Title taken from caption. View of a totem extending from a grave house in Shakan, Alaska. Photograph taken between 1890 and 1910. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Title taken from caption. View of a totem used to mark a native grave site near the village of Old Kasaan, Alaska. Photograph taken between 1890 and 1910. Original photograph size: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from caption. View of a live moose that is being hoisted from an open grave. The men are using ropes, tarps and a tow truck to remove the moose. The rescue mission was a success. Based on other photographs in the series it is most...
Title taken from caption. View of Russian Orthodox grave at Kanakanak, Alaska. Also from caption: "Kanakanak, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Title taken from caption. View of open grave in cemetery at Bethel, Alaska. Also from caption: "Bethel, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Crosses and Alaska Native grave houses marking grave sites in a cemetery, Galena, Alaska. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". Location identified as Galena by Paul Apfelbeck.
Title taken from caption. View of a grave near a Bristol Bay cannery. Cross reads: "In memory of Peter Lee. Born Sep. 30 1888, drowned July 24, 1926. Native of Norway. Rest in peace."
Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...
Title taken from caption. Alan May corrects this elsewhere in his diary text: not Bering's grave but a monument erected to him 150 years after his death. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Title taken from caption. View of the cross makring Vitus Bering's grave on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from verso. View of Native grave along Richardson Trail, Alaska. Photographer's number 260. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 3 7/8" x 5".
Title taken from verso. Man stands near grave of Salishan (Siwash) chief at Eklutna, Alaska. Photographer's number 51. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Title taken from front. View of tombstone and grave of Frank H. Reid in cemetery at Skagway, Alaska. Photographer's number 59. 1899? Photographer: possibly Case & Draper? Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 4 3/8".
Title taken from verso. View of marker for grave on cliff overlooking Bering Sea at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Marker reads: "Edward Tjmka[?]. Born in March 9, 1932. Died in March 6, 1968." April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells....
Note on verso: Coast Guard Captain Jeffery Hartman lays a wreath on the grave of Seaman C.C. Moulthrope in Unalaska during memorial services and the dedication of the Bering Sea Patrol Memorial where several Revenue Cutter and Coast Guard sailors...