35 second, color/silent, film clip of a whale hunt, 1951-1959. The men look for whales with the aid of a telescope, shoot a small white whale, pull it to shore with some type of grappling hook, and eventually pull it onto shore with ropes. A...
View of the barge "Blazer" run aground at Kanatak, Alaska, near Kodiak, with men preparing to pull the boat free. From verso: "Kanatak Barge Blazer on beach after storm parcial [sic] buried in ice & sand being ready for cat to pull her out on beach...
Title from image Men, horses, and dog teams pull sleds loaded with supplies to the summit [possibly Thomson Pass]; one man rests on snow with his dogs gathered around
Rudy and Ross Moses in Allakaket in 1964 or 1965. Bertha would pull them behind her on the sled while packing her daughter Brenda. Photo taken in March or April by Bertha...
Title from caption. Photograph of men and dogs landing a boat on the shore ice in early spring. Narrative in photo album reads: "Landing mail in spring. Dogs are helping pull boat to shore thru broken ice."
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a few people watching a dog team pull a sled down a city street. A musher stands on the back of the sled with another person sitting in the seat. The location is most likely Nome, Alaska. Original size...
Title from verso. Photograph of a tracked vehicle pulling an artillery piece out of the mud. Verso reads: "Just a couple hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle is Adak Island, in Aleutian chain, where Task Force Williwaw has been...
(4:45 min.) (22 of 24) 22 Matanuska Colony project
Assisted in shipping the Matanuska Colony. Some stuck it out; others only lasted a few weeks. The company shipped everything: buildings, concrete, and people. Sewick worked for the Alaska...
(3:24 min.) (24 of 24) 24 Barge runs Barges were difficult to bring into port, had to judge waves and tides just right. On one trip to Unalakleet, men, women and children off-loaded supplies. In the 1940's the people of Unalakleet wanted...
70 second film clip, color/silent, of fishing near Deering, Alaska. A man and a boy in a small rowboat set the net and haul it in. People on shore help pull it in and pick the fish out.
Three minute, color/silent film clip of the 1959 Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage. Images include a fur auction, dog sled weight pull, blanket toss, people posing in wooden cut-out paintings, and a merry-go-round.
Title taken from accompanying note. "Volunteer workers help recover personal belongings in the Turnagain area Anchorage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". Several men with rope pull pieces of a building up a cliff formed by the...
Title taken from caption. "Going up Valdez Summit, D54, Johnson". On the left side is written, "Thompson's Pass". A train of horses pull sleds through the mountain pass. Compare with UAF-1989-0166-116-Print.
Title taken from caption. A group of young boys watch as hunters pull a beluga whale onto the beach. Several people are in an umiak pulled up onto the beach beside the whale. Original photograph size: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch.
Title taken from caption."Alaska Nellie" Lawing posing in front of her cabin. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "Near the dock where we landed there is a home owned by one Nellie. I found out that Nellie is a well-known Alaskan character. Stolfe...