Pamela F. Lekanof was working out of the Asbestos Workers Local # 97 hall, Anchorage, Alaska. Her employer was a subcontractor, Brand Insulation. She worked out of the Asbestos Workers hall for over three years, first as a trainee and later an...
Joanne Gottbreht was working out of the Asbestos Workers Local # 97 hall, Anchorage, Alaska. Her employer was a subcontractor, Brand Insulation. Information courtesy of Pamela F. (Lekanof) Horine.
The people walking are Martin and Lillian Johnson. The children on bikes are Cheryl Lillian Nelson and Michele Nelson.
Identification courtesy of Gerry Nelson.
Title taken from source. This is John B. Fawcett (Dzeexwaa, Tlaak'wách) of the Wooshkeetaan Clan. Clan and personal identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs.
Title from accompanying materials. Man on steps of house which has panel with Tlingit designs running up center of house. Taax’ Hít (Snail House), Hoonah. Identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs.
Formal portrait of Charlie Jones, also known as Chief Shakes VII, wearing the Killer Whale Flotilla Robe. Title and description courtesy of Alaska State Museum.
Title taken from image. [Herman and Tebessa Gene holding Arnold and Floyd outside of a canvas tent. Identifications courtesy of Roy David during the AFN conference, Oct. 2005, Fairbanks, AK.]
Title taken from verso. Two men operating a stationary single bladed power saw from the deck of a floating dock. A small building is on the far shore. Cord wood floats in the water, cabled together. View across the water from the deck of a...
Photograph by Alphonse Kemmerich, in the early 1930's. The photo shows the staff housing (left) and fish hatchery building (on right) at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries fish hatchery on Lake McDonald, near Yes Bay, Alaska. The hatchery was always...
Image: Ka-Sh-Ak, the Monkeyman. Skan-Doo [Skundoo], notorious old medicene [medicine] man. Ind-A-Yanek (Swatka), the famous Indian guide. Three brothers, old head-men of the Kak-Von-Tons [Kaagwaantaan] of the Chilkat tribe. Copyright 1907....
The 72-foot steamer Flosie was built at Seattle in 1898 for the Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company of Juneau which operated passenger ferries between Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell, and other points on Gastineau Channel. The Flosie was built...
These are the Chilkat Dancers from Haines or Port Chilkoot as it was called at the time. The man using the drum on the far left is Carl Heinmiller. Identification courtesy of Blythe Carter, Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center.
Jack Watson was Ahtna Athabascan from Copper Center, Alaska. Mary James was an Auk Kwáan Tlingit from the L'eeneidí (Raven/Dog Salmon) Clan and the Yaxte hít (Big Dipper House). She was born in 1835, and died on September 29, 1922 at age 87....
Verso: This tree stump at Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska is all that remains of what must have been a mammoth tree that was sheared off at the onset of the last ice age. As the glacier receded the stump appeared as a reminder of the dramatic...
Priest Ioann Orlov, left with bride and groom -- Olga Orlov and Nikolai Kozlov -- center, front. [The wedding in 1912 of Olga Orlov and Nicolai Kozlov. Olga was the daughter of Reverend John Orlov, far left. . . Olga's sister Alexandra is wearing...
[Archimandrite Theodosius performing (also termed "serving" in Eastern Orthodox tradition) a wedding. Description courtesy of Father Michael Spainhoward, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Juneau, AK.]
Blanche Louise Preston McSmith represented Anchorage in the House of Representatives during the second session of the First Alaska Legislature in 1960. Mrs. McSmith was appointed by then-Governor William Egan in January of 1960 to fill out the...