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Box PCA 262

 Container

Contains 62 Results:

Every year ships coming North have to work through ice, taking chances to get through to the places they want to go. This is the sailing vessel S.S. HOLMES which carry our freight from Seattle to Barrow. This picture was taken around midnight just as the sun was setting at Barrow.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-51
Scope and Contents

[Distant view of S.S. Holmes from shore at Barrow; sun setting at midnight.] Fading print.

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

My two Leaders, male and female.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-52
Scope and Contents

[two dogs seated on snowy ground; other dogs, behind on right]

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

This will tell better than words how the ice can pile on top of each other up to thirty to one hundred feet.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-53
Scope and Contents

[Ship behind ice except for tip of bow & tops of 4 tall masts. May be the S.S HOLMES.] Fading print.

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

A mother has to carry her baby on her back inside of her parki. The baby can be seen if looked at closely.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-54
Scope and Contents

[Young mother wearing cloth parka with baby on back.]

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

Both men and women dance at the same time, but they are not allowed to touch one another.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-55
Scope and Contents

[Eskimo men and women dancing outdoors; all wearing parkas.] Fading print.

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

A Snowy Owl caught in one of my traps which I set out for a fox.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-56
Scope and Contents

[Male Snowy Owl on snow with the left foot caught in metal trap anchored to ground; legs are completely covered in feathers.] Fading print.

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

Walrus shot dead on the edge of the ice

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-57
Scope and Contents

[men and boat in background]

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

The head of my second whale being hauled on the ice by means of tackles.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-58
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Most of the photographs were taken and captioned by Dave Brower. They depict Barrow events, whaling, hunting, Eskimo culture, the Brower family and friends and seven photographs of Charles and Anne Lindbergh with their airplane at Barrow, 1931.

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

Mrs. Lindbergh in her cockpit of their plane. When they first arrived at Banow

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-59
Scope and Contents

[at Barrow; very close view of body of plane with woman in second cockpit opening] Fading print.

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s

This is what is called the whale bone, but really it is the teeth of whale.

 Item — Box: PCA 262
Identifier: PCA0262-60
Scope and Contents

[people on right, working on whale, with baleen spread out and up]

Dates: circa 1930s
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 262, David Brower Photograph Collection, circa 1930s