Allakaket & Alatna: Images

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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 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 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 Allakaket Missionary. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. One of Johnson's older brothers, either Edward or Louie, with an unidentified missionary. Taken in Allakaket before 1915 by an unknown photographer. Bertha Moses 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;
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 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 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 At the Allakaket. Title taken from caption on Album. "At the Allakaket - E. Ridgeway & her dogs. Taking the missionaries out for a ride". Frederick B. Drane Collection
image thumbnail At the Allakaket. Title taken from caption on Album. "At the Allakaket - E. Ridgeway & her dogs. Taking the missionaries out for a ride". See also UAF-1991-46-526 & 527. Frederick B. Drane Collection
image thumbnail At the Allakaket. Title taken from caption on Album. "At the Allakaket - E. Ridgeway & her dogs. Taking the missionaries out for a ride". Frederick B. Drane Collection
image thumbnail At the Allakaket. Title taken from caption on Album. "At the Allakaket - E. Ridgeway & her dogs. Taking the missionaries out for a ride". Frederick B. Drane Collection
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 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 Beach scene at "Bear Camp" way up the Alatna River. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. A beach scene at "Bear Camp" way up the Alatna River in September, 1949. The seining set is hanging in the background and on the beach are the medium-sized whitefish divided into four piles for the four families that had been fishing together. The boat in the foreground belonged to Frank Tobuk; the one in the background to Frank and Elma Sam. Photo by Johnson Moses. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Beaded Bag Doubled piece of smoked hide with folded "neck" sewn with d-ring inside. One side has dark brown and light orange beads in a square shape, other side has solid white beading with red, heart-shaped flowers with "silver" centers; edging of doubled brown/orange beads. 9.9 cm long including ring, 6.8 cm diameter. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Beaded Bag Doubled piece of smoked hide with folded "neck" sewn with d-ring inside. One side has dark brown and light orange beads in a square shape, other side has solid white beading with red, heart-shaped flowers with "silver" centers; edging of doubled brown/ Ethnology;
image thumbnail Bergman family. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Back row: Louis Bergman, Ceza Bergman, packing Isabelle (?), Billy Bergman, Edward Bergman. Front row: Chris Bergman, Jessie Bergman. Taken about 1919 or 1920 in Allakaket probably by one of the missionaries. Chris Bergman identified by visiting elders in November, 2010. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Bergman Moses showing his cowboy boot. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Bergman Moses (showing his cowboy boot), Barbara Moses, Cora Moses, Kathleen Moses, and Virginia Moses. Wildfred Evans's warehouse on the left and his house on the right. Taken in Allakaket in 1956 by Bertha Moses. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Bergman, Johnson, and Cora Moses Maguire. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Bergman, Johnson, and Cora Moses Maguire. Taken at Alatna in April 1952 just before Virginia Moses was born. At that time the family had moved into a tent after spending the winter in Oscar Nictune's house. Photo by Bertha Moses. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Bertha Moses at her desk in the Allakaket Clinic. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Bertha Moses at her desk in the Allakaket Clinic where she served for many years as village health aide. Taken in the early 1980s. Photographer unknown. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Bertha Moses holding Kathleen Moses. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Elma Sam, Clara Sam, Virginia Moses Ned, and Bertha Moses holding Kathleen Moses. Taken in Allakaket in April of 1954 probably by Johnson Moses. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Bessie Edwards, David Tobuk, and Cora Nictune. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Bessie Edwards, David Tobuk, and Cora Nictune, all brothers and sisters. Taken in Alatna. Oscar Nictune's house is probably in the background. Taken probably in the late 1920's by an unknown photographer. Bertha Moses Collection;
image thumbnail Big Ice on the Allenkaket River, Alaska Title taken from caption. "11561 -- (7) Here are a couple of prospectors playing hide-and-seek in the midst of massive blocks of ice which have been left upon the banks of the Allenkaket River by the receding waters. The blocks exceed in thickness the height of the men, and constitute an impressive suggestion of the extreme and continued cold necessary for their production. Next are prospectors who would reach the North Pole, and bring it home - if it were made of gold." Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Big Susie holding Johnson's sister Celia. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Big Susie holding Johnson's sister Celia, who died when she was quite small. Taken in Allakaket before 1915 probably by one of the missionaries. Bertha Moses Collection;

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