(7:50 min) (16 of 17) Medical emergencies & tourist industry While teaching at Ft. Yukon woman was having a breech birth. Agreed to take her, got everything ready and when he called to bring her to airplane the baby was born. Wien drove out...
(7:29 min) (10 of 17) Exciting and scary situations
Teaching in Ft. Yukon, went to Fairbanks then headed back with heavy load. Ft. Yukon ice fogged in, headed back to Fairbanks, White Mountains were fogged in too, had to climb over top. ...
(3:15 min) (05 of 17) Back to teaching
Bad fire season too many people crashing. Took job flying for Trans-ocean airways, then flew Korean air lift for military. After war too much competition from Wien Airways so went back to teaching. ...
(3:16 min) (03 of 17) Army, teaching and Fish & Game Trained in Sta. Maria California (Moffitt Field) finished in 1942. James C. Ryan old instructor talked about jobs. Got out of Army during WWII to teach school, took Gov. Gruening and Rep....
Nels H. Lawson, II poses with Michael Miller for promoting the Sitka Tribal Tours (Enterprises) in the Sitka Historical National Park "Totem Park" for the 1994 season.
Sitka Tribal Enterprise June 2007 tourist season. The Sheetka Kwaan Naakahidi Dance group performers are being introduced by the Dance Show Coordinator-Angie Ketah. The dancers are from left to right: Leonty Williams, Shante Rice, Unknown, Unknown,...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
"(L-R) Pvt Frederick Nielsen and Sp3 Joseph Kohler, demonstrate operation of radio set studied in class given by the USARAL Signal School, Ft. Richardson, Alaska."
Title supplied by cataloger. Dog yard. Man stands in dog yard filled with kennels. Dogs stand or lieon ground. Trees in background. Slide printed 6/1978. Original format: 35mm color slide
Description from image margin "To the left of that, you see the upper grade students. Three of them graduated into high school this spring. - Diane's Loss, Peter's gain."
View of village elder teaching Inupiaq language in classroom in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. April 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".