Title taken from verso. Bags of seal oil stored inside a tent like structure at a sealing camp on Nunivak Island. Original photograph size: 4 x 5 inch.
Title taken from image. Four sailing vessels at anchor in the channel, Sitka. Four two-masted sealing or fishing vessels, and a ferry or steam launch, in front of the Sitka Native village.
Title from indexer. Photograph of woman and child holding hands. The child is wearing a life jacket. Verso reads: "Victims of war are these Aleuts who were evacuated from their homes during the installation of Alaskan defenses. Natives...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska...