Ziegler, Eustace P. (artist). Size: 19.25 x 15.25 in. Medium: Oil on canvas board Signed lower left. Painting received by University in 1953, transferred to museum January 1981. Conserved by WCCFA 2003.
Woman with a fire nearby boiling a liquid in a pot.
Caption: An old woman burns the shavings from the new paddles. She throws the ashes over the path of the whale boat as it is taken to open water. This is to scare away evil spirits....
Winter view of waterfront buildings in Seward, Alaska, including Al Dickinson's steam laundry in the old power house building (center). 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5".
Winter scene of school children standing on piles of snow on and around school, Valdez, Alaska. From verso: "School first opened in the year 1901. This is the second one on site. Old city hall - 1st school. I taught here taking Mrs. Paine's place....
Wilma Knox walks down a street in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. From caption: "Bob caught me from behind as I strolled down past what must have been some kind of recreation hall. We looked in the window and there were seats inside and a large...
Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
Wilma Knox leans on a bridge in McCarthy, Alaska, with buildings in the background. From caption: "It was very early morning in McCarthy when Bob got this picture of me leaning over the old bridge at the edge of town. Notice the beautiful white...
Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...
View of truck hauling engine in parade (probably in celebration of July 4th) on Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, with spectators on street. Engine on float is possibly old fire engine. Signs on buildings read: "[Food Cen]ter," "Meats...
View of town buildings at Unalaska, Alaska with American flag flying on pole near harbor at far right. From verso: "Harbor - Unalaska." 1910-1920. Identified as old Alaska Commercial Company compound at site of original area called Dutch Harbor...
View of the Trail of 1898 (the old trail to the Klondike) taken from Inspiration Point on the White Pass and Yukon railroad route near Skagway, Alaska. From verso: "Scene along the Whitehorse [sic] and Yukon RR near Skagway, Alaska." July 10, 1927.
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
View of the Kodiak waterfront in the late 19th century. Three of the buildings have been identified as: a warehouse, behind the large sailing vessel with its sails furled; the Custom House, above the warehouse between the far right masts; and the...