What looks to be the entire population of Long, Alaska along with many guests watch a wheelbarrow race on July 4th, 1915. Visible businesses are: The Pioneer Store, general merchandise; Campbell's Store, which is also the Post Office; The...
"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows some people watching a musher with a dogsledding team race down the frozen Chena River. Some automobiles are parked in the distance. Caption from finding aid reads "Dogsled race along Chena"....
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two boats that appear to be umiaks in a race. They appear to be paddling down a river. Caption from finding aid reads "People paddling traditional boats in a race". Location may be Nome, Alaska.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a large group of people watching some dog mushers. The spectators are lined up on either side of the mushers like they are having a race.
Title from caption. Postcard of a dogsled race about to start. Narrative in photo album reads: "Ready to start a dog-team race. Each team is timed and must return with every dog it takes out, even if dog is dead, or exhausted or crippled, he...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a girls' foot race on the Fourth of July in 1912. A Lomen Bros. sign can be seen, indicating that this may be in Nome, Alaska. Original size is 5.5 in. x 3.5 in.
There's snow on the ground and two teams of dogs are shown with crowds of people lining a downtown street with stores and businesses in the background.
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Title from collection notes. Many people gathered around a few men with skies on, looks like the beginning of a race, American Flag on hill in background.