"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
Official spelling for the creek is Sunaghun Creek This in formation and what directly follows is from Garry Njootli, Yukon Toponymist for the Yukon Government
"Kutcha-Kutchin name reported by I...
Title by indexer. Men posing for photograph on deck in front of large mixed corrugated metal and timber framed building. Logs used to support porch and pile of logs in lower left of image. Alternative title from cataloger notes "Group of...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "The wolf working with the dog team - notice the size of him compared to the rest of the team. Verso also bears a circular stamp that says: "A Madsen Print. Oct 10, 1933. Chicago." Image shows a team...
Title from caption. Image shows a ditch used to transport water to a mining location. Eureka was a mining settlement established south of Rampart between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers. A telegraph station called "Glenn" was installed here in...
Title from caption. Image shows a ditch used to transport water to a mining location. Eureka was a mining settlement established south of Rampart between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers. A telegraph station called "Glenn" was installed here in...
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...
Photograph shows a shirtless man wearing a hardhat operating a Little Giant. A rainbow has formed in the misted water droplets from the pipe. Rock used as counterbalance for the nozzle partially fill the wooden...
A slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's 1548 Ptolemy; in 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and the same map plates were used for Latin editions in 1562 and 1564. Relief shown pictorially. Text on...
Brockman's house in Wiseman, 1954. This is one of those occasions when a photo printed on paper with a postcard format on the back was actually used as a postcard. Message...
"It was from this man from whom I obtained the medicine box, with the contents of which (as he told me) he could cure any ailment of any individual on the island. it had been used by a good many Angakoks before him." Note from Harold McCracken.
39 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Smith Collection, 1960s". Film shows light planes at Phillips Field in Fairbanks and the Fairbanks Aircraft Service hangar. Machinery in film, may be used to pre-heat engine, compare...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the Stevens Village classroom. Narrative reads: "Interior view of our school. Notice hanging lamp used in winter. Desks were modern and all books and equipment were furnished by the government."
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows Ron Skoog holding a rifle in front of an airplane on skis. Caption from finding aid reads "Ron Skoog, doing caribou surveys, rifle used to shoot a caribou for parasite specimen". Location is unknown.
Photograph of Old Eliza and his cabin with a dog sled visible on an elevated cache behind his cabin. Narrative in album reads: "At the right is Old Eliza's cabin with its owner in the door. The logs are to be used in the erection of an Indian...