A village of wooden buildings is on a beachfront. In the foreground on the gravel beach are a few kayaks and a canoe. Two barely visible totem poles suggest this is Southeast Alaska. A steamboat, which can be seen in the...
The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
This round wood mask (16 x 13 x 5 cm) has arched eyebrows stained darker than the rest of the wood. The left eyebrow curves down to become the nose, which is triangular, with two round nostrils, and slightly flaring nostril arches. The face is...
A leaf shaped, wooden mask (28 x 17 x 6.5 cm), with distinctive horizontal ridges as forehead/top of head and chin, and three concentric circular ridges ringing central facial features. Eyes are leaf-shaped slits below one of the ridges, slightly...
Male mask; carved wooden face. Snow goggles of wood with faint pink wash are attached; fur mustache and beard; wolf fur ruff; furs are nailed to wood; sinew cord on back for hanging; 16" long. Created in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.
Wood, male; trimmed with wolf ruff; dark fur eyebrows; mustache and beard of brown and white fur; mouth, eyes, nostrils open, Unpainted, 9" long, "Kakeina" written in pencil on back; string lopped through nostrils for hanging. Mask was created in...
Bean, Augustus (maker). This is an open, shallow wooden dish with two frogs (as seen from above) on the bottom of bowl. Ten pieces of bone or ivory are inset around the top rim; round white seed beads are inset around the inner second rim, which...
Bean, Augustus (maker). This is an open, shallow wooden dish with two frogs (as seen from above) on the bottom of bowl. Ten pieces of bone or ivory are inset around the top rim; round white seed beads are inset around the inner second rim, which...
Title taken from caption. This view as the inscription indicates is the back entrance of the Wood Center. The large terrace is seen here to the left and the Gruening Building is visible further in the distance.
Title taken from caption. A view of the Wood Center from the Rasmuson Library. On the left hand corner the Gruening Building is partially visible and on the right is Constitutional Hall and the post office.
Title taken from caption. A view of the information center at Wood Center. According to the sign posted on the wall, Daily News Miner, Anchorage Daily News, and Anchorage Times all sold for 15 cents, and the Wall Street Journal sold for 40...
There are some wood buildings, possibly a small village, on a gravel shore with a couple totem poles. A canoe is floating on the water. The background is heavily forested.
Title taken from caption. View of wireless radio station on Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedtion on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Title taken from caption. View of path and trees along shore of Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska, with buildings in background. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915....