Native elders, Rasmuson Library collaborate on photographic collection
March 9, 2011
About 15 elders from the Koyukuk River villages of Hughes and Huslia recently spent
a week working with University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers to help preserve a
slice of Alaska history. Funded through a grant from the National Park Service, the
elders traveled from their homes in Alaska's northern Interior to Fairbanks, where
they met with faculty and staff members from the Alaska Polar Regions Collection at
the Rasmuson Library to identify faces and places in hundreds of photographs donated
to the library archives. UAF's Todd Paris produced this slideshow, which takes a look
at the project.