Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
Title from caption. Photograph of Theodore and his son Robert in a birch bark canoe on the Yukon River. Narrative in photo album reads: "Theodore and son Robert. This shows well the beautiful, graceful lines on the birch-bark canoe. A single...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "I learned to go about in these canoes very well, altho not many white men care to use them. One sits on the bottom, or doubled-up on the knees as...
Title from caption. Photograph of an Indian school. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right--school built and maintained for Indians by U. S. Government. All Alaskan Indians must support themselves getting only medical treatment &...
Title from caption. Photograph of two wagons hauling bags of wheat to the grain elevator. Narrative in photo album read: "At right: Hauling bags of wheat to the company elevator in town, four horses are used. This is a dry farming area in...
Title from verso. Mt. Veniaminof blows black smoke. The eruption is photographed from an airplane. Verso reads: "Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska -- Out on the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula Mt. Veniamanof, oldest known volcano and estimated to have...
Title from caption: "Front St., Ruby, Alaska, Jan. 11, 1912."
Street scene of downtown Ruby, Alaska. Rows of businesses and shops are shown with pedestrians walking outside in the snow. Postcard is postmarked from Tanana, Alaska on Feb. 15,...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "NCCo. [indexer note: Northern Commercial Company] dock at St. Michael, note old river steamer boilers holding it up. Docking consists partially of ASSCo. [ indexer note: Alaska Steamship Company]...
"Rifle practice at twenty below zero. Members of the 1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska National Guard on the rifle range during the Guard's Encampment at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Alaska guardsmen must be prepared to fight in all kinds of weather."
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Moving up. This must be the Farthing Horn. The Archdeacon's Tower is on the extreme right."
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 taken from caption.
Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title from accompanying notes. Picturesque mountain scene framed by blue sky and bridge timbers. From the context of the photo, this must be somewhere between Haines Junction and Beaver Creek.
Title from caption. "Plane enroute to mines. Note crevasses and morraines a pilot must avoid in landing." From verso: "One of the richest gold pelts in Alaska and just being exposed by glaciers melting away.Return to Kay Kennedy Box 1205,...
Title taken from caption. View of Robert F. Griggs trying to cross the Katmai River. In his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Griggs states "After working our way to within a hundred yards of the trees in the distance we had to turn back"....
Title from taken caption. View of three soldiers during U.S. Army mountain and glacier training in Alaska. One of the soldiers is keeping the rope taunt while another repels down the cliff with the third man on his back. From verso: "Keeping the...