Query: Alaska
Tip top of the Earth: Arctic Alaskan Eskimo Educational Series
Creators:
Van Valin, William B., 1878-
Dates:
1912-1918
Size:
10 Film reels (black-and-white silent; 6,950 feet, 35mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1986.05
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Edited film shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The film, that later toured in a film-lecture series by Van Valin, is known under the main title TIP TOP OF THE EARTH: Alaskan Eskimo Educational …

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Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection, Photogravure Plates
Creators:
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
Dates:
circa 1910
Size:
2 cu. ft. (4 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 01-014
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of 76 photogravure plates from the Harriman Alaska Series, a 14-volume publication detailing the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. The plates were made from photographs and drawings made during the Expedition. Prominent photographers include C. Hart Merriam and Edward S. Curtis.

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Peratrovich family papers
Creators:
Peratrovich, Roy, Sr., 1908-1989
Peratrovich, Elizabeth, 1911-1958
Dates:
1929-2001
bulk 1939-2001
Size:
0.42 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.078
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Peratrovich family papers include correspondence, personal papers, and newsclippings related to civil rights work done by Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich in Alaska in the mid-twentieth century.

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Joseph-Fidèle Bernard photographs from Alaska
Creators:
Bernard, Joseph-Fidèle, 1878-1972
Dates:
1921
Size:
11 Glass plate negatives
11 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.132
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Joseph-Fidèle Bernard photographs from Alaska consists of negatives taken by Bernard in 1921 among the Inupiaq (Alaska Inupiat Eskimo) and Siberian Yu'pik communities. Bernard was an artic trader, trapper and captain of the schooner "Teddy Bear."

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Prescott M. M. Jones papers
Creators:
Jones, Prescott M. M., 1904-1981
Dates:
1932-1976
Size:
1 Linear foot
Collection ID:
AAA.jonepres
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Letters, 2 diaries, a subject file, art works, printed material, and photographs primarily concern Jones' work for the WPA artist project in Alaska.

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in AAA.jonepres for Alaska
MS 7308 Map of Bethel, Alaska
Dates:
1979
Size:
1 Sheet
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7308
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
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in NAA.MS7308 for Alaska
Copies of Stephen Gambaro photographs of Akhiok, Alaska
Creators:
Gambaro, Stephen
Dates:
circa 1942
Size:
35 Copy prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R80-33
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Stephen Gambaro while stationed with the United States military in Alaska during World War II. They include images of buildings, boats, native Alaskans, United States military personnel, and scenery in and around Akhiok, a small city on Kodiak Island in Alaska.

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Adrienne DeArmas photographs of Tlingit village in Klukwan, Alaska
Creators:
DeArmas, Adrienne
Dates:
1993
Size:
111 Color slides
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.94-19
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Images of streets, houses, and other buildings in Klukwan, a Tlingit village in Alaska, made on August 6, 1993. According to a description by photographer Adrienne DeArmas, the images form "a panoramic view of the Tlingit Village in Klukwan, Alaska, U.S.A. . . .The slides begin on the left-hand side of the road which …

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MS 4616 Guy F. Cameron Photographs
Creators:
Cameron, Guy F.
Dates:
ca. early 1900's
Size:
20 Prints
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4616
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Relate to Eskimos and/or Aleuts, and Tlingit and Athapaskan Indians in Alaska, mainly signed by Guy F. Cameron.

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Geographical Categories: Alaska
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
circa 1880-1927
Size:
0.51 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 2 folders, 1 map case folder.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.02.Alaska
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Alaska forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.2: Geographical Categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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