Dogs resting at their stakes in front of a new squared log cabin. Charlie douglas, snow machine. First in town! One of the original snow machines among the summer plants
Maude Cleveland bruning the quills of of a porcupine before skinning it to cook.
Joyce and Dan Denslow in front of white wall tent. Ambler River in the background, small wood stove beside the tent.
Photo taken from the bank looking down on the Ambler River by Betty Jo. Fireweed in full bloom.
Regina Tickett is the tallest girl, Mabel Johnson is the second tallest,
Summer flowers
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
Joyce Denslow with Maude Foxglove cutting fish to dry on the beach in front of Ambler.
Three boys in front of Art and Dora Douglas' cabins. This cabin housed the post office for many years. fish drying in the foreground, tent pitched on the right.
Dan and Joyce Denslow setting out lunch on a gravel bar of the Kobuk River.
Joe Cleveland, Catherine Cleveland's son playing in the net repair area on the beach in front of Ambler. Fish racks down by the river, fenced garden and cache on the left. Also an wall tent. with the flap thrown open. A small outboard motor on a stand.
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Joyce and Dan Denslow by a village cabin. This log cabin is typical of village housing of this time.
1964. Dora Douglas Dora by the fire pit with an untanned moose skin, Ambler, Alaska,
Baby Cleveland's gravesite. This graveyard is on a hill about a mile upriver from the village of Ambler.
Friends Church built by Tommy Douglas, village leader, along with other Ambler villagers. Built in 1960.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).
Maude Foxglove in typical summer dress, using an ulu to cut chum salmon to dry.
Joyce and Dan Denslow with catch of fish, pike and sheafish.
Joyce Denslow with friend (likely Betty Jo Goddard) displaying a catch of fish.
Ayarluk, Harry Tickett's mother, wearing wolverine ruff. Fish dring next to water's edge.
Dora Douglas on left, with two of her children, Maude Foxglove on right.
Meeting the weekly mailplane on the beach, everyone in town wants to see the activity.
Dan Denslow on beach in front of Ambler. Bucky Bee in the background anchored to shore.
Three beautiful girls with assorted footwear. Summer in Ambler.
Fish nets drying on racks along the Kobuk River in front of Ambler
Old style house with garden in front, Perhaps the Foxglove's house. Ambler in summer.
Two boys playing by dogsled in front of Kobuk River in summertime.
Chum Salmon and salmon heads drying in front of Ambler village.
Joyce Denslow with friend (likely Betty Jo Goddard) displaying a catch of fish.
Dora Douglas under fish racks keeping a smudge going to deter the flies.
Maude Cleveland by fish racks near Kobuk River
Joyce and Dan camping on sandbar
Joyce and Dan Denslows tent camp on asandbar.
Kobuk River with Jade Mountains in background.
Beautiful garden, perhaps Nelson Griest's garden project on the Ambler River
Cabins with metal roofs, caches, dog houses, clothes drying, and dogs in their dog yard
1964 Ambler from the air.
Griests vegetable garden and racks of fish drying.
Inside of the Ambler church. oil barrell wood stove for heat, wooden pews.
Dogs resting at their stakes in front of a new squared log cabin. Charlie douglas, snow machine. First in town! One of the original snow machines among the summer plants
Maude Cleveland bruning the quills of of a porcupine before skinning it to cook.
Joyce and Dan Denslow in front of white wall tent. Ambler River in the background, small wood stove beside the tent.
Photo taken from the bank looking down on the Ambler River by Betty Jo. Fireweed in full bloom.
Regina Tickett is the tallest girl, Mabel Johnson is the second tallest,
Summer flowers
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
Joyce Denslow with Maude Foxglove cutting fish to dry on the beach in front of Ambler.
Three boys in front of Art and Dora Douglas' cabins. This cabin housed the post office for many years. fish drying in the foreground, tent pitched on the right.
Dan and Joyce Denslow setting out lunch on a gravel bar of the Kobuk River.
Joe Cleveland, Catherine Cleveland's son playing in the net repair area on the beach in front of Ambler. Fish racks down by the river, fenced garden and cache on the left. Also an wall tent. with the flap thrown open. A small outboard motor on a stand.
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Joyce and Dan Denslow by a village cabin. This log cabin is typical of village housing of this time.
1964. Dora Douglas Dora by the fire pit with an untanned moose skin, Ambler, Alaska,
Baby Cleveland's gravesite. This graveyard is on a hill about a mile upriver from the village of Ambler.
Friends Church built by Tommy Douglas, village leader, along with other Ambler villagers. Built in 1960.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).
Maude Foxglove in typical summer dress, using an ulu to cut chum salmon to dry.
Joyce and Dan Denslow with catch of fish, pike and sheafish.
Joyce Denslow with friend (likely Betty Jo Goddard) displaying a catch of fish.
Ayarluk, Harry Tickett's mother, wearing wolverine ruff. Fish dring next to water's edge.
Dora Douglas on left, with two of her children, Maude Foxglove on right.
Meeting the weekly mailplane on the beach, everyone in town wants to see the activity.
Dan Denslow on beach in front of Ambler. Bucky Bee in the background anchored to shore.
Three beautiful girls with assorted footwear. Summer in Ambler.
Fish nets drying on racks along the Kobuk River in front of Ambler
Old style house with garden in front, Perhaps the Foxglove's house. Ambler in summer.
Two boys playing by dogsled in front of Kobuk River in summertime.
Chum Salmon and salmon heads drying in front of Ambler village.
Joyce Denslow with friend (likely Betty Jo Goddard) displaying a catch of fish.
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Dora Douglas under fish racks keeping a smudge going to deter the flies.
Maude Cleveland by fish racks near Kobuk River
Joyce and Dan camping on sandbar
Joyce and Dan Denslows tent camp on asandbar.
Kobuk River with Jade Mountains in background.
Beautiful garden, perhaps Nelson Griest's garden project on the Ambler River
Cabins with metal roofs, caches, dog houses, clothes drying, and dogs in their dog yard
1964 Ambler from the air.
Griests vegetable garden and racks of fish drying.
Inside of the Ambler church. oil barrell wood stove for heat, wooden pews.