Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza Adams standing near a cache. Narration in photo album reads: "At the left is Old Eliza Adams, who was much better than the other Eliza. This one was married to John Dummy. She was...
Title from caption. Photograph of Lucy David and Jennie Pitka standing in front of a fence in Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "Lucy David and Jennie Pitka, two young married women. Jennie's reputation was not very good."
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a tractor with the tail of an airplane attached to it. A barrel and a building sit nearby. Writing on the tractor and the tail reads "Congratulation [?] Mechan[?]" and "Tail Winds and Happy Landings, Just...
Capt. Zeisler performing a marriage on board the USCG Spencer 1939. One of three Alaska Native couples are being married during a triple wedding on a coast guard vessel.
Title from caption: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910: Mt. McKinley, Alaska 20,300 ft. from Explorers Peak, 9,000 ft." Postcard postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Aug. 22, 1913 and addressed to Tomie Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. ...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "Charlie Ayapana, a Little Diomede man married to a Point Hope woman, was by far the most skilled ivory-carver in town." A small child is peeking around the corner, watching the work.
(2:37 min.) (01 of 12) Ada's Background and Statehood Nome -- born; education -- Nome; Boston Tea Party -- learned in fourth grade; "taxation without representation"; Statehood; married -- aviation in Alaska; three children -- raised;...
(4:01 min.) (01 of 27) Family history: Grandfather
Grandfather from Virginia, fought for Union, was a soldier at Sitka during the signing in 1868. Father stayed and married a Creole, part Aleut. Got a Job with the A. C. Co. Grandfather...
(5:05 min) (04 of 19) Education in Chicago Got a request from the Chicago & Altman Railroad to try-out for a fireman job. He was engaged to be married and decided not to work on the railroad. Went to Chicago to take the Ray Automobile...
(4:50 min) (16 of 19) Popularity of road travel Was able to work on 35 cars at a time. Traveled to Detroit for a General Motors dealers' convention. Visited family before returning to Alaska. Met, courted and married his wife, Miss Flora...
Lettering on boat reads: "RUTH 31E842". Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown (white man) came up to the Upper Kobuk in the early 1940s. He owned the first store in Kobuk. He married...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
(4:08 min.) (17 of 28) 17. Virginia comes to Alaska
Virginia was given the chance to come to Alaska as a flight instructor; if she didn't like it she was told she could fly home for free. She only instructed for one summer. She came up,...
09 Flew that summer (1946) (4:15 min,) (09 of 09)
Got married soon thereafter, husband owned a trading post in McGrath. Had a son and then husband got sick and died; left her with a child and a trading post to run. Stayed in McGrath until 1953.
Two women that are possibly standing on a blanket- or rug-covered table, with a moose skull on the front and two men also visible. On the right is Charlotte who married Big Steve and on the left is Margaret Lord.
Title taken from attached note. Cataloguer's note: The writing on the back of the photograph reads: "Deep in the bowels of a gold dredge, Dean Earl Beistline demonstrating." Additional information was supplied later and that inscription reads...
"Peter John elected chief and his wife Susan in Arctic Village, The tall man is Guilbert Joseph a man from Anvik who married a woman from Arctic Village. The other man is unidentified." Visible in this photograph is a cabin with a flag out front...