Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Up ahead, a lumber rig which had jackknifed in the soft shoulder and was blocking the ALCAN highway. Occured before we reached Canadian Customs at Beaver Creek. View is from...
Title taken from caption. The buildings identified on the back of the photograph are as follows: The Men's Dormitory is located on the very right. The building with the flag is the main College; the small building in front of it is identified...
Three cars are lined up outside a house in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is examining the third car, a jeep. The middle car was President Warren G. Harding's touring car when he visited Valdez, Alaska. From caption: "The car in the...
Title taken from label on matting. View of building originally built as Russian bishop's residence, office, and chapel, which later became part of Sitka National Historical Park. Sign in yard reads: "Russian mission, 1842." Original label, crossed...
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867.
Made: Russia
Used: St. Michael
Found: Unalaska
Culture: Russian
Description: iron; wood; brass
Descriptive Narrative: Small cannon labeled "Russian cannon from St. Michael". Iron barrel is 36" long x approx. 4-1/2"...
Title taken from creator's notes. The notes read: "If you overlap slide 30 and slide 28 (1999-204-112 and 110) you can see that it is a continuation to the west down the street at Ladd Field. However, Cecil is not able to identify the...
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...
Back row: Billy Bergman, Ceza Bergman, one of their children, but can't be identified. Front row: Edward and Louie Bergman, but can't tell which is which. Taken in Allakaket,...
Title from caption. Photograph of a fish wheel near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish, specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish wheels, two of which...
Title from image. Photograph of a fishwheel on the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish...
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...
Title from caption. Photograph of the cabin that the Rivenburgs lived and taught in after the school house burnt down. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is the cabin in which we lived after our fire. Where the log projects was a...
Title from caption. Photograph of Sam the cat on the Rivenburg's roof in Rampart. Narrative in photo album reads: "Picture on the roof of the back entrance to our kitchen in Rampart. Sam lived on whole raw rabbits which I shot with a '22'...