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)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
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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Bering Sea playground

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