The Fairbanks Floods Photographs consist of images of Chena River floods in the years 1937, 1948, 1960, 1963, 1964, and 1967. Most images depict the downtown area of Fairbanks, Alaska; many are aerial photographs. Photographers include Wyman’s...
Title taken from sign. View of railroad tracks at Alaganik, Alaska. Sign reads: "To Cordova 20.9 MI. Alaganik. To Chitina 108.5 MI." The smaller sign on the bridge, partially covered by brush, reads: 32B. Original photograph size: 3 3/4" x 4...
Title taken partially from caption: "McKinley Lake. Lucky Shot Mine adit." The mine is misidentified in the caption, but is the Lucky Strike Mine. View from inside of adit toward two men outside of the mine entrance on the mine car rails. One man...
Title taken from caption: "Native hospital in Juneau and TB annex. Late 30s. Torn down in 1958." View of the three-story hospital and surrounding buildings. A person leans out of a second-story window. Original photograph size: 3 3/4" x 4 3/4".
Title taken partially from caption. View of two men working at a construction site on a hillside at the Lucky Strike Mine. Caption misidentifies the location as the Lucky Shot Mine. Original photograph size: 3 3/4" x 4 3/4".
View of two men standing between the Copper River and Northwestern Railway tracks and a trailhead sign pointing the way to McKinley Lake and the Lucky Strike Mine. The photograph caption misidentifies the location as the Lucky Shot Mine. ...
Title taken partially from caption: "Lucky Shot Mine crew, Bunkhouse at Mine site near McKinley Lake." View of ten men standing in front of a log building. The mine is misidentified in the caption as the Lucky Shot Mine. Original photograph...
Joseph Kowchee, Big Ben, Simon [Mukpeadeluk? cf. 1920 census], August [Chemoowick? cf. 1920 census], Frizof Williams, Abraham [K.? cf 1920 census] Lincoln, and Edward Delilah [sp? likely Daliluk, cf 1920 census] work with reindeer. The men and...
View of some of the homes built along the cliffs of King Island. The buildings are supported by stilts braced against the steep slopes. A hide is stretched out on a frame in the right hand side foreground of the photograph.
Two dancers stand on a tarp spread in front of drummers. The drummers are seated in front of an umiak which has been turned to one side to act as a shelter. Spectators stand behind and are seated in front of the umiak.
Portrait of Helen Egelik wearing a fur parka and standing on the ice by the town of White Mountain, Alaska. From verso: "Helen Egelik, wearing a beautiful parka."
View of the town of White Mountain from the water. Several large buildings overlook the waterfront. The largest one to the back is probably the school.
Portrait of woman standing at the entrance to her dwelling. From verso: "Muck Chuck, the lame woman, Peter Kowchee's sister." [Possibly Mutchoak, cf. 1920 census.]
Group portrait of five girls wearing dresses. From verso: "School girls wearing the dresses made in their sewing classes, 1924, White Mountain, Alaska."