Sled dog team and musher on a river with spectators. The musher is running behind the sled and the dogs look tired. Some buildings and river boats are visible in the background. From other related photographs in the...
Color postcard is postmarked from Seattle, Wash. on Jun. 9, 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. Written on verso, "Hotell [Hotel] Northern. June 9, 09. Dear Father, Mother, Sisters and Brothers. I...
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....
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Alan May taken after his return from the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Myself, Osborne and a sea-man." View of Alan May, "Ozzie" Osborne, and another man aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. View of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture experimental station, Kodiak, Alaska. Inscription from verso: "July 7th. Dear Mother & Father - have been working hard at the store and have been too tired evenings to write - The next boat...
Title drawn from verso Two men stand at river's edge, examining contents of gold pan; a skiff, loaded with gear, is tired to shore Note: Allenkakat is a variation of the name for the Alatna River, which flows into the Koyukuk River at...
Title drawn from verso; verso note is shown below photograph Two men stand at river's edge, examining contents of gold pan; a skiff, loaded with gear, is tired to shore Note: Allenkakat is a variation of the name for the Alatna River,...
Caption: "Each man that catches a whale [has] to give what they call a skin dance. A blanket of skins is stretched like in the picture and held by as many persons can get around it, then a person goes in and is tossed up in the air until he is...