Captions applied to group photographs of related individuals often define the women in
terms of their familial relationships. “Sisters.” “Women and their
children.” Some of these captions were original to the photographs, some were
applied in creating this exhibit. For many of these women it is the way they defined
themselves, by their relationships to their family members.
Late 1940s. These women and their children are standing beside a “Mobile
Health Unit”, a service provided by the Alaska Native Service, the Alaska
Tuberculosis Assoc., and the Alaska Dept. of Health.
[C. Earl Albrecht papers, HMC-0375]
Prince William Sound, 1898. Aleut crewmembers aboard the schooner Olga pose with their children.
[Edwin F. Glenn papers, HMC-0116]
Tanana, ca. 1905-1908. Katherine Claypool, left, and another woman and child
ride in this horse-drawn shay.
[Charles E. Claypool photographs, an Alaska Historical Society collection, HMC-0015u]