Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...
Walter L Fisher was the Secretary of the Interior from 1911 to 1913, under President Taft. In 1911 he visited Alaska as part of the process of determining the future route of the Alaska Railroad. He was accompanied by his son Walter T. Fisher, who...
View of painting by Howard Rock depicting men hunting whale from umiak near Point Hope, Alaska. From verso: "Howard Rock hanging at the Allen Rock coffee shop at Pt. Hope. Howard painted this exactly as his brother, Allen Rock (who got the huge...
View of muskox near U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex at Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, with beach in background. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitle] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard...
View of memorial stone to Will Rogers and Wiley Post who died during an airplane crash at Barrow, Alaska. Inscriptions on memorial reads: "Will Rogers and Wiley Post, 'America's ambassadors of good will,' ended life's flight here August 15, 1935....
View of a statue of a Kodiak bear sitting in front of the Kodiak Hotel in Kodiak, Alaska. The plaque reads "Presented to the city of Kodiak by Alf Madsen in memory of Charles Madsen who pioneered Kodiak bear hunting". From caption: "50's". 1950's.
View of a statue of a Kodiak bear placed in front of the Kodiak Hotel in Kodiak, Alaska. The plaque reads "Presented to the city of Kodiak by Alf Madsen in memory of Charles Madsen who pioneered Kodiak bear hunting". From caption: "50's". 1950's.
View from above. A large crowd of men who fill the street. A small girl in the center of the image. Sign on a building: Sheet Metal Works, Plumbing, Heating, Roofing, Oil burners, A.M. Geyer, Phone 145. Photographer's number 3.
Verso: Wedding party - John Brynteson (seated in lg chair) - (3 Lucky Swedes, Nome) Accompanying letter: Enclosed in a negative and print of the wedding party of John Brynteson, one of the "3 Lucky Swedes" of Nome fame. The marriage (1902)...
Verso: Russ Hart (L), former station manager for the Federal Aviation Agency at Nome receives a retirement certificate from Virgil Knight who represented Allen D. Hulen, the FAA Assistant Administrator for Alaska. Hart completed 30 years of...
Verso: Mr. Eugene Farland operates the Air Ground Console in the new Federal Aviation Agency Flight Service Station, at Nome, which was dedicated last Saturday. This was a feature of the Midnight Sun Festival. Among those who visited the new...
Verso: Delegate E.L. Bartlett of Alaska aboard the USS Midway, gets a good look at the Navy in action during recent Atlantic Fleet Operations. With Mr. Bartlett are Capt. A.K. Morehouse (left) and Commander H. L. Miller who is a native Alaskan...