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Show I ""scmT of the midnight sun J J I 1. The lower Yukon after the break-up in May. The driver of the dog team is locking for a trail. Lieutenant Oecrsc 3. Taylrr cf Woods Cross, wilh a. four-tit ji-.th-cld Mack I fox valued at more than $100. Ths picture was taken at Tanana, Alaska. 3. Mais mute pups, which are hcins raised for .sledge dog.-.. 4. A "killer" vlialo harpooned hy two lialf-braed of C I Tanana. Tho whalo journeyed nine hundrod miles from the sea by way of tho Yukon river. It", coming was looked upon as a good omen by the SiwaMi In dir.:: near T?v..-na. and it is be- 5 S lieveu by tho natives to have prevented the outbreak of influenza in the settlement. 5. A photograph showing the position cf the sun on the shortest day of the year. The rhuttor of the S 5 camera, was snapped every fifteen minutes. The sun if. visible for only about two hours and a half during the day. fort Gibbcu, Alaska, where G company of the Twcnt y-f irat infantry is stationed. The Yukon river is shown in the background. 7. "Bessie,' - the "grandmother" cr "u'oUicr" of abiost al! cf t'.'e Siwarh Indians near Ta::a.:ia. ITo one in Ta:ia::a knows tho age of tho old Indian, and she herself has lost count of the years. J ; I . ' x';'. VVj.f.f., ... !' 4J . - ; i-:-, '.;: ,.:,.";.v:-T.;-:.r?a 'a w , ' :' .a1-: c 4 j "-,1 'Ci'-' : ; :. ..aaX' :1' t - " " ' ; r " ' Ljiiim "IT ' ' ' " -I ' " ':4iT?hx s ' ' - , - kJL : v-- i in&hr " ' 1 , l, ' " ; V J - -s S ' sa ssj . .: iw'jif f , I s s j I ? I i |