Bering Sea playground
Collection Name
San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Aleutian Islands Photographs, 1942-1948
Identifier
UAF-1970-11-101
Title
Bering Sea playground
Description
Title from verso .Alternate title from verso : "Navy ship resupplies Pribilof Islands and brings back seal skins(Nine of 16) "Children swing as other children look on from a boat landing .Verso reads : "Nine of 16 . Bering Sea Playground -- Improvised swings , hung from the crossarm of a St . George Island light pole , keep these Aleut native children happy . Big attaction which brought them to the boat landing was the annual discharge of stateside cargo by men of the USS Thuban , whose landing craft kept shuttling back and forth to the ship night and day .File number 706059 Hold for release to newspapers on Sunday , September 12 , 1948 "
Creator
United States. Navy
Subject.TGM
Swings Utility poles Children playing Boats Indigenous peoples
Subject.Local
Alaska Natives--Aleutian Islands--Unangan (Aleut)
Corporate Name
Thuban (Ship)
Location
Saint George (Alaska)
Region
Western Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Time Period
1939 to 1959
Date
09/12/1948
Type
Collection Image (Photographs)
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Holding Institution
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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