Title from image. Photograph of a fish camp showing canoes and tents. Narrative in photo album reads: "In summer Indians leave villages & go up & down river to suitable fishing sites."
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...
(9:56 min.) (06 of 09)
River conditions
villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush...
57 second film clip, black & white with audio. The clip shows damage to four small villages on Kodiak Island by the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio relates personal experiences of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "'Operation Helping Hand' helped the small villages with medicine, food, and clothing following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". A helicopter passenger, wearing a warm flight suit and bunny...
Title taken from accompanying notes. "Operation 'Helping [Hand]' helping the small villages with medicine, food, and clothing following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64".
Title from verso. "[All aboard for school. From the Alaska arctic, nearly 600 students are gathered from 40 remote villages and fish camps, each fall to fly to Fairbanks and Juneau, heading for high schools and colleges.] "Students boarding...
"(Alaska Visitors Association Photo) "EVERYTHING FLIES IN ALASKA -- The 49th State of Alaska is most air-minded. Everybody and everything travels by air. Here fresh fruit is being loaded aboard...
The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Title taken from verso. View of Eskimo man standing next to boat made of skins at Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "The Eskimo hunter in Alaska's polar zone spend much of their time searching the rugged arctic coast for seal, walrus, polar...
Title taken from verso. Group of children at Holy Cross Mission school gathered for outdoor photograph. Also from verso: "They came from villages all over western Alaska taken about 1944." 1944. Original photograph size: 3" x 4".
Group of ivory carvings made at Nunivak Island, Alaska, including figurines (one of walrus), letter openers decorated with seal figures, and crochet hook decorated with fish figure. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled]...
Title from color postcard caption Text on verso: "An Alaska Coastal Amphibian leaves Ketchikan on a scheduled flight in Southeast Alaska. Coastal [Airlines] operates throughout the entire panhandle area, serving airports and seaports as well...
Governor Swineford collected the photographs during the 1887 voyage he and his wife, Minnie Swineford, took aboard the Thetis. Included are views of the Thetis and its crew,Alaska Natives from various regions of the State of Alaska, seal...
These two volumes illustrate an 1897 expedition up the Taku River by members of the Yukon Mining, Trading and Transport Company in the summer of 1897. The expedition was led by P.I. Packard who proposed to build a railroad to Dawson via the Taku...
Contents: Letter of transmittal. Testimony of Chief Kah-du-shan from Wrangel; Chief Johnson (Yash-noosh) from Juneau; Chief Koogh-see fom Hoonah; Chief Kah-ea-tchiss from Hoonah; Chief Shoo-we-Kah from Juneau; Chief Ah-na-tlash from Taku;...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.