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Correspondence, diaries, mss. of writings, photos, and other papers, relating to Richards's experiences as a teacher in native schools at Wainwright, Gambell, and Unalakleet, Alaska, and to her book, Arctic Mood (1949), a chronicle of those experiences; together with memoir "David L. Gray, Trader at Council, Alaska, His Story," by David L. Gray

Two letters (5 p.) relating to St. Lawerence Island Eskimo Jimmie Otiyohok and life in Gambell, Alaska since Edward D Jones' last trip (1920's?)

This collection includes correspondence and photographs concerning Fred Geeslin's work with the Alaska Indian Service, including information and photographs concerning relocation and resettlement of Aleuts to Southeast Alaska, during and after WWII. Also included are images of Juneau, Alaskan villages and landscape, and Geeslin family portraits

The collection is comprised of photographs taken or collected by J.E. Thwaites, original writings by Thwaites, and letter and drawings to Thwaites from children in Alaska -- 511 photographs of Alaska (including 3 albums) taken or collected by amateur photographs John E. Thwaites, mostly while employed by the Railway Mail Service in Alaska. Includes images of the shipwrecks of the SS Farallon and SS Columbia, of Alaska natives and details of native life, and of other people and places in Alaska. Also includes a group of photographs copied from negatives taken by photographer Otto Geist, of Native Americans at Gambell, Alaska. Writings describe Thwaites's experiences aboard the ships Dora and Farallon, and an essay on the Bogoslof volcano, with accompanying photographs by Thwaites. Children's letters are addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Thwaites in Ketchikan from Native Alaskan children in Gambell and Savoonga, Alaska. Most are thank you letters for gifts of photographs and dolls from J.E. ...

The collection consists of 59 black-and-white photographs depicting Alaska Native people and culture, primarily around the village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. There are several images of a whale hunt

The Francis H. Fay collection consists of field notes, photographs, photographic transparencies and an unpublished manuscript. The field notes detail Fay's research, including not only his walrus research, but also his study of other Saint Lawrence Island fauna and his participation in village hunting activities. Fay also writes about day to day activities in Gambell and Savoonga, Alaska, and about the people he met and worked with. The photographs include people, activities, and landscapes taken on Saint Lawrence Island. Most of the pictures were taken in the 1950s in Gambell and Savoonga, and serve to illustrate Fay's field notes with images of his research activities, hunting experiences, and the people of Gambell and Savoonga. Many of the pictures include identifications

The Charles Hughes Collection consists of his field notes and files from his anthropological research on St. Lawrence Island as well as a personal narrative of William W. Field, M.D. describing his experiences on St. Lawrence Island. Observations of both include descriptions of local customs as well as linguistic, dietary, medical, subsistence, kinship, and climate information from the area. This collection also includes a copy of the Hotovitzsky translation of L.A. Zagoskin's travels in Russian America, letters, reprints, and a translation of Fainberg's "On the question of the Eskimo kinship system" by Charles Hughes. It also contains drawings by Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk, a transcription of the diaries (1904-1911) of Edgar O. Campbell, the U.S. Commissioner stationed at St. Lawrence Island, as well as transcripts of the diaries of others stationed on the island in the early 1900's. There collection also includes photocopies of Hughes's field books from the University of Utah

Typescript describing Field's experiences in Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, during 1940 Jul-Aug. Most of the text is excerpted from his diary and from interviews of Eskimos regarding their lives and customs conducted by Field, Cross, and Dorothea and Alexander Leighton. Plates include photographs of sketches drawn by Eskimos and photographs taken by Field in 1940

Correspondence, writings, diaries, writings concerning Richards' experience in Alaska, she was also an artist and published author

The collection includes fifty-two letters from the Apassingok family to their friend Mrs. Sarah J. Workman, discussing items of clothing made for the Workman family, goods needed by the Apassingok family for daily living, Alaskan family and village life, Eskimo artifacts, family illnesses, and other personal issues