Hughes & Huslia: Images

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image thumbnail Pioneering, Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 1915. Title taken from front. View of men sitting outside a tent housing a sign and carpentry business, Anchorage, Alaska. Sign reads: "Conklin Fitzgerald: signs, wallpaper, paint, oil, glass, papering, painting and clothing. T. Hughes, carpenter builder." Aug. 1915. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8". AMRC. Pyatt Original Negatives Collection;
image thumbnail Richard Derendoff with a load of winter wood. Dogs were very utilitarian and necessary as well as used in racing. Within a few years snowmobiles replaced dogs for many people as working vehicles.Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Round The World Record Flight, Howard Hughes Plane, Fairbanks - July 13, 1938. Title from image A crowd of people gathers on rooftops and on tarmac around Hughes' plane, a Lockheed Model 14 Electra or Super Electra, which was stopping at Fairbanks for fuel and food Photographers in Alaska, ca. 1878-1919. ASL-PCA-341;
image thumbnail Saa_n _Gaa_ga, Ghonoyee, Look’a Yil Full title: Saa_n _Gaa_ga, Ghonoyee, Look’a Yil / developed by Alaska State Operated School System ; specialist Tupou L. Pulu ... [et al.] ; illustrated by J. Leslie Hanson. Publication: Anchorage : Alaska State Operated School System, 1975. Physical desc: 25 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. General Note: In Central Koyukon Athabaskan (Huslia area). Alaska State Library. Alaska Native Language Materials. ASL.
image thumbnail Sheath A moosehide sheath with strap of dentalia shells and beads. Sheath (length 30 cm.) made of moosehide. Tip of sheath replaced with new piece of moosehide. Moosehide fringe around sheath tip. Sheath decorated with dentalia shells, and beads (dark blue, and clear green on tassels and black, and metallic beads on sheath body). Strap composed of a repeating pattern of amber beads, light blue beads, amber beads, moosehide strip, and dentalia shells. This pattern repeats 13 times along the strap with a moosehide divider and 10 more along the other side. Total length 83 cm. Width of sheath approx 10 cm. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Sheath Moosehide sheath with strap of dentalia shells and beads. Sheath (length 30 cm.) made of moosehide. Tip of sheath replaced with new piece of moosehide. Moosehide fringe around sheath tip. Sheath decorated with dentalia shells, and beads (dark blue, and clear green on tassles and black, and metallic beads on sheath body). Strap composed of a repeating pattern of amber beads, light blue beads, amber beads, moosehide strip, and dentalia shells. This pattern repeates 13 times along the strap with a moosehide divider and 10 more along the other side. Total length 83 cm. Width of sheath approx 10 cm. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Sidney "wipes" the beaver in the snow to clear ice and water from the pelt. Title courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Sidney and Carl Huntington "parked" at a beaver set. Sidney is digging and chopping down to the set itself. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Sidney at rest in his sled as he moves to the next trap. Title courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Sidney clowning with a good sized beaver. Title courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Sidney Huntington. Huslia, November 1982. Title from accompanying note. Alice (A.J.) Lynch Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Sidney retrieving a blackfish trap. The homemade traps were placed in lakes.Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Sophie Sam. Huslia, November 1982. Title by indexer.Photo of an older woman sitting in front of an audio recorder. Family photos are seen on background. Alice (A.J.) Lynch Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Spring play day at the school. A shaggy track meet which drew everyone in the vicinity. A great day of fun for onlookers as well as participants. Bea Kahl standing at the right. People are sitting on the steps of the teacherage.Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Steven and Catherine Attla. Huslia, November 1982. Title from accompanying note. Alice (A.J.) Lynch Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Studio portrait: Charles W. Fairbanks. Title by cataloger. The city of Fairbanks, Alaska, is named after Charles W. Fairbanks, who was a popular political figure of his time. He is seen here seated and wearing a dark suit, white round collar and a distinct polka-dotted bow tie. He has a receding hairline and a goatee. Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852 - 1918) was a Senator from Indiana and the twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1896, and reelected in 1902. He was elected Vice President in 1904 on the Republican ticket with Theodore Roosevelt and served until 1909. In 1916, Fairbanks went on to win the nomination for Vice President under Charles Evans Hughes. A few months later, both Fairbanks and Hughes lost a close election to Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall. He returned to his home state of Indiana and continued to practice law until his death in June 1918. Information was obtained from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774- 1989. Senate document No.100-34. Washington: Government Printing Office. Charles W. Fairbanks Collection
image thumbnail Summer camp of Indians. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Summer camp of Indians, on the river near Hughes. Tishu V. Ulen collection;
image thumbnail Town cleanup day organized in the spring by the Kahls. The house in the background was owned by Steven and Catherine Attla. Dogs were a very important part of the town economy. Huslia's racers, starting with Jimmy Huntington became a real force in Alaska dog racing both in Fairbanks and Anchorage. Fishing for dog food in the summer was a serious business with the families and they moved out of town to fish camp when the fish were running. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Unloading the trap of its catch which will be cooked up for dog food back at the beaver camp. Title courtesy of Mrs. Keller. Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide collection, 1956-1963. ASL-PCA-303
image thumbnail Vanessa Derendoff. Huslia, November 1982. Title by indexer.Photo of a little girl in winter clothing. Alice (A.J.) Lynch Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Walter Todd diary C, page 41, March 10-11, 1917. Walter Todd. Diaries, 1915-1918. HMC-0988
image thumbnail Wheat on Yankovich Farm, 1963. Title from verso. Verso also stamped with the name, "Harrie L. Hughes, Fairbanks, Alaska." Image shows a detailed close-up of wheat growing in a field. Vertical File--Agriculture; Harrie L. Hughes Papers, 1947-1966;
image thumbnail Williams, H. O. (Red) interview (03/07/1985) 09 of 17 (5:27 min) (09 of 27)Flying for fur buyers Leo Kay member of the Koslosky family. Fairbanks, Ruby, Hughes, Kobuk, Shungnak, Kiana, Kotzebue then Nome. Maime Wig's Roadhouse ran into Jim McGoffin, & (Muskrat) Johnnie Schwagler. Took off early to make sure and get the furs. Doiminic Vernetti, had an attractive wife. Furbuyer kept flirting, Did same thing in Shungnak with the teachers wife. Red Williams was worried that their hosts would kick them out into the cold. Oral History Interviews, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections;
image thumbnail Williams, H. O. (Red) interview (03/07/1985) 15 of 17 (3:20 min) (15 of 17)Change and familiarity Man ran out onto ice and was waving arms Red thought something was wrong so landed and man just wanted to say hello. On a trip to Huslia with a fur buyer. Oral History Interviews, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections;

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