Title taken from caption. View of an Alaska Native woman standing next to a clothesline with grass hanging to dry. There is a wooden building in the background. From May's journal, dated July 12th: "The grass that is cut for making baskets, is cut...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]". At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Katalla pupils. All Lees and Hanesens [Hansens.]
Mae Hansen Lange and Stella Hansen Janson identified the children as (left to right): Gene Durkee, Roy Hansen, Mae Hansen, Lousie Hansen, Mary Ann Durkee, Helen Hansen and Edward Hansen....
Title from verso. Verso: "Taku" Tiger Olson and Ethel McMontgomery (Mrs. I. J. [Ivil James]) "Tiger" 93 yrs is a famous man in Alaska - a long time friend of Ivil's and mine - Kept charge of a huge cannery/buildings and home of Father Hubbard.
View is south of Dawson City, showing police barracks Handwritten note under image: "Mounted Police barracks. They kept good order. Soapy Smith wanted no part of them. We stayed on the Alaska side of the line." Photographer's number 73
Title taken from caption. The 1896 Peary expedition to Greenland included an artist, Albert Operti, and the man seated is likely to be him. Expedition member’s name as identified in “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of...
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...
Portrait of William Godley, ship's cook aboard the S.S. Hope en route to Greenland on Peary's 1896 expedition. Crewmember’s name as identified in “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of 1896” by Benjamin Hoppin.
Title from front. View of food caches on the Klondike River in Yukon Territory. From verso: "Cache in which food was kept away from wolves, dogs &c." ca. 1900-1901. Photographer: probably George Gordon Cantwell.
Title from caption. Photograph of Charlie Luke with two caches behind him. Narrative in Photo album reads: "Charlie Luke in his 'dress-up' outfit. Indian caches in rear, where fish & furs are kept."
(6:58 min.) (16 of 28) 16. Virginia speaks about flight instruction
Virginia's first solo flight was on December 7, 1941, but since all flights were canceled that day she had to solo again a week later. Flights were cancelled because of...
Title taken from stereograph. "246-(11530) -- Arctic City is near the Arctic Circle on a branch of the Yukon River. You would know by everything in this view that you are in a cold climate. In the background are the snow-covered mountains with...
Title from caption. Photograph of fish drying on a fish rack inside a shed. Narrative in the photo album reads: "The salmon for food, after being partially dried in the sun, is placed under a tent or in a shed made from bark peeled from spruce...