The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Note on slide reads "Kasigluk; Mrs. Ivan Wassili." Woman, identified as Mrs. Ivan Wassili, holds an infant's arm while appearing to administer a shot. The infant is held by a woman.
"Near Lakeview, Swentna [Skwentna]." Irving Reed, George W. Glass, and his seventeen year old son Ophir, undertook a trip on the Iditarod Trail in late March 1920. Reed wrote a magazine article, "Rainy Pass by dog team,"...
“Anchorage – Army Private Ralph T. Frye, Hamlet, N.C., briefs Red Cross disaster nursing staff on how to get to isolated Alaskan communities hard hit by Good Friday’s earthquake and tidal waves. Left...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "I learned to go about in these canoes very well, altho not many white men care to use them. One sits on the bottom, or doubled-up on the knees as...
Ms. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Mounted on cloth; edges bound with gilded paper. "From a vast choice…collected with great care and expenses by Samuel Engel." "Geographically projected by Rodolph de Vall-Travers."
(4:48 min.) (09 of 24) 09 Food and health on-board the ship Beef served frequently and caused complaints. Sometimes it was the waiter's fault, sometimes it was the traveler's fault, and sometimes it was the sea. The nurse had to help lots...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
The following is the text on...
75 second film clip, black & white/silent of medical professionals using an x-ray, apparently photographing the leg of a small child. A nurse is working with an autoclave.
56 second film clip, black & white/silent, of activities at the hospital in Palmer, Alaska. Scenes on the film clip include medical professionals seeing patients and setting the arm of a small girl, a patient ward, a nurse holding two infants...
41 second film clip, black & white/silent of disaster relief including children being given shots, and lying on sleeping bags and of people standing in line and being served food.
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau.
In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on...
Title taken from caption. Esther Schaubel, whose rounds brought her to Point Hope once or twice a year, was a splendid source of Arctic Coast gossip, delivered along with immunizations, etc.
A girl sticks out her tongue while a Red Cross nurse appears to look at her throat. Behind them, others have thermometers in their mouths. Notes with photo read: "Citizens numbering about 115 of Valdez were evacuated to Fairbanks, via 3 Alaska...