Title taken from caption. "The entire group of contestants in the All-Alaska Talent Contest poses for a picture. Although the three WACs were part of the show, their efforts were noncompetitive. They were the first WACs to set foot on an...
View of the starting point of the 1966 Fur Rendezvous sled dog race on 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska. The highest banner reads: "Pepsi-Cola Scholarships at State Finals, Miss Alaska Pagent, West High Auditorium, February 25 - 8:00 PM, An Official...
View of man dancing on a platform in front of a group of seated drummers at the Eskimo Olympics in Fairbanks, Alaska. In the background is a stage with sound equipment and a large sign that reads: "Olympics". Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from verso. Close up photograph of two older Inupiat women eating muktuk. The woman on the left is in a fur trimmed parka. Verso: "Muktuk Eating Contest (Seal or whale blubber after a sort of pickling process - the pink is the blubber -...
Title from verso. Spectators watch several men on a stage drilling holes in a rock using hammers and hand held drills during a July 4th competition in Valdez, Alaska. July 4, 1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch.
Title taken from caption. View of three boys about to start a round of string chewing. Each player is given a string and instructed to hold the end of the string in his teeth with the string hanging down in front of him. At the signal, he must...
Title taken from caption. View of a group of boys and their supporters about to start a round of string chewing. Each player is given a string and instructed to hold the end of the string in his teeth with the string hanging down in front of him....
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. View of spectators watching contestant in flour packing contest during Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Businesses shown include Northern Commercial Company at left. 1967. Photographer: Whitehorse...
Title taken verso. View of men with beards, one dressed as policeman, at Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, with men without beards being "punished" by being put in stocks. Sign on building in background reads: "Headquarters...
Group photo of contestants for Chugiak Spring Festival queen contest in Chugiak, Alaska. May 24, 1954. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
Five young women in white aprons, along with their teacher, cook in the kitchen of Juneau High School; left to right, Wilhelymine Larsen, Irene Burke, Agnes Pademeister, Lillian Bayers, Elsie Baggan, and Emma Ueland, teacher.