U.S. Coast Guard photograph collection, ca. 1886-1967. [graphic].

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U.S. Coast Guard photograph collection, ca. 1886-1967. [graphic].

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These prints were reproduced from National Archives (Still Pictures Branch) Record Group 26. The National Archives identification number is cross referenced in the finding aid. Several photos depict the whaling operations of the American Pacific Whaling Co. at Akutan in the Aleutian Islands. Also included are images of skin houses, barabara, Eskimos butchering a walrus, a Native girl forming mukluk soles, a whale butchering, Old Russian block house at Sitka, the mission, parsonage, trading post and hospital at Point Barrow, graveyard at Point Hope.

54 photoprints : b&w.

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The Rock of Ages Light is a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse on a small rock outcropping approximately 2.25 miles west of Washington Island and 3.5 miles west of Isle Royale, in Keweenaw County, Michigan. It is an active aid to navigation. From the description of Rock of Ages Lighthouse Logbook, 1939-1945. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 758507044 "The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization...