Four boys work at repairing the ceiling at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." 1946-1955. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
Caption attached to this photograph relates: Graduates of the electronic technician pilot class undertaken by the Bureau of Indian Affairs are greeted by Senator E. Gruening at RCA Headquarters in Anchorage. The class has just returned from RCA...
As the chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development of the Senate Public Works Committee, Senator Gruening inspects a housing project in Bethel while in the town to hold hearings.
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows an elderly man standing and holding his palette while working on an oil painting. The painting depicts Alaska Native people wearing parkas in a winter scene. The man is wearing glasses, a shirt, pants,...
Title from verso. Image shows two Native men leaning against a railing. The men are dressed in fur clothing, and one man is wearing a knitted hat. Behind them a building with a business sign is visible. A man pushing a wheeled loading cart...
Title from verso. Image shows a Native man, woman and two young boys, seated near houses built of sod and wooden planking. They are dressed in European clothing. Photo may have been taken by Calvin F. Townsend, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
A reduced version of the De l'Isle/Buache map published by the Prussian Academy of Science & Literature, published by Euler, a German mathematician who was with the St. Petersburg Academy. Shows routes of Russian discoveries in 1723, 1732, and...
50 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Stevens Collection, 1968?". Film shows a man working on a engine with a propeller. He then starts the engine and pushes his home-made snowmachine into motion.
Title from cataloger. Photograph of five school students in a classroom. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below ia a small group of pupils. The three girls in front are sisters, Lucy, Sara and Laura Luke. Lucy, the center one, altho not quite...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of students turning soil for a new garden. Narrative in photo album reads: "Part of my school and myself, breaking up new ground for our school garden. This was part of the regular school work and was done...
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title from note on verso: "Eskimo women R. R. work crew of Cantwell section won awards for best maintained section." In an e-mail dated 22 May 2013, Leann Wagerle mentions that these women are Athabascan, not Eskimo. She identifies them: ...