Photographs used by Western Airlines to promote travel to Alaska. Writing on plane: Western Air Express. NC 17469. Writing on building: Western Air Express. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego. Scenic... Cedar Breaks, Zion Ca....
Title taken from verso. Photograph of rails running along waterfront in front of wooden houses. Cedar canoes on snow covered beach. A woman stands looking down the track away from the camera.
Built in 1917, the Lighthouse Tender/Patrol Vessel CEDAR was acquired by the Navy in 1917 and returned to Lighthouse Service in July 1919; she was reclassified as USCGC CEDAR in 1939 and, during World War II, designated WAGL-207
View over the housetops, looking toward the school and shed up on hill; also shows retaining wall of cedar around play ground; according to the teacher, Tenakee "exists because of the mineral health springs"
Weaver works on a basket in her lap. Displayed are other baskets, a spruce root hat, and beaded fur moccasins. Verso: This art has now nearly disappeared. Spruce roots, grasses and twisted cedar bark were used, with split spruce roots making...
Three men, wearing ceremonial dress, on porch of house unofficially referred to as Tsaa yaa ayáanásnak keet hít (Killer Whale Chasing Seal House), the design painted by a Deisheetaan artist named Káatleindein; cedar canoe on beach in front of...
Displayed between the couple is a bentwood tray, carved from yew wood; the North Wind is represented by the applique figures on the blanket or robe Note: Photograph was published in Monuments in Cedar, by Edward Keithahn, page 94
Two girls pose outside behind six chests of the type brought to Alaska during the maritime fur trade of the early 19th century; picket fence and houses in background Note: Photograph was published in Monuments in Cedar, by Edward L. Keithahn,...
This Haida pole is originally from Sukkwan. The pole in currently on display in the atrium of the State Office Building in Juneau, and is in the collection of the Alaska State Museum (catalog number II-B-1632). This photo was used in Monuments in...
Description at top of image: "Cedar boxes made without nails or corner joints…these were enclosed or wrapped in cedar mats and contained the heads which were preserved with skin, etc. intact." On verso: "Found by [Myer] Hofstad on Zarembo...
Title taken from image. Haida woman sitting with cedar bark strip in mouth preparing for weaving; several woven baskets in foreground, c. 1897. Photographer's number 458.
Title from image caption Tlingit village or Fish Camp, possibly Wrangell; two Tlingit women and two children in front of a tent, along with building covered with lumber and cedar bark slabs; woman in foreground is weaving a cedar bark mat
Two men with a rowing dory in foreground. Cannery buildings on the far shore. The side paddle vessel Ancon is in the bay, with a cedar canoe at the left edge of the image.
Title taken from verso. Water view of Endicott Arm with buildings on the far shore. Three men and a woman in a cedar canoe. A rowing dory is tied up at a dock in foreground.