Closeup view of Bill Ritter holding two Alaskan king crabs, about to drop them into the cooking vat at the Alaska-Fresh Crab Plant in Homer, Alaska. He is dressed in a rubber apron and wearing a hat. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa prepare to launch a surf boat to investigate a distressed vessel. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "By radio we hear that two boats have been reported missing, and we are now searching for them....
Cyanotype photograph of Captain David Legge Brainard (left), 14th U.S. Infantry and leader of the Alaska Relief Expedition, and Captain George Ruehlen at Dyea in 1898. The two men stand in front of a tent with boxes stacked to the right. Both have...
John D. Nelson, with his grand son Kevin Olympic as Peter Apokedak Sr. looks on. John D and Kevin Olympic are putting down the "holy"picture, that is only put in the center of the church before Russian Orthodox Good Friday.
Logging in the vicinity of Pigot Bay, Prince William Sound. Logger is using a Caterpillar bulldozer with an attached lifting arm to move logs into place to form a log raft. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".