(6:26 min.) (13 of 20) Train/ship and labor issues--train/ship needed to cut cost--merchants advertised in Anchorage based on what was in the shipment--guaranteed delivery dates (kinda)--railbelt--Anchorage origins--Distribution problems for...
(6:33 min.) (05 of 12) Building bases and prep for Attu 30,000 men working total--civilian contractors did lots of work--DeLong--General Tally--Cold Bay task force to retake Attu--General Buckner--Alaska scouts--12,000 men in first two...
Based upon information from Jim Geraghty Louis Lund and passengers ride in wagon belonging to Tom Knudson, pulled by horses named Prince and Bill; wagon faces the airport area in the jökulhlaup channel
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...
Child's diaper made from spotted sealskin fur and edged with caribou fawn skin with ties of spotted seal ties. Inside the diaper is sphagnum moss. Sewn with sinew. Measures 25 x 19.5 x 9 cm.
Cyanotype portrait of an unidentified man and Alaska Native woman,and three children sitting on a bench draped with animal hides and skins in the village of Knik on Knik Arm. The man has a mustache, and the women and two younger children have...
Description: moose hide; smoked; beads; leather; string; sinew; thread; sewn; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of round-toed moccasins with large vamp and high ankle flaps, made of smoked moose hide and decorated with spot stitch...
Donor made parka from materials she obtained and processed, with the exception of the domestic calf used to make the geometric designs around hem. Caribou, wolf, wolverine and with wolverine strips front and back. Hood of calf heads. Very well...
Engraved map of Russia, with information based on Russian maps. Double sheet map (glued together). Half circle title top center. Cutaways in bottom corners, one showing scales, one labeled "Observation," acknowledging what maps the information...
Full title: The Aleut language, the elements of Aleut grammar with a dictionary in two parts containing basic vocabularies of Aleut and English, by Richard Henry Geoghegan; edited by Fredericka I. Martin.
Group photo of 179th Station Hospital personnel based at the Adak Army Air Field in the Aleutians, Alaska from 1943-1945. Original photograph size: 8 x 10 inch.
Hand colored. Latin and English with text in French on verso. Includes decorative cartouche, small illustrations of ships throughout, and coat of arms and dedication to Guilielmo Backer de Corneliis. From the Blaeus' Theatrum orbis terrarum,...