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| |  | Agnes O'Brien of Hooper Bay and friends displaying native basket work of that village. | Baskets; Handicraft; Women; Children; Boys; Girls; Men | View of Agnes O'Brien and others displaying handmade baskets in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Photo negative number 1450-45. 1950's? Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 4". | AMRC-b85-27-1293 |
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| |  | Aleut children. | Children; Smiling; Toys; Indigenous peoples; Earthquakes; Natural disasters; Dolls; Indigenous peoples | Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
"Junior Red Cross boxes brought smiles of delight to the faces of Aleut children in the Red Cross shelter at Camp Denali while plans were being made for their return to Old Harbor. Gift boxes were received from many places in the United States, including Los Angeles and Des Moines. Above, Caroline Alexandroff displays a doll from her gift box to Patrick Andrewvitch. (ARC [American Red Cross] Photo by Wold) 64-5050."
Note also reads:
"Old Harbor's recovery from the havoc created by the Good Friday earthquake and seismic waves occupies a prominent place in the history of the American Red Cross Disaster Service.
"The Villagers, Aleut natives of Kodiak Island, fled to high ground when the waves wrecked their homes. On Saturday morning, March 28, they were ferried to Kodiak Naval Base aboard two crab boats, the Fern and the Chacon. Navy planes took them to a shelter near Anchorage.
"A month later the Aleuts were back on the island through the cooperative efforts of Red Cross, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management, the U. S. Public Health Service, and many other agencies, organizations and individuals. Red Cross and the Bureau of Indian Affairs shared the cost of the air transportation from Anchorage to Kodiak.
"On their return, the natives found snug, warm tent homes on wooden frames. The first returning group landed on May 1. Red Cross supplied tools, building materials, household essentials, food and clothing, free of charge.
"Within a few hours after their arrival, the Aleuts were hard at work, finishing the jobs started by the advance party. By Sunday, May 3, all of the natives were back in Old Harbor. That evening, as though their lives had not been disrupted by disaster, the Aleuts gathered for their traditional Russian Orthodox Easter Services." | UAF-1972-152-122 |
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| |  | Anaktuvuk Pass, 1950 | Fuelwood; Woodcutting; Dogsledding; Dog teams; Subsistence activities; Clothing & dress; Travel; Tents; Fishing & hunting gear; Sleds & sleighs; Indigenous peoples; | 66 second film clip, color/silent, of people gathering and transporting fire wood.
A woman,working in front of a semi-subterranean house, is chopping kindling; another woman appears to be setting a small snare; men are using dog sleds to transport logs; interspersed are shots of children and dog mushing. | AAF-96 |
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| |  | Here's to Alaska. | Poetry; Mountain goats; Bears; Working dogs; Dogs; Mountains; Trees; Children; Cities & towns; Streets; Dogsledding; Dog teams; Mining | Title taken from image.
Poem by Pat O'Cotter in center, framed by collage of Alaskan views.
Poem:
HERE'S TO ALASKA.
The home of the tin can and dog-
A waste of snow, ice and moss.
A grave-yard of ambitions,
A by-word for HELL,
The home of the famed double cross.
Men come here for gold, ambitious for wealth-
The stick, for they can't get away.
They dig, drink and die,
And then go to HELL
To pay for their last sucker play!
--ALASKA --
Pat O-Cotter
Photo at center top: Yakutat, Alaska.
Photo in bottom left: Seward Alaska, Fourth Ave, North.
Photo in bottom right: ...eling Co. Inc. ?o?per Creek, Alaska. | ASL-P243-2-144 |
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| | ![Da-ke-knock [Deikeenaak'w] Chief of Chichagoff [Chichagof] Island.](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&CISOPTR=125 "Da-ke-knock [Deikeenaak'w] Chief of Chichagoff [Chichagof] Island.") | Da-ke-knock [Deikeenaak'w] Chief of Chichagoff [Chichagof] Island. | Tribal chiefs | Title taken from notes on verso. Portrait of Deikeenaak'w seated in front of an American flag. He is dressed in Tlingit regalia, including a button blanket and bead work.
Verso: Died 1928. Aged about 100 years. Sitka. | ASL-Angoon-People-01; ASL-P01-0895 |
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| | ![Aleut [Unangan] hospital, White employees barracks.](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&CISOPTR=95 "Aleut [Unangan] hospital, White employees barracks.") | Aleut [Unangan] hospital, White employees barracks. | Hospitals; Relocation camps; Wooden buildings; Boardwalks | Title from verso.
Wide view of hospital grounds, covered with snow. | ASL-FunterBay-10; ASL-P01-3844 |
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| |  | Superior race theory hit in hearing, The Daily Alaska Empire, Tuesday, February 6, 1945. | Legislation; Discrimination; Race relations; Civil rights | Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from several Senators. | ASL-JuneauEmpire-February 6, 1945 |
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| | ![Kasa-an [Kasaan] Village, Indians and Canoes, Alaska.](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&CISOPTR=239 "Kasa-an [Kasaan] Village, Indians and Canoes, Alaska.") | Kasa-an [Kasaan] Village, Indians and Canoes, Alaska. | Villages; Totem poles; Canoes; Wooden buildings; Waterfronts | Title taken from image. Verso: Kaas-an Village.
Water view of a man with 2 dogs departing the village in a canoe. Other activity on the beach in background with people and canoes. Image number 48. Hand tinted. | ASL-Kasaan-10 |
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| | ![Document. No. 819. dated November 1835. [2 pages - Viewed together]](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&CISOPTR=4930 "Document. No. 819. dated November 1835. [2 pages - Viewed together]") | Document. No. 819. dated November 1835. [2 pages - Viewed together] | Correspondence; Missionaries; Missions; Orthodox churches; Documents; Clergy | ASL-MS004-2-3b-5-2
Item 5-2
Physical Description: [2]p. Front & Verso - Viewed together.
Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975
Report/covering/letter/ Veniaminov, dated 14, April 1835, Sitka, to
Meletii, Archbishop of Irkutsk. In the report, V. States that in order to
effectively teach Christianity, he has composed in Aleut language a work
entitled Short Indication of the Road to the Kingdom of Heaven and that he,
V., intended to ask Bishop's permission to print this work.
However, as the Catechism which he submitted for printing was
printed with many errors, due to the proofreader's ignorance of the Aleut
language, as the printing of his, V's, translation of the gospels has been
stopped - and he was instructed by the Synod to use the gospels in manuscript,
he is keeping the Aleut version, using it too in manuscript, and submits the
translation into Russian for Archbishop's perusal for correction and comment.
On the document (first page, top) is Archbishop's notation. "The Dean of
the seminary is to read the composition and report to me"
[also see ASL-MS004-2-3b-5 Short Indication to the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom.
and
ASL-MS004-2-3b-7 Letter by Veniaminov, Sitka, dated 18 April 1835 acknowledging receipt of copies of Aleut Catechism Document]
Collection Description:
Papers of Saint Innokentii [Ivan Veniaminov] and others from the Eastern Orthodox Church [Russian], 1835-1918
Summary of Papers of Saint Innokentii [Ivan Veniaminov]: Includes correspondence, instructions on missionary conduct, consecration and ordination papers of Innokentii, reports, memos, copybook, and Aleut translations; correspondents include: Tikhov [?], Bishop of the Aleutians and North America, Filip Kopylov, and Archimandrite Nikodim [?], Abbot of the Ascension Monastery, Irkutsk.
| ASL-MS4-02-3b-5-2 |
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| | ![Short Indication of the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom. [68 pages]](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&CISOPTR=4959 "Short Indication of the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom. [68 pages]") | Short Indication of the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom. [68 pages] | Correspondence; Documents; Missionaries; Missions; Orthodox churches; Clergy | ASL-MS004-2-3b-5
Item 5
(acc. # 10213)
Physical description: [68]p.
Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975
The following are stitched together as one booklet.
1. Title page bears the following inscription.
File
Re. Report by the Sitka priest Ivan Veniamenov, with the presentation of the composition "Short Indication of the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom", translated by him from the Aleut into the Russian language.
Began 1835, August 5.
54 [37] pages
according to .................#384.
(unreadable)
1 leaf
34cm*
2. Report/covering/letter/ Veniaminov, dated 14, April 1835, Sitka, to Meletii, Archbishop of Irkutsk. In the report, V. States that in order to effectively teach Christianity, he has composed in Aleut language a work entitled Short Indication of the Road to the Kingdom of Heaven and that he, V., intended to ask Bishop's permission to print this work.
However, as the Catechism which he submitted for printing was printed with many errors, due to the proofreader's ignorance of the Aleut language, as the printing of his, V's, translation of the gospels has been stopped - and he was instructed by the Synod to use the gospels in manuscript, he is keeping the Aleut version, using it too in manuscript, and submits the translation into Russian for Archbishop's perusal for correction and comment.
On the document (first page, top) is Archbishop's notation. "The Dean of the seminary is to read the composition and report to me"
[Article 2 titled: Document #819 dated 22 November 1835 - not in bound book see ASL-MS004-2-3b-5-2 with same title.]
3. Sewn copybook - Manuscript of 30 pages.
24 cm.
[1 leaf] 9 Title page bears the inscription: "Short Indication of the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom" composed by Priest Ivan Veniaminov. For the Aleuts in the year 1833 in Unalaska. The closest possible translation from the Aleut Language.
at bottom #99
4. Report by Archimandrite Ni'kodim, Abbot of the Ascension Monastery, Irkutskto the consistory of Irkutsk, 27, Sept. 1835. (He returns V's composition, as the letter of instruction to censure the work dated 20, August 1835 did not bear the Archbishop's blessing On verso the Archbishop's "resolution" is recorded and the notation is made that the material has been again forwarded to Nikodim 7th December.
[document #982] 5. Letter [Report] from Veniaminov, dated April 8, 1857 [1837] , Sitka to Bishop Innoketii of Irkutsk outlining the lack of action re. his composition and requesting the Bishops to permit printing.
[document #86]
1 P.
6. (Manuscript pages - short - marked 5 and 4)
22.5 cm.
6a) "Spravka" - Memo from the consistory records for Bishop's perusal re. status of the affair - Ni'kodim failed to return the manuscript after it was sent to him Dec 7, 1835.
6b) Bishop's resolution: (ordered) Archimandrite Ni'kodim to report his findings.
7. March 31, 1838. Nikodim's recommendation that Veniaminov's work be printed and the ms. entrusted to the Spiritual Censors office. On verso: Resolution of approval .
Last page (statement of number of pages)
[also see ASL-MS004-2-3b-7 Letter by Veniaminov, Sitka, dated 18 April 1835 acknowledging receipt of copies of Aleut Catechism Document.]
Collection Description:
Papers of Saint Innokentii [Ivan Veniaminov] and others from the Eastern Orthodox Church [Russian], 1835-1918
Summary of Papers of Saint Innokentii [Ivan Veniaminov]: Includes correspondence, instructions on missionary conduct, consecration and ordination papers of Innokentii, reports, memos, copybook, and Aleut translations; correspondents include: Tikhov [?], Bishop of the Aleutians and North America, Filip Kopylov, and Archimandrite Nikodim [?], Abbot of the Ascension Monastery, Irkutsk. | ASL-MS4-2-3b-5 |
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| |  | Opyt grammatika Aleutsko_Lis'evskago iazyka sviashchennika I. Veniaminova, v Unalahks. | Grammar; Orthodox churches; | Original 1846 edition of the fundemental work on the Aleut language, the Eastern (Fox Island) dialect.
Published in 1846 in St. Petersburg, Russia by the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Physical description: 237p.
File type: PDF 44.44MB | ASL-MS81-95-09 |
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| |  | Native basket weaver, 1906. | Basket making; Baskets; Weaving | Native woman and child sit on a fur rug, the woman working on a basket | ASL-P39-0062 |
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| |  | Summer fishing village, Funter Bay, Alaska, 1915. | Canneries; Employees; Fishing industry; Waterfronts; Wooden buildings; Villages | Tlingit fishing village for employees of salmon cannery; houses and canoes on beach | ASL-P45-0124 |
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| |  | Ear examination onboard the M/S Hygiene. | Health care; Mothers; Infants; Medical personnel; Medical equipment & supplies; Health care facilities; Health care personnel | Medical worker prepares to examine the ears of a child, held by mother. | ASL-P143-0279 |
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| |  | A dentist preparing to work with a boy in the dentist's chair. | Health care; Health care facilities; Medical equipment & supplies; Medical personnel; Children; Boys; Dental equipment & supplies; Dentistry | Title from verso. | ASL-P143-0368 |
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| |  | Midwife at work, Savoonga. | Midwives; Health care; Medical personnel; Interiors; Kettles | Title taken from image. Woman pouring water from a kettle. | ASL-P143-1456 |
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| |  | H.D. Catron and Aleuts who helped him shear sheep. | Sheep ranches; Sheep shearing; Ranchers; Employees; Dogs | Catron and his sheep shearers pose with two sheep dogs at Catron's sheep ranch in Chernofski Harbor, Unalaska Island | ASL-P160-5 |
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| |  | Eskimo Medicine Man, Alaska. Exorcising Evil Spirits from a sick Boy. | Shamans; Boys; Masks; Fur; Fur coats; Fur garments; Hides & skins; Boots | Title from image. Caption on side of image: "Working To Best The Devil" J.E.T.
Photographer's number 493. | ASL-P18-497 |
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| |  | Tlingit Indian basket weaver, circa 1905. | Baskets; Basket making; Footwear | Weaver works on a basket in her lap. Displayed are other baskets, a spruce root hat, and beaded fur moccasins.
Verso: This art has now nearly disappeared. Spruce roots, grasses and twisted cedar bark were used, with split spruce roots making the finest baskets. These were watertight and were used for cooking by heating rocks and dropping them into the water until boiled. | ASL-P1-051 |
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| |  | Eskimo children receiving dental work, 1955. | Dental equipment & supplies; Dentistry; Health care facilities; Medical personnel; Children; Boys; Girls | | ASL-P224-371 |
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| |  | Eskimo children receiving dental work, 1955. | Dental equipment & supplies; Dentistry; Health care facilities; Medical personnel; Children; Boys; Girls | | ASL-P224-372 |
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| |  | Eskimo children receiving dental work, 1955. | Dental equipment & supplies; Dentistry; Health care facilities; Medical personnel; Children; Boys | | ASL-P224-373 |
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| |  | Eskimo children receiving dental work, 1955. | Dental equipment & supplies; Dentistry; Health care facilities; Medical personnel; Children; Girls | | ASL-P224-374 |
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| |  | Eskimo children receiving dental work, 1955. | Dental equipment & supplies; Dentistry; Health care facilities; Medical personnel; Children; Boys | | ASL-P224-375 |
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| |  | Hoonah Native Basket Weaver. | Basket making; Baskets; Women | Title from image.
Portrait of Tlingit woman in button blanket, working on basket. Materials and water vessel are within easy reach.
Photographer's number 46N. | ASL-P226-036; ASL-Hoonah-People-04; ASL-P01-0206 |
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| |  | Salting the fur. | Seals (Animals); Fur trade; Sailors | Title taken from image. Group of men working among seals on St. Paul Island. Sailors watching in foreground. Men and small boat on beach in background. Photographer's number 80. | ASL-P27-006 |
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| |  | Richard Derendoff with a load of winter wood. | Fuelwood; Sleds & sleighs | Dogs were very utilitarian and necessary as well as used in racing. Within a few years snowmobiles replaced dogs for many people as working vehicles.
Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. | ASL-P303-050 |
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| |  | Having retrieved a set with beaver, Sidney removed his gloves to work on retrieving beaver. | Trappers; Animal traps; Dogs; Dog teams; Sleds & sleighs | The parka Sidney is wearing was made for him by his wife, Angela, from wolf skins he had acquired in a poker game with several white wolf hunters who were weathered in at Huslia.
Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. | ASL-P303-052 |
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| |  | Belkofsky Greek Catholic Church, 10/38. | Churches; Orthodox churches; Bells | Title and description taken from photographer's notes. Bell ringer at work in belfry. Photographer's number 30. | ASL-P306-0021 |
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| |  | Nome skin sewer's work room. 2/1942. | Hides & skins; Sewing | Mrs. Gray, foreman makes job record for skin sewer who will take piece work home. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 640. | ASL-P306-0562 |
