Photograph album, 1938-1941.

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Photograph album, 1938-1941.

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The collection consists of the second of two Alaska photograph albums of O.C. and Ruth Connelly, entitled "Alaska Odyssey, Vol. II." The collection includes original album pages, a xerographic copy of the album, and 92 black and white copy negatives. The original 74-page album contains 425 different mounted black and white prints. Subjects of the photographs include: hunting whales at Gambell, hunting walrus off Punuk Island, beluga whales, sea lions, arctic fox and arctic fox furs being packed, Mirow Air Service planes delivering mail, Connelly family photographs, native school children and adults at the schoolhouse in Savoonga, artifacts and ancient dwelling at Kookoolik, yearly supplies arriving on the S.S. Sutherland, the arrival of the trading boat the M.S. Trader, U.S. Coast Guard commander, medical officers, and other crew of the USMS North Star, reindeer camps and roundups, travel to Seattle via Unalakleet, McGrath, Anchorage, Seward, and Juneau, and travel from Seattle to Chicago, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Ohio, and finally to Indiana.

.25 cu. ft.425 photographs : b&w ; 3 x 4 cm.-9 x 12 cm. + 92 photograph negatives.

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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Connelly, O. C.

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O.C. Connelly was the Local Reindeer Superintendent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, for Saint Lawrence Island from 1938 to 1940. He and his wife, Ruth, also served as the schoolteachers at the village of Savoonga, where they were stationed. Bill, their young son, lived with them. Other U.S. Government employees on the island at the time included the nurse, Ms. Leake, Gambell schoolteachers Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hinckley, and Dr. Alexander M. Leighton, M.D. The Local Superintendent of the reindeer program ...

Connelly, Ruth.

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