Group of men and women posing outside a building. Several of the men have on aprons and hats worn by butchers. There is a Darigold Milk box near one of the men. The building may be the one in...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of two men and a boy wearing winter gear. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Charlie Luke, Dick Williams and Archie Moses. Taken in winter village costume. Notice beaver skin caps, moose skin mittens beaded...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "I learned to go about in these canoes very well, altho not many white men care to use them. One sits on the bottom, or doubled-up on the knees as...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier witing in a notebook from the entrance of a tent. Verso reads: "His cartridge belt by his feet, Private Oliver Delorio of San Francisco takes time out during the Attu Island campaign to write a...
(3:09 min.) (10 of 28) 10. Fighter planes
About 50 P-40's (fighters) were shuttled across by the aircraft carrier "Ranger". These planes were destined to replace the worn planes in China. One plane landed hard and lost a landing gear.
Title taken from caption. "9201 -- This stereograph shows the kind of dress worn by men and women in Alaska during the summer. During the winter they adopt the dress of the natives. This consists of high boots made of seal or walrus skin,...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from caption. The following letter was written on the back of this photograph. "My dear Louise! Many thanks for your letter. Here is the way the college looked just before the snow came. The west wing, power plant and dormitory were...
Title taken from caption. >"Indian Pot-latch or Dance." Cataloguer's note: This picture captures a crowd of people cramped in a boat. The festive occasion is evident by the many ribbons and decorations on the boat, as well as the garments and...
Title taken from caption. "By long hope tradition, the church distributed toys (mostly contributed) to all the children, and also gave an adult present to each family. One year the family present was a deck of cards. (Point Hopers were...
Title taken from caption. Clipping from a publication with the caption: Four Eskimo girls near Cape Nome, Alaska. The dress of the Eskimo consists entirely of skins of seal, reindeer, bear, and fox, the first two being the most common. The...
Title taken from text. Photograph of a teamster and his team with a sledge loaded with logs at the side. Caption reads: Corporal Cavanaugh arriving from Fairbanks, 82 miles away, with supplies. The transportation problem was probably the most...
Title by cataloger. The bibs worn by the mushers suggest that this was a race. Additional note attached indicates that these photographs were taken by Mark C. Glunz, who was at the time assigned to the 171st infantry Brigade at Fort Wainwright.
Title by indexer. The Ice Carnival queen and king seated on their thrones of ice with an American flag flying. There are several other contestants seated in front of them and spectators standing to the side. Many different fur garments are worn.
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor pulling into the dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Caption also says: "The USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, a war veteran wearing a chevron." A chevron is painted on the smoke stack of the ship....
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Men can be seen on the decks of the ship as well as waiting on the docks. The United States flag is flying from the rear of the ship and a chevron is painted on...
Title from note on verso. Note reads: "AaNA Convention, Sitka, Alaska, June 1967. Centennial Purchase Year. Nurses Uniforms - 1860-1920 worn by nurses of AaNA Mary Richards, Bernadette Knight, Jean Frank, Eugenia Ohls, Doris Southall". The...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.