Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
Relief shown by shading. Shows a portion of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Arctic Canada, including the locations of Eskimo tent-rings and winter houses and the Fram's winter quarters. Mounted on paper.
Title by indexer. Men appear to be working on a street with a tracklaying vehicle close to a bridge; other men are gathered around watching. Sign above the bridge reads "Mecca"; a sign at far left reads "[Drug] Store", and a sign in the...
This is an above ground mine, presumably a gold mine. Miners can be seen in an open gravel pit with a variety of hand tools such as shovels, picks, ladders.
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows men working on an open cut at a gold mine on Pedro Creek. Caption at bottom reads: "Open cut work on [Pedrow Cr.] C4".
Title from note on verso: "Eskimo women R. R. work crew of Cantwell section won awards for best maintained section." In an e-mail dated 22 May 2013, Leann Wagerle mentions that these women are Athabascan, not Eskimo. Crediting her mother,...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption. Photograph of a man at a sewing machine outside a log building. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is John Dummy doing some repairing before starting on a hunting trip. His wife, the nice 'Old Eliza,' and he did not...
Title from verso. Photograph of an American mop-up squad clearing a Japanese gun emplacement. Verso reads: "Moving forward cautiously, the American mop-up squad examines this Jap [ Japanese ] dougout [sic] with makeshift, tent-like...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing a Japanese gun emplacement. Verso reads: "Attu -- Guns in hand, a mop-up squad moves in to clean up this Jap [ Japanese ] gun emplacement on the west arm of Holtz Bay. The two Japs [...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...