Photograph of Fort Yukon, Alaska showing T. H. Burman's General Merchandise and Horton & Moore dealers in merchandise and raw furs which is behind and to the right. Two women are visible outside Burman's store.
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows many different types of fur pelts hanging and lying in front of the Rodman Alaska Trading Co. A piece of white paper is lying across the center of the image.
Title from caption. Photograph of fur buyers and traders on the bank of the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are many thousands of dollars worth of fur spread on the beach. In the spring as soon...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from verso. Photograph of sealskin harvest barreled for transport on the USS Thuban, seen in the background. Verso reads: "Seven of 16. Precious Cargo -- In neatly spaced barrels, part of a four million dollar sealskin harvest...
(4:21 min.) (13 of 25) Trade and shipping in Alaska Alaska trade and shipping -- unique; one way haul; exception -- salmon; ship salmon -- cannery; ship movements in water
(5:27 min) (09 of 27) Flying for fur buyers
Leo Kay member of the Koslosky family. Fairbanks, Ruby, Hughes, Kobuk, Shungnak, Kiana, Kotzebue then Nome. Maime Wig's Roadhouse ran into Jim McGoffin, & (Muskrat) Johnnie Schwagler. Took off...
Title taken from caption. "Frank Kemis trapped in the Little Delta River area for many years -- lived at Birch lake". A view of a log cabin, (possibly Jemis' home,) with Jemis standing at the entry way.
Title taken from caption. "Porcupine River - Men at Shuman House about 1937. (L-R): McCauley, W.C. Curtis of Howling Dog, Pete Simple, Joe Netro and Harry Healy, Old Crow Yukon Territory, Rube Mason and Frank Foster, Fishing Branch Yukon...