Title handwritten on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 15, 1961 and depicts the airfield at the airport at Fort Yukon, Alaska. The image shows the airstrip to the left, as well as a log building with a metal roof and...
Title from indexer. Photograph an airplane sitting on snow. Snow covered houses can be seen in the background. The side of the plane reads "Wien Alaska Airways Inc." The plane is a Hamilton Metal Plane. Wien Alaska Airways operated under...
Choy, Terence (artist). Size: 17 x 30 x 12 in. Medium: Metal, plastic, and acrylic paint 17" gold pan mounted on 3 castors; pan partially painted in blended oil colors; 3" letters ('a' 's' 'l') and number (5) bolted to pan; red dashed arrow on...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Cyanotype portrait of an Alaska Native man and woman in front of a log building in southcentral Alaska, possibly at Tyonek, Knik, or Ladd's Station. The man is sitting on a metal can and wearing a hat, while the woman is sitting on a wooden crate...
Anecia Olympic splitting fish while her son Kevin looks on. She is on the banks of her mother Mary Olympic's fish camp beach. As of 2011, none of the buildings are standing.
Title by indexer. A small building with a sign above the door reading "Arctic Airways Freight House". Barrels and other metal scraps can be seen nearby.
Comments by R. N. De Armond: . The name on the life ring is RESEARCH. The MacBride list (Alaska Weekly, 9/l/44) lists RESEARCH as being an iron hull with propeller. Went to the Koyukuk in 1898 and returned there in 1899; went to St. Michael in...
View from above. A large crowd of men who fill the street. A small girl in the center of the image. Sign on a building: Sheet Metal Works, Plumbing, Heating, Roofing, Oil burners, A.M. Geyer, Phone 145. Photographer's number 3.
Eskimo women cutting fish on beach, Tununak. (On verso: A group of Tununak people on the beach at Tununak.) Three women with children sitting on a beach cutting fish with a metal tub in front of them. In the background fish is drying on fish...
Full-length studio portrait of Native American man, wearing traditional clothing, including a headdress, fringed leather jacket, band of metal bells, and moccasins; he holds a rifle and carries a blanket draped across one arm; headdress...
Man on the left uses a tool that resembles a metal garden hoe. The other men are using metal scraping tools, called "tuggaun" in Iñupiaq, which are the same tools used to butcher a whale. Scraping is made easier by freezing the skin.