Title from accompanying material. The caption (written in white over the light wood of the deck) reads: "Eskimo Women showing their manner of carrying their Young. Cape Prince of Wales Alaska". The photo is also marked "Nowell" in the lower...
Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...
Title from caption: "St Matthews Hospital, Fairbanks, Alaska." Photographs shows women sitting outside of St. Matthews Hospital in summer. Some of the women may be nurses. They are surrounded by plants, including nasturtiums, and some sort of...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a group of young women posing for a group photograph on some stairs. They are all wearing matching caps, dresses and aprons.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a group of women all dressed very nicely. They are standing in front of a log building. They may be members of Order of the Eastern Star.
Title taken from accompanying note. L-R: Jennie Johnson, Edith Ryan, and Mrs. Wallie Cathcart. All three women are wearing skirt suits, a style which emerged at the end of the 19th century and became identified with the "New Woman", the young,...
Title by indexer. Caption reads: "Eskimo Women and 'Mickaninny's Nook' Teller, Alaska." Photo is signed "Nowell". This group of people is tending to multiple children. Both children and older Natives are dressed in traditional native wardrobe,...
Title from accompanying material.
These Native Alaskan women are leading reindeer by leash near an area of tundra cover in snow. They are wearing skin parkas and the Native Alaskan style mukluk.
Title taken from caption. View of two women holding baskets that are in the process of being made. There are several finished baskets on display at the feet of the women. Photograph was most likely taken in southeast Alaska. Photograph taken...
Two women in hats bend over another woman's head while drying her hair on the steps of the Holland House in Seward, Alaska. Mrs. Burns is seated on the steps and Florence is in the white dress. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 2 1/2" x 4 1/8".
Title taken from caption. Two women, one holding an infant, pose on the front porch of a two story building at 221 Sixth Avenue in Seward, Alaska. Also from caption: "221 6th Ave." 1908? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original photograph size: 4 1/4"...
Winter scene of a man hitching up a team of dogs in a residential area of Seward, Alaska. Two women and another man stand nearby and a house stands in background. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 3/16" x 3 3/8".
Ruth Pederson with two of her children and and the back of an unidentified women near Seward, Alaska. Resurrection Bay is in the background. ca. 1905-1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Two women and a boy sit on the edge of Lowell Creek in Seward, Alaska. Seward Light and Power Company headgate is visible in the distance. From verso: "Headgate S.L. & Power to Seward." 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 3/16".
Dog team and sled stand in front of M.B. Holland's house in Seward, Alaska. Women and children wait for musher to give them a ride. 1905-1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".