A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
Handwritten note reads "Fishing." Person standing near a hole in the ice holding a round fishing net. Nearby in the snow is what appears to be a shovel and a type of spear.
Title from caption. Verso reads: "3-. #30. Galena, AK. 1955." Image shows an African American man wearing a military hat, digging with a shovel. Behind him, several buildings, a pickup truck and power lines are visible. Image is...
Title from caption. Verso reads: "2-. 30. Galena, Alaska. '55." Image shows an African American airman wearing a hat and uniform, digging with a shovel. Image shows blurring of a double exposure or long exposure.
58 second film clip, color silent. From title frame: "Moving Images Collection". Film show whales surfacing at a breathing hole in the ice, the hole is surrounded by people watching and filming them.
Title taken from verso. Photograph of the Ice carnival house built by Pietro Vigna, March 1934. Otto Geist on far right in bird feather parka. Visible in the photograph are many examples of native hunting and fishing equipment such as seal poke...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "I learned to go about in these canoes very well, altho not many white men care to use them. One sits on the bottom, or doubled-up on the knees as...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows two men standing on the deck of a ship. The are standing in front of a port hole. The man on the right appears to be Joe Crosson.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a whale with ropes piercing it's upper an lower jaws. It is being hauled up out of a hole in the ice. People's legs can be seen in the photographs.