Bill "Wild Bill" DeWitt (left) and Charles Emswiler (or Emsweiler) pose with their sheep kill near Seward, Alaska. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title from verso. Image of the Cushman Street Bridge crossing the Chena Slough (later Chena River), looking north. A crowd of people is visible on the bridge, while the Catholic church (apparently Immaculate Conception) and a hill are visible...
Title from verso. Image shows several dozen fox pelts hung on a fence in front of a building. Buildings are assocaited with the Kayak Island Fox Ranch. Photo may have been taken by Calvin F. Townsend, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries game...
Title by indexer. Image shows a man and a woman at a microphone on a dance floor, with a musical band on the stage behind them. Paper Jack-o-lanterns and are hung from the ceiling at top right.
Photograph shows single story log building serving as the Fort Yukon Post Office. The sign on front reads: "U. S. Post Office, Ft. Yukon, Alaska, 8 ML north of the arctic circle". There are flowers blooming along...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Simon Pitka standing in front of his summer tent at Stevens Village. Visible in the photo are Simon, his tent, a young man, two children and a dog. A stove is visible just inside the tent, with fuel wood right...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of an elevated cache with at least four dogsleds stored for summer. Hung higher and to the right side of the photo is drying meat. Also visible are at least two canoes. Narrative in photo album reads: "An...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman on the bank of the Yukon River cutting salmon. Narrative in photo album reads: Above is Eva cleaning salmon. This is a hard, dirty, wet job. The salmon are split flat wise along the back bone to the...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of salmon hung up to dry. Narrative in photo album reads: "The salmon are split flat wise along the back bone to the tail. They are then hung over poles to partially dry in the sun. If to be used for dog food...
Title from caption. Photograph of a king salmon weighing 45 lbs., hung from a fish drying rack. Cut fish are drying behind the king. Narrative in the photo album reads: "At the left is a king salmon weighing fourty-five pounds. Some have...
Title from caption. Photograph of a fish drying rack with a few fish, a hat, and several other things. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is a drying rack, with a few fish. In the front of the picture is a swinging cradle with a...
Title by indexer. Photograph shows the masonic temple in Fairbanks, Alaska, which was built in 1906 according to the building. A large American flag is hung outside it.
40 second film clip, color/silent, of statehood celebration activities. Anchorage Daily Times front page. Reading Daily News Miner. Newsboy selling papers. United States and Alaska flags hung from upper stories of building. Fire engine in a...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 5 - Camp on the trail at foot of divide going over to head of west branch of Toklat". Photograph shows a man sitting in his campsite next to a pot on top of a campfire. There is also a teapot behind him. There...
Title from verso. Alternate title from verso: "Navy ship resupplies Pribilof Islands and brings back seal skins(Nine of 16)" Children swing as other children look on from a boat landing. Verso reads: "Nine of 16. Bering Sea Playground...
Title from verso. Photograph of Arthur Pitka holding a rifle and a pair of snowshoes. A lynx is hung from the cabin roof at the far left. Indexer's note: Sally Hudson added further information in February of 1989. She wrote that she grew up...
"After sorting, the grass blades are gathered in neat bundles and hung out to cure. Whenever a rain shower came along all the curing grass bundles throughout the village were whisked out of sight as if by magic." (Olaus J. Murie, Circa 1937)
Title taken from caption. Clipping from a publication of two children wrapped in ceremonial blankets. The child on the left appears to be wearing an Orca or killer whale blanket, and a frog blanket is hung on the door frame behind the...