Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute, MPG-1 format. The cook tent makes caribou stew. Beverly and Mary Hugo each have a bowl. The crew makes drinking water with snow, a continual...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 56 seconds, MPG-1 format. Katherine Gaudet makes coffee while Charise Hallberg puts ice on to boil water. Kunnaan makes a joke about Fruit Loops cereal...
Title taken from front. The Santa Clara, with people on deck, makes ready to land at Seward, Alaska on Resurrection Bay. Also from front: "102A. L.N.G." Photograph number 102A. 1908-1913. Photographer: Lillie N. Gordon. Original photograph size: 5"...
Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from verso. Photograph of two men carrying equipment. Verso reads: "A tent pole makes a handy "hauler" as these Yanks lug their equipment across the barren soil of newly-occupied Amchitka. The men carried the where-with-all for...
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. Soldier eating captured supplies with captured eating utensils. Verso reads: "Kiska -- The rice left behind when the Japs fled the island of Kiska makes a tasty titbit for S/Sgt. Emdond A. Birdsell...
Color photo of Indian women and their children with tents in the background. Postcard is postmarked from Seattle, Washington on Sept. 30, 1909 and addressed to Mr. [Norton?] Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. Written on verso,...
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Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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65 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a small town newspaper being produced. According to the sign hanging on the building, Jack Allman was the editor and publisher. Possibly this is him in the clip. A man types and then makes copies of...
Title taken from caption. "Point where the Alaska Northern Railway crosses Resurrection River near Seward, Alaska. The country traversed by the Alaska Northern Railway is practically all mountainous, which makes its scenery very attractive and...
Title taken from caption. "The Camp at Rainbow Creek taken from a distance. The route of the railroad along Turnagain Arm is through mountainous country, and for a distance of 30 miles the railroad must be hewn through solid rock, which makes...
Title by cataloguer. "A shoulder length black and white photograph of an unidentified middle aged man, a slight smile can be detected across his face. He is wearing a distinct looking large framed reading glasses, a dark pin stripped suit and a...