Title from verso A man squats down to talk with a young child, who has a rope around his waist, tethering him to something on deck; the child, William H. Young, is the son of Eric William Young
Caption: "Young married couple outside their sod house. The house is made by making the frame out of drift wood and then covered with sod to keep the cold wind out during the winter days. In summer they move out into tents."
Caption: "Seals can be caught all the year round. This woman is stretching a seal skin to dry. After it has dried it will be used in making waterproof boots."
Caption: "The only way of traveling on the land or ice during the winter days is by means of sled and dogs. My team coming home from Wainwright to Barrow about 100 miles. I made it in a day and a half."
Caption: "Under the skin canoe there can be seen six drums which are used in our native dance; the man is doing a dance after a successful season of whaling."
Caption: "Every year, ships coming north have to work through ice, taking chances to get through to the places they want to go. This is the sailing vessel S. S. HOLMES, which carries our freight from Seattle to Barrow. This picture was taken around...
Description at top of image: "Cedar boxes made without nails or corner joints…these were enclosed or wrapped in cedar mats and contained the heads which were preserved with skin, etc. intact." On verso: "Found by [Myer] Hofstad on Zarembo...
Title from image caption View of business district, with train tracks visible through snow along side of street; prominent on right is the R. H. Miller and Co. Miners' Store and Outfitter; businesses on other side of the street include...
Full length, seated, profile view of young woman dressed for cold weather; she is identified on the image as [Ogmaona] and in the album caption as "Maona, 1906, Nome" Photographer's number 281
Title from image caption and name on stern of ship Sailing ship, PROSPER of San Francisco, healed over on beach; one man on deck and several on shore, which is strewn with ice Photographer number 236; signed SV[H] Photo