(10:14 min.) (09 of 09)
Learning about the barging business
Eskimo boy hunting; beach; tied up the boat; land downstream on the barge; Demientieff, Martha; summer; advice; barge business; safety net; schooling; adventure; educated children in both...
Title from verso. Back identifies the men: Agents of the Alaska Steamship Company learning of containerization and how it is to work. The agents are, from left to right: Bob Rose -- Seattle; John E. Coulter -- Valdez; Bill...
Title: _Hado_hudigi - eeya_h = I am learning / illustrated by Thelma A. Webster.
Publication: Fairbanks, Alaska : Summer Institute of Linguistics, c1973.
Physical desc: 45 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Note: "Special printing for the Koyukon...
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.
Title by author. Photograph of Eva Luke and Cora Rivenburg as Eva teaches Cora how to use the hand operated sewing machine. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Below is Eva initating Mrs. R. in the mysteries of a hand sewing machine. She was...
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
Title from verso. Photograph of a tracked vehicle pulling an artillery piece out of the mud. Verso reads: "Just a couple hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle is Adak Island, in Aleutian chain, where Task Force Williwaw has been...
(4:58 min.) (08 of 09)
Learning to pilot
Mississippi River; compartments; silt; pilot from Tanana -- Bingo; Fort Yukon; young people; working on river; training vs. trial and error; blueprints; college; getting stuck on the river -- lessons learned
(4:46 min.) (06 of 24) 06 Other tasks Besides doing the cooking and cleaning, the steward was baker, butcher, nurse, waiter, and, on some trips, musician. Cargo handling included shipping the dead; some wouldn't touch the coffins. Was...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...
Brian Okonek talks about his introduction to outdoor activities and involvement in high school mountaineering club, exploring the Talkeetna area, meeting Dave Johnston, his trip in the Alaska Range, relationship with his dad and hopes for a...
Title supplied by cataloger. Dogs. Puppies walk side by side on gravel road pulling a metal hook. Slide labeled, 'Photo by J. Schultz.' Slide printed 9/1981. Original format: 35mm color slide