Note on slide reads "Kasigluk feast." Group of women and children seated in a room. A young female stands by a table where a woman and child sit, and looks back on the group of women and children seated on the...
Caption: Reindeer shed their horns every year. The male shed six weeks earlier than the female, so that during the fawn season the mother may protect the young.
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "1-. 30." Image shows four female dancers dressed in matching sleeveless tops and dungarees performing a dance routine to musical accompaniment. Behind them one musician plays a trumpet and another plays an...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "1-. 30." Image shows a man and a woman performing a dance routine to musical accompaniment. The man is dressed in a suit and the woman in a dancing costume. Behind them a male musician holds a trumpet and a...
Title from note on verso: "Eskimo women R. R. work crew of Cantwell section won awards for best maintained section." In an e-mail dated 22 May 2013, Leann Wagerle mentions that these women are Athabascan, not Eskimo. Crediting her mother,...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of farm equipment on an experimental farm in Rampart, Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat which would ripen hard enough to...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Feb 11 - Female lynx in trap at Forks". Photograph shows rocky mountain slopes and peaks with snow on them.
Title from caption in album: "May 24 - Large female lynx looking up Stony Fork". Photograph shows a dead lynx with mountains in the background. From album #7, page 71 verso, bottom right.
Full note reads: "1949 04 Nora Black in front of her sod house @ Shungnak, AK. This house was at the south end of the village and the only one of its kind. I think she was the oldest female in the village."
Title by cataloguer. A large bear is seen while eating fish. The brown bear also known as the grizzly usually has dark brown hair, varying from light creamy to black. Their distinguishing feature is distinctive hump on the ir shoulders, a...
Title by cataloguer. The brown bear also known as the grizzly usually has dark brown hair, varying from light creamy to black. Their distinguishing feature is the hump on their shoulders, a slight "dished" profile to the face and long claws on...
Title by cataloguer. A view of seal rookery. The male seal is called "a bull", the female "a cow", and the babies "pups" or "whelps". Notice a seal pup in the center of the photograph, laying on its belly directly infront of a large rock.
Title by cataloguer. A view of fur seals at the sea. Male Fur Seal is approximately seven feet long and weights about six hundred pounds. The female on average is five feet and weighs about three hundred pounds. A pup weighs ten pounds at...
Title taken from caption. "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."
World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...
Title supplied by cataloger. The person second from left appears to be a female. There are icicles hanging from the building and in one window a logo with what appears to be a bird between two capital A's. Some boxes sit on the ground behind...