Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Terrified at the thought of staying indoors after fleeing from the Alaskan earthquake area, the David Wilson family of Portage fled inland and spent the night sleeping out in the open. ...
Title from caption. "Birds Eye View of Nome From Lane's Derrick. 1903." Creator's mark reads "Dobbs." The inland ship partly obscured by a dark-roofed building reads "Pacific Cold Storage Co." on the side.
Portrait of Robert "Bob" Atwood, long-time editor and publisher of the Anchorage Times newspaper and chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee Information on verso: Robert B. Atwood "chats with Hostess Maxine Branham after arriving in...
Complete title: The great probability of a North West Passage : deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean....
Full title: Xóots_x _X'ayakuwdli_gadee Shaawát Yéil Naawóo _x'éida_x sh kalneek = The bear husband / told by Tom Peter ; edited and transcribed by Nora Florendo. Added title: Bear husband.
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...
Messenger Feast (Kivgiq) Runner (Aqpatat) holding Messenger Sticks (Ayauppiaq). Runner would travel from host village to another village to invite them to the Kivgiq. The messenger sticks would have items attached to them to symbolize gifts the...
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 23 seconds, MPG-1 format. A group of campers went on a long hike, heading out first along the shore and then arcing inland and back towards...