Allakaket & Alatna: Images

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image thumbnail Athabascan women in Allakaket. Left to right: Sarah Simon, Bessie Koyukuk's oldest daughter, and Bessie Koyukuk; large canvas tent in background Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Will Campbell, the Only white Boy on the Allenkaket River, Alaska Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau. In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on the Allenkaket River in Alaska. He is delighted with his team of six young dogs and no doubt enjoys many a long ride with them over the snow. For practical use, a team usually consists of ten or twenty dogs and is a mixture of Esquimaux dogs and dogs from the coast. The team is guided by call, a line is never used. The dogs are easily taken care of and are especially suited to the needs of the miners of that region. After a hard day's work they are fed a piece of dried dog salmon and then burying themselves in the snow, leaving only their noses stick out, they go to sleep for the night. Being very docile and sagacious, the young dogs are much enjoyed by the children as pets. These dogs were indispensable to the Yukoners in pushing their way into the interior of Alaska."Copyright, 1909, by Keystone View Company Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Ellen, Clara, and Chief Moses in Allakaket. Woman, child, and man in parkas and mukluks; Chief Moses wears a traveling parka Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Three women on river bank at Allakaket. Bessie Henry; Bessie Edwards; and Mary Samlls' [Smalls' ?] mom, Omak; Omak is wearing a caribou parka. Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Maria and Joseph Dummy in front of the old mission at Allakaket, ca. 1930s. Portrait of a couple; [Joseph was a deaf person] Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Young child in fur parka and mukluks at Allakaket. Small child on a path through snow Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Two children near mission at Allakaket, Alaska. Girls in outdoor clothing; one wearing a kuspuk with fur hood; snow in background Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Parishioners outside church in Allakaket. Individuals who have been identified, front row, left to right: unidentified., Sarah Simon with loaded sled , Helen Bifelt (slightly behind), Sarah Simon with loaded sled ., Olivia Ned, Sarah Simon with loaded sled . girl (slightly behind), Sarah Simon with loaded sled . boy, old Thomas' daughter Bessie (slightly behind), old Thomas' son Mark, old Thomas' son Luke, Sarah Simon with loaded sled . toddler bending over, Susie Williams (behind toddler wearing scarf). Second row: Sarah Simon with loaded sled . boy, Stephen Bergman, Edward Bergman, Sarah Simon with loaded sled . girl, Sarah Simon with loaded sled . boy, Sarah Simon with loaded sled . girl, Bessie Koyukuk, Sarah Simon, Cora Nictune, Bessie Edward. Back row: Edwin Simon, Frank Tobuk Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Little Mary and her children, Allakaket. Athabaskan woman with her three children: a girl, a boy, and a baby Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Tiluqtuq and her son, Allakaket. Woman and a man, Akinaluq[k?], outside; snow in background Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Akpik and Napoleon and their children, Allakaket. Children, left to right: Janet (on Akpik's back), Clara, and Rosie Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Miss Thompson and Miss Hill in Sunday dresses. Two women in front of white canvas wall tent near the Allakaket mission Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Church mission, St. John’s in the Wilderness, Allakaket. Log church with bell tower, fenced garden, and other buildings in background Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Allakaket group picture, circa 1908. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Billy Bergman, Edward Bergman (in front of Billy), Ceza Bergman holding Louie, Old Chief Moses, Henry Moses, and Lucy Moses. Billy and Ceza were Johnson's real parents, but after they lost two boys, Johnson was adopted in accordance with local custom. Johnson's adopted parents were Henry and Lucy. Ceza and Henry were brother and sister. Tony and Beatus Moses were Lucy and Henry's real sons. Taken in Allakaket about 1908, probably by missionaries. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Athabaskan parents and child in rowboat on Koyukuk River. Kitty and Johnny Oldman and a small girl, probably a daughter, in a boat at Allakaket Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Alatna Hills, near Allakaket. View looking toward the hills from the St. John's in the Wilderness mission; canoe in foreground on river Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Three men in canoes on Koyukuk River. Left to right: Frank Simon, Edward Bergman, and Lee Simon in birch bark canoes. Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Miss Hill and Miss Kay in the mission boat. Profile view of two women, from Allakaket mission, motoring on the Koyukuk in a long, narrow skiff Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Church mission, St. John’s in the Wilderness, Allakaket. Dog in front of old mission house <br> "The porch on the back of the mission house was a sleeping porch for men who worked at the mission" Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Church mission, St. John’s in the Wilderness, Allakaket. Old mission house, replaced by two-story mission house in the 1920s Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Detroit Arctic Expedition dog team, leaving Allakaket. Title from verso <br> Full verso reads, "One of Capt. Wilkins teams, Detroit Arctic Expedition, leaving Allakaket going north" <br> Thirteen dogs, two sleds, and two men on skis Alexander Malcolm Smith Photograph Collection, ca. 1920s. ASL-PCA-136;
image thumbnail Archdeacon Stuck & Walter Harper. Title from caption on Album."Archdeacon Stuck & Walter Harper at the Allakaket. March 1917".[Walter Harper was the Archdeacon's protégé and his companion on journeys throughout the Alaskan wilderness. Stuck wrote: "Have I made memorable journeys? - I made them largely by his eyes and ears, his quick intelligence, his coolness and splendid self-reliance in times of stress or danger, his resourcefulness in emergency". At age 19, Harper became a member of the 1913 conquest of Denali by the Hudson Stuck party. Harper had been the first person to stand on the summit of North America's highest peak. He died in October 1918 at age 25. He and his wife, nurse Frances Wells Harper, married by the Archdeacon only six weeks earlier, were en route to Seattle when the steamer Princess Sophia got caught in a heavy snow.] Frederick B. Drane Collection;
image thumbnail Anne Edwards and Elma Sam. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Anne Edwards and Elma Sam in front of Oscar Nictune's house in Alatna by Wallace Nictune in 1943. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Amelia Hill, F. Pioneer Home, Sept 1974. Title from verso. Image shows an elderly woman wearing a visor and sweater cardigan. Biographical information from the Amelia Hill Photograph Collection at the Alaska State Library states, "Amelia Hill was the resident nurse for the Episcopal Church Mission at St. John's-in-the-Wilderness, Allakaket, Alaska." She worked at the mission from the early 1920's until her retirement in 1953. Early Day Alaskans Collection;
image thumbnail Allakaket, Alaska from the air. Aerial view of Allakaket, Alaska, on Koyukuk River, during Dr. Milo Fritz's trip in area. After his trip, Dr. Fritz wrote "A Voyage on the Yukon and its Tributaries" in The Alaskan Churchman (v. 56, no. 4, Dec. 1961) describing his journey. From verso: "Dr. Fritz at Allekaket [sic]." June 1961. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10". AMRC. Ward Wells Collection;

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