Photograph of the Unalaska Russian Orthodox Church and the Unalaska Custom House. Two stone grave markers are visible in the foreground of the church along with several large wooden ones.
View of the Kodiak waterfront in the late 19th century. Three of the buildings have been identified as: a warehouse, behind the large sailing vessel with its sails furled; the Custom House, above the warehouse between the far right masts; and the...
Billy Bergman, Edward Bergman (in front of Billy), Ceza Bergman holding Louie, Old Chief Moses, Henry Moses, and Lucy Moses. Billy and Ceza were Johnson's real parents, but...
"Ott and Scheele owned the Northern Commercial Co. store at Eagle, Alaska. Having purchased it when the Northern Commercial Co. discontinued their Eagle Trading Co store at the left of the picture, he dealt mostly with the natives. The building at...
"The river steamer Yukon, with barge, bringing supplies for Ott and Scheel at Eagle, Alaska. June 4th 1928. You can be sure all the residents able to walk were down there to welcome her. The huge rock bluff called Chutatutla in the background." ...
Title from image. Photograph of the interior of St. Michael's Cathedral. Caption reads: "Portion of Interior of Russian Church at Sitka Alaska - note the beautifull gold & silver work round the alter. The congregation there when I...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: This is a view of a log cabin which is presumably a customs' office. What is striking about this picture is the hill behind the cabin. There are numerous tree stumps through out and across the hill....
Title taken from caption on postcard. "Portland, Oregon. U.S. Custom House." The postmark on this color postcard reads Fairbanks, Alaska Sep 18, 3 - PM, 1909.
View of a group of women standing next to a fire department car (ambulance?) in Anchorage, Alaska. Christine McClain is the third woman from the right of the photo. The women are holding small cans that read "Give American Cancer Society" and bags...
View of (left to right) customs house, castle, and barracks in Sitka, Alaska. From front of image: "Office of Fred W. Fickett," "Valuable picture," and "Custom house - castle or U.S. Signal Office - barracks in Sitka." Fickett's office was in the...
View of town of Sitka, Alaska, including Castle/United States Signal Office (tallest building in center) and Customs House and Army barracks (at right). From border of photo: "Custom House. U.S. Signal Office." 1882-1885.
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Seated: J. H. Kinkead, Governor of Alaska. Standing (l. to r.): Edwin W. Haskett, District Attorney of Iowa; Munson C. Hillyer, U.S. Marshall of Nevada; Ward McAllister, Jr., Judge of California; Andrew T. Lewis, Clerk of Court of Illinois....
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...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Title from image. Three women between totem poles on path in front of building. Verso: From a long distance the totem poles announced to the visitor that he was approaching the Alaskan Building. These totem poles, with the Alaskan Indians,...