Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
277 second film clip, black & white and color/silent of football in Fairbanks during the 1940's-1950's. Two sections one shot in winter with lots of snow on the field and the second shot durng the fall of the year.
Title by indexer, taken from verso. Verso reads: "Bonfire, fall 1928, left Marion Boswell, right Olga Strandberg." Image shows two young women standing by piles of kindling that are arranged in a teepee shape for burning. Behind the women...
Title from verso. Image shows a group of young men building a tall bonfire. Several men are shown climbing or standing on the bonfire structure. Two men and a woman are shown standing and talking on the left side of the image. Two of them...
Title from verso. Image shows a group of young men building a tall bonfire. Several men are climbing or standing on the bonfire structure. Wooden crates and wood debris are shown at the base of the large bonfire structure. Activity is...
Title from verso. Image shows a group of young men standing outside beside small burn piles. The burn piles are shaped like small teepees. A wagon wheel cart is shown to the right of the men and several trees are visible behind them. Part of...
Title from verso. Verso also stamped with the name, "Harrie L. Hughes, Fairbanks, Alaska." Image shows a man driving a large tractor attached to a harvesting and threshing machine. A dump truck is adjacent to the tractor to receive the...
Title taken from verso. Full title on verso reads, "First silo in Fairbanks district perhaps in all Alaska, built by J. F. Hielscher, fall of 1905. Lumber cut and matched by Noyes' Mill = Tanana Lumber Co. Iron bands by Barrack Blacksmith...
Title from caption. Photo also bears the inscription "Goetzman." Image shows people standing on a riverbank. Buildings can be seen higher up the bank on the left side of the image. Two steamers with smokestacks and two barges can be...
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...
Title by indexer. Image shows man-made structures to the left of a waterfall. A power pole is visible above the fall on the right side of the image. Photo attributed to George Lockyear by collection donor. George Lockyear served in...
Title by indexer. Image shows man in a topcoat and hat standing on a large boulder at the top of a waterfall. Photo is taken from below, near the bottom of the fall. Large spruce trees are visible beside the fall. Location in unknown. ...
See the numbers on the photo: 1. Tishu (Stokes) Ulen; 2. Nellie McNeal "Little Nellie ... she stayed for the summer with us." 3. Jay ?; 4. Madame Melbourne; 5. Mrs. Brown; 6....
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...