"Thompson with oar, Larson rowing, Norwood taking it easy. A memorable trip, in a small boat, following the ice breakup on the Yukon River. Lake LaBarge was still frozen we pulled the boat on a crude sled over the ice. We were commanded by the...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Sept 15 - Haydon in boat at mouth of Toklat". Photograph shows a man sitting in a boat holding an oar. The boat has been loaded up with supplies.
Title taken from collection notes. "Floating down the Upper Tanana. May 17, 1919". A man, standing, pushes with an oar; a dog and a child in a hat are seated.
Title taken from collection notes. "Capt. Green in work boat." The Captain stands in the bow, pushing with an oar. Two others sit, rowing the boat, which holds a spool of rope. The side of the boat reads: "Str Reliance Work Boat". The...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Second Chief." An outdoor portrait of an unidentified Chief with a woman and a small girl perhaps his family. They are dressed in traditional Alaskan garments. The Chief is holding an oar.
Title taken from caption. Looking across the water at walrus hunters in an umiak; an oar extends past the stern of the umiak. The men are wearing parkas. Original photograph size: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inch.
Title taken from front. An Eskimo boy sits in an umiak holding an oar on the beach at Nome, Alaska. The inside of the umiak is visible so that it is evident how the boat was constructed. Photographer's number 871. n.d. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Color print of Ted Pedersen, manning an oar of the WHITE WHALE, a New Bedford whaleboat, built in Seattle in 1980 and sailed to Bear Cove, Alaska, by Pedersen; the boat was willed to the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska.
Title from image caption Horses tow a flat bottom boat or scow along shore; a man is on one of the horses and another man holds sweep oar in stern of scow [on Niukluk River ?]
Title taken from verso. Five men and a boy with a cedar canoe on the beach. The canoe is outfitted with oar locks and oars, as well as traditional paddles. One man is gutting fish on a rock; another is working with the seine net.