Title taken from caption. View of a house and its front yard in Kodiak. The yard is covered in equisetum also known as horsetails. Robert F. Griggs wrote in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes "Of all the native plants the the one which...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows several yaks standing in a fenced enclosure in winter. A large wooden bin is visible inside the enclosure and a farm building is visible in the upper right corner of the image. The U.S....
Title from indexer's notes. Image shows yaks standing inside a fenced enclosure. A farm building and tall trees can be seen behind the yaks in the background. The U.S. Agricultural Experiment Farm in Fairbanks became part of the Alaska...
Title from indexer's notes. Image shows yaks standing inside a fenced enclosure. A farm building and tall trees can be seen behind the yaks in the background. The U.S. Agricultural Experiment Farm in Fairbanks became part of the Alaska...
Title from caption. Image shows two yaks standing before a wooden fence. A farm building is visible in the background. The U.S. Experimental Farm depicted here became the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Alaska Agricultural College and...
Woman with a fire nearby boiling a liquid in a pot.
Caption: An old woman burns the shavings from the new paddles. She throws the ashes over the path of the whale boat as it is taken to open water. This is to scare away evil spirits....
Title taken from caption. View of wireless radio station on Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedtion on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Title taken from front. Winter view along Tanana Mines Railroad (also known as Tanana Valley Railroad) tracks, Fairbanks, Alaska. Also from front: "Publ. for Chisholm & Hall's Bookstore." Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 3/8".
Title taken from caption. "William Carlo - Trapped Ruby - Nowitna Area Since the 1930's. The Carlo Brothers Are Well Known Trappers. Alaskans." Note on the back of the photograph gives the following additional date: 1934-1967.
Title from verso. "Wilkins' Expedition. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." The markings on the side of the ski plane read: "Detroit News Wilkins Expedition" and "Stinson Detroiter". See UAF-1991-98-427 for more information.
Title taken from verso. View of Wien Alaska Airlines F27 over Fairbanks, Alaska and Ladd Air Force Base (later known as Fort Wainwright). 1960-1965. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
What looks to be the entire population of Long, Alaska along with many guests watch a wheelbarrow race on July 4th, 1915. Visible businesses are: The Pioneer Store, general merchandise; Campbell's Store, which is also the Post Office; The...
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundary between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in Bering Strait.
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Waterfront photograph of the town of Iditarod. A barge and some boats are in the river. A sign on a building reads: "Robert Simpson. Jeweler & Optician. Iditarod Land Office. Commission House." This photograph is believed...
Title taken from label on matting. Close up view of grub, or larva, or warble fly (known as pest to reindeer) at Golovin, Alaska. Photographer's number 7898. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 9 5/8".