Title from image caption Members of Juneau Fire Department pose in front of a float [Fourth of July?] Individuals identified in the photograph are: 1) Emory Valentine, 2) Lockie MacKinnon, 3) Jack McKay, 4) Si Tanner, and 5) Ernest...
From: Lisianski, Urey, 1773-1837, Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern
His waterproof boots are made of bearded sealskin bottoms and hairless seal skin tops. He carries a staff called an Unaaqpauraq in Iñupiaq with a point on one end and a hook at the other, used to test the strength of the ice before walking on it....
Caption: Young brown bear had got away from soldiers. This captian was trying to hook his colar(sic). The bear finally scramed down the pole past him. It was nite (sic) and we were holding flashlights on scene. I was at the camp buying pictures....
Caption: Young brown bear had got away from soldiers. This captian was trying to hook his colar(sic). The bear finally scramed down the pole past him. It was nite (sic) and we were holding flashlights on scene. I was at the camp buying pictures....
Two Native women sitting in front of wood partition wearing fur blankets and scarves, with baskets, a halibut hook, and other crafts displayed. Studio portrait. c. 1900.
Eskimo hunter wearing fur parka standing next to kayak with seal and harpoon, near Nome, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. He took the seal home in the back of his "kayak". Chapter 10, page 69, par[agraph] 3. Here are...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Eskimo woman skinning reindeer fawn hanging from hook on rack at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant corral in Golovin, Alaska, with skinned fawn hanging alongside and people in...
Brass with barbless nail hook set in; wire loop wound with string. One circular eye has been carved out of the brass on one side of the piece. Another eye hole can be seen, but is obscured by the inset nail. 18cm x 2.7cm.
Ivory shank tapered at both ends, the top end more so than bottom. The smaller tapered end has two holes drilled through it to accomadatethe picture wire wound through for leader. Attached to the loop made at the opposite end of the picture frame...
Title taken from label on matting. Reindeer Committee member Frank Reeds holds reindeer antlers covered with velvet at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant corral in Golovin, Alaska. Reindeer carcasses hang from hook on racks in...
Men getting ready to hook up a team of horses to a loaded wagon in front of the Frye-Bruhn building in Seward, Alaska. Sign on building reads: "Frye-Bru[hn]." 1906-1912? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Semi-lunar shaped pin with hook on back so that a watch can be attached; all gold; made in Nome; "OME" stamped on back; small gold nuggets soldered on front and semi-lunar shaped piece of ivory inset; 1-1/2 in. wide and 1-1/2 in. tall including...