A stern wheeler is pushing a barge on a wide river believed to be the Yukon. The landscape in the background is very flat. Other photographs in the Reed collection, indicate this is the Yukon River in 1920. See "Rainy Pass...
Netro, Hannah (maker). The case is 47" long, without fringes. The top band is 5 in. wide with solid beadwork and a white background. The main flower design is in shades of blues, reds and greens. Curved floral designs fill rest of band with brown...
Netro, Hannah (maker). The case is 47" long, without fringes. The top band is 5 in. wide with solid beadwork and a white background. The main flower design is in shades of blues, reds and greens. Curved floral designs fill rest of band with brown...
Swan, Martha (maker). Purse made from the necks of loons. The top border is 9 cm wide and made from bleached and cured seal skin. It wraps inside and the purse is lined with yellow taffeta. The opening to the bag folds so that there are creases on...
Material: Ivory Harpoon Weight, decorated, with a large drill hole at the base that is 4cm long and 1.1cm wide. Piece is 7.4cm long and 4.5cm wide at the base. Several engraved lines decorate the piece. Culture: Punuk
Hunters pose with a wide variety of game after the second annual hunt in Seward, Alaska. The following men appear in the photograph: Front row from left to right: Elgin Vaughan, George Sexton, Claude Matson, Frank Cotter, Anton Eide, W. R....
Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
Caption: President Elect John F. Kennedy poses at the door of his Georgetown home with Alaska's two Senators: E. L. Bartlett, center, and Ernest Gruening, right, after a visit.
Photograph with the caption: Truman Congratulates Newcomer--former President Harry S. Truman congratulates a new Senator form the nations's newest state-- Ernest Gruening, of Alaska, at the Capitol, January 7, 1959. Truman, A former Senator...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows two buildings in a grassy field. One of the buildings appears to be a farmhouse with a dormer window and possibly a bay window. Decorative trees are planted in front of this house. A wide door is...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows a building in a grassy field, possibly a garage. Trees surround the back of the field behind the building. A wide door to the building is open and a piece of farming equipment is visible to the right...
Title from verso. Verso also stamped: "P.L. Tait. Printing & Enlarging. Quesnel, B.C." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the stern wheeler Susie at Eagle, Alaska. The narrative in the album states: "The boat below is the 'Susie,' an oil burner, which carried us from Dawson to Stevens Village. This view was taken at Eagle, the...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the Yukon River. Narrative in the photo album reads: "At the right is the view as seen from our front porch. The Yukon is practically a mile wide at this point. There was a steep bank between us and the...
Title from photo album. Photograph of Lawyer Rivenburg in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "These canoes weigh but fifty to sixty pounds and are from fifteen to eighteen feet long and about eighteen inches to two feet...
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...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...