Title taken from sign on photo. "Mortice 51 picas(?) make 51 picas wide. Do not outline heads." Additional writing on the back reads: "From book outline series, AGC use of planes 1930. Carson and O'Connor. Western engraving & colortype Co. The...
Photograph of Alma Shavings of Mekoryuk. Identification provided by Muriel Amos of Mekoryuk and verified by Lillian Shavings (granddaughter) of Anchorage, Alaska.
Title from accompanying notes. "26 March. Approaching Dawson Creek". View from the south of Dawson Creek, B.C. Wire fences line the road and in the distance there is a Motel sign and a Quonset hut.
Description of community from 1932 report: "Hyder is entirely a mining town whose growth depends upon the restoration of the value of silver. Its population is made up of about 30 families, children, and the remainder consists of prospectors;...
Postcard caption: Mollie Walsh, the wonder girl of White Pass Trail. Alone, and without help in the winter of 1897-8 she ran a tent road-house and fed and lodged the wildest and most persistent men Alaska ever saw and remained as clean morally as...
Title from image Thirteen people stand around cross, honoring the eleven people whose lives were lost when the KARLUK was carried off and crushed by ice
Verso: President Harding and party leaving the Arctic Brotherhood, a fraternal organization whose motto is "No Boundary Line Here." Camp Skagway #1, 1889. The Arctic Brotherhood conferred their degree on the President 7/30/23
The man wears regalia featuring bear designs; he holds a rattle in one hand and, in the other, the Kaagwaantaan Bear Staff Kuchein (Martin White) of the KookhĂtaan or "Box House People" in Sitka, with his wife Yaast'ooch whose clan was...