First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from verso. View of glacial scientist and Jesuit priest Father Bernard Rosencrans Hubbard eating meal on boulder in Alaska. 1927-1929? Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Title taken from caption. Father Kochergin, a Russian Orthodox priest, posing in the Nikolski Church. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title from verso. Photograph shows a group of people standing outside in the snow. The group consists of women, men, children, altar servers, and perhaps a priest. Some of the children and a man are wearing surplices. Verso reads "St....
ASL-MS004-2-3b-5
Item 5
(acc. # 10213)
Physical description: [68]p.
Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975
The following are stitched together as one booklet.
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "A celebratory dinner was held amid the tool displays at Rotman's general store/restaurant/hotel (Bishop Gordon at head of table, Al Reiners's wife Joanne at right). Having a second...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "A celebratory dinner was held amid the tool displays at Rotman's general store/restaurant/hotel (Bishop Gordon at head of table, Al Reiners's wife Joanne at right). Having a second...
Title from caption. Photograph of Etta Jones holding two puppies. Verso reads: "Montague, Mich.: The long mystery concerning the fate of C. Foster Jones and wife Etta (above) who were the only white couple living on Attu when the Japs...
Title from verso. Photograph of C. Foster Jones holding a puppy. Verso reads: "Montague, Mich.: The long mystery concerning the fate of C. Foster Jones and wife Etta (above) who were the only white couple living on Attu when the Japs...
Handwritten note reads "Russian wedding, Tony Larsen, Napaskiak [Napakiak], 1-7-50." Similar to UAF-1997-108-228, but more people have joined the crowd surrounding the wedding couple and priest.
Woman in bridal attire and man in suit stand next to a priest. The wedding couple hold candles. Several people surround the couple. Behind the group of people are crosses, indicating a cemetary. See also...
Handwritten note reads "Russian Christmas. Napaskiak [Napakiak]." Four women in headscarves and holding candles kneel with a priest near an altar. The interior of the church is decorated with Christmas decorations.
Title by indexer. Photograph shows a rocky peninsula jutting out into a body of water. This has been identified as Priest Rock, a bar on Unalaska Island in the entrance to Dutch Harbor. Original size is 4.25 x 2.5 in.
View of a priest in the chapel of the Copper Valley School in Glennallen, Alaska. The altar and crucifix can be seen behind the priest. Photo taken during a religious retreat held at the school in 1966. Photo taken in 1966. Original photograph...