Allakaket & Alatna: Images

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Thumbnail Object Title Description Collection
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;
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 Kids in front of mission garden, Allakaket. Left to right: Bessie William; Sarah Simon; Walter Koyukuk, Grafton Koyukuk; one of Putu Hope's daughters; and an unidentified boy Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Gold panning on the upper Allenkakat River. Title drawn from verso Prospector uses gold pan at river's edge next to skiff, loaded with gear Note: Allenkakat is a variation of the name for the Alatna River, which flows into the Koyukuk River at Allakaket Claude Hobart Photograph Collection, 1898-99. ASL-PCA-425-6
image thumbnail Sarah Simon with loaded sled, Allakaket, Alaska. Woman in hooded parka stands on runners behind sled; dog stretches out on top of sled load; log buildings in background Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Koyukuk family with loaded sled in Allakaket, Alaska. Annie and Jimmy Koyukuk's family; left to right: Walter, unidentified daughter (in sled), Jimmy, Annie, and Grafton Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Mrs. Big Jim Nagukluk. Native woman in fur garments and mukluks outside a log building with sod roof, probably in Wiseman Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Woman carrying child on her back, Allakaket. Unidentified individuals in front of mission garden Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Group portrait at Allakaket. Rear left to right: Annie Koyukuk; David Black; Johnny Edwards; unidentified. Front left to right: Big Susie; Maggie, Neegadzoos; Tilaqtuq; Big Jim's wife, Nagukluk; and her adopted son. Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Three young girls at mission in Allakaket. Sarah Simon, Bessie Simon William, and Nee’eezun Dummy Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Laura Oldman in front of mission garden, Allakaket. Small child in front of fenced garden; building in background Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Tishu Ulen, Allakaket. Smiling young woman wearing fur coat, scarf, and lace-up boots 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 Sophie Isaac, Jennie Williams, and Grandma Tilly Isaac, Allakaket. Woman, young girl, and child in decorated fur parkas and mukluks Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Henry and Lucy Moses, Allakaket. Lucy is wearing a caribou skin parka bought from Eskimo people; white sheep skin is sewn into a contrasting pattern with the dark summer leggings of caribou to make the trim Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
image thumbnail Sophie and Joe Williams, Allakaket. Young couple in what is possibly a wedding photograph; log building in background is home of Sophie's mother Amelia Hill Photograph Collection, ca. 1920-1950. ASL-PCA-247;
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;

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