Title taken from caption. View of new pussy willow growth, growing horizontally in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Vertical growth has been sandblasted by ash, blowing in the wind, and destroyed. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. An Alaska willow, sandblasted clean on one side after the Katmai eruptions, with growth only from buds on the other side. Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during...
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Corduroy off willow scrub dragged from distant river banks, laid on tramped down runway are no avail. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 728.
Kayak frame and willow tent poles are stored on rack. These racks were used to hang caribou skins on for drying in the sun, and to store food on in the winter to keep it away from the dogs. Occasionally polar bears were still able to get into the...
Spring camping scene. Location unknown. Possibly the gravel spit leading out to Point Barrow, because of water on both sides. Or Nuvuk or Pigniq because of the higher ground in the background. Tents lined up so that when cooking fire soot would not...
Automobile beneath highway sign. Sign in image: Chitina-Fairbanks Military Highway; Constructed and Maintained by the Alaska Road Commission. Caption: Photographed by E.L. Fisher. Beginning of the Edgerton Cutoff of the Richardshon Highway...
Title from verso. At Wasilla the President climbed into the cab and received some instruction from Engineer Brayford before taking the throttle for the 26 mile run into Willow. Pres. Harding in cab of #618 engine.
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
Shallow birch bark with spruce root sewing and willow rimrod all the way around with 2 willow side braces. No trim on back but has leather band attached at lower rim. Two sets of leather tying straps attached to band - trimmed with blue rick rack...
Large, folded birch bark container found floating in the Ambler River. Willow rim rods and lashing of spruce root, and a rope, possibly cotton, tied along one of the long sides of the basket, possibly a handle. 20cm x 40cm x 28cm.
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; d - 6 1/4" across or 9cm x 16cm x 13cm
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; b - 4 7/8" across or 6.5cm x 12.5cm x 9.5cm
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; A - 4 1/4" across 5.5cm x 11cm x 7.5cm
Round birch bark basket made with the woven technique, light and dark-colored bark placed diagonally along the sides, alternating direction creating a woven look. Lashed along the top and bottom edges with willow, which is wrapped in spruce root....
Round birch bark basket, made with strips of birch bark, woven together along the sides. The walls of the basket are formed by placing the bark in diagonal strips, with the light side going in one direction, the dark in the opposite, and weaving...
Deep, oval shaped birch bark container. Double layered and sewn with split spruce root. Rim rods of green willow branches. 6" h x 11" l x 7 1/2" w. OR 12.5 cm x 28.5 cm x 19.5 cm.
12/6/2011: In the paper file the "place" is listed as...