Title by cataloger. Photograph of two women sewing bark on a birch bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Next as shown below, the women sew the pieces of birch together, sewing over and over. For thread they use the small roots of...
One minute 30 second, black & white/silent film clip. Images include travel on the Alaska Railroad from the Fairbanks railroad station, travel on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad using a speeder, and views of Chitina.
42 second, color/silent, film clip of women fishing through the ice. First the hole is dug and cleared of slush, using a chisel and an ice scoop, then the women sit and jig for fish using a hand-line.
31 second, color/silent, film clip of processing and preserving salmon along the Yukon River. Women, using ulus and knives, are cutting fish for drying. A man, using what appears to be a spear, tosses fish into a hole, probably to prepare...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy using a chainsaw on a fallen tree on his property at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, circa 1977-1978. The photographer is unidentified.
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy using the Alaska Territorial Civil Defense telephone that was installed at the Pomeroys' homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska while her husband, Harold Pomeroy, served...
Title taken from verso. View of dock at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, constructed using beached barges, with crane at left and men walking along beach at right. 1970's. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Group of men using the railroad track and a cart with a dog team to haul supplies north from Seward, Alaska. Railroad ties lay by the side of the tracks. 1912-1915. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/4" x 3 1/4".
Relief shown by hachures. "Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." "Using information from Hudson Bay Comps. M.S.S. Parry, Franklin, Beechey, Graab &c." No. 72 of A series of maps, modern and...
Title from caption. Image shows a field of tall grain. Cut grain is shown in the foreground. Four men are standing in the field on the left side of the image and two men are using some type of equipment to the right near the center of the...
Title from caption. Image shows two men seated on horse-drawn reapers in a field. One reaper is harnessed to two horses and the other is harnessed to one horse. A third un-manned machine sits farther back in the field. The men appear to be...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "2 col. x 24 PICA. p. 2 - OIL. "Capt. Wm. Fisken." 55." Verso stamped "Alyeska Pipeline. 5312. Steve McCutcheon" and stamped with the date Jan 16, 1975. Image shows a man standing at a map of Prince William...
Title from verso. Two men using a sawhorse to hand-mill lumber. One man is standing on top of the saw horse. The men are standing in a clearing near a forest with snow-capped mountains in the background. Photo may have been taken by...