"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...
Two men stand outside a door. A sign on the door reads: "Lomen Bros. Studio." The man on the right is wearing a pin-stripe suit, and preparing to hand something to the man on the left. There are photos and portraits in...
Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
According to a Jan. 2, 2010, e-mail from Harold Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist of Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, "This was probably a 'shoreboat' in Sitka. ...
Caption: Willard L. Bowman, Executive Director, State Commission for Human Rights, visits with Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett during a short stay in Washington. From Washington Mr. Bowman, long-time resident of Anchorage, flew to Toledo to join Mrs....
Title from verso. Image shows an elderly woman wearing a visor and sweater cardigan. Biographical information from the Amelia Hill Photograph Collection at the Alaska State Library states, "Amelia Hill was the resident nurse for the...
Title by indexer. Image shows vegetables, flowers, grains and herbs exhibited on a wooden table inside a showroom. A table runner consisting of three stripes hangs from the edge of the table. The top stripe shows several rows of stars. A...
Title from verso. Image shows a white man dressed in Native fur clothing standing by the door to a cabin. Individual may be Calvin Townsend who worked as a game warden for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries starting in 1913. Calvin Townsend...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of garden. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left is the garden produced by these workers showing the potatoes in bloom. These people never knew vegetables until introduced by white men. They are very...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from caption. Photograph of Old Eliza taking salmon from her net. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is Old Eliza cleaning salmon on the beach of the Yukon River. Her canoe is in the water near her. These squaws are very expert in...
Title from caption. Photograph of fish drying on a fish rack inside a shed. Narrative in the photo album reads: "The salmon for food, after being partially dried in the sun, is placed under a tent or in a shed made from bark peeled from spruce...
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 caption. Photograph of a mining operation that used steam to thaw the permafrost. Visible in the photo are the boiler, wood pile, cabin and what may be another cabin. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Winter view of a one man...