Title taken from donor's caption. "George Potter and Bighorns at our camp on McCarthy Creek. Occasionally the monotony was relieved by a sheep hunting expedition but sheep were few in number and wary. Once we shot a big, shaggy mountain goat...
Kayak frame and willow tent poles are stored on rack. These racks were used to hang caribou skins on for drying in the sun, and to store food on in the winter to keep it away from the dogs. Occasionally polar bears were still able to get into the...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Beach along Arctic shore 1/2 mile west from mouth of Clarence River. Taken from the top of a frozen silt bank 20 feet high that marks the upper limit of narrow beach. This bank has drift...
Image appears identical to uaa-hmc-0166-b1-77-5-5. Caption for that image reads: "Beach along Arctic shore 1/2 mile west from mouth of Clarence River. Taken from the top of a frozen silt bank 20 feet high that marks the upper limit of narrow beach....
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Beach along Arctic shore 1/2 mile west from mouth of Clarence River. Taken from the top of a frozen silt bank 20 feet high that marks the upper limit of narrow beach. This bank has drift...
Ivory shank tapered at both ends, the top end more so than bottom. The smaller tapered end has two holes drilled through it to accomadatethe picture wire wound through for leader. Attached to the loop made at the opposite end of the picture frame...
Title taken from caption. Photograph of a driftwood container. From May's journal, dated July 29th: "On showing [Hrdlicka] the tobacco box that was given me at Atka, he stated that it was copied in shape from the old Russian snuff boxes, but is...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
View of the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service cutter the "Thomas Corwin" at sea. The Corwin occasionally had two spars on the foremast and two long boats per side. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.