Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).
Cabins with metal roofs, caches, dog houses, clothes drying, and dogs in their dog yard
Shield Downey standing by fish racks
Two boys sittin on the bank under a cache in Ambler, fish drying,
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.
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
Baby Cleveland's gravesite. This graveyard is on a hill about a mile upriver from the village of Ambler.
1964. Dora Douglas Dora by the fire pit with an untanned moose skin, Ambler, Alaska,
Joyce and Dan Denslow by a village cabin. This log cabin is typical of village housing of this time.
Friends Church built by Tommy Douglas, village leader, along with other Ambler villagers. Built in 1960.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
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.
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
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.
Joyce Denslow with Maude Foxglove cutting fish to dry on the beach in front of Ambler.
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).
Cabins with metal roofs, caches, dog houses, clothes drying, and dogs in their dog yard
Shield Downey standing by fish racks
Two boys sittin on the bank under a cache in Ambler, fish drying,
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.
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
Baby Cleveland's gravesite. This graveyard is on a hill about a mile upriver from the village of Ambler.
1964. Dora Douglas Dora by the fire pit with an untanned moose skin, Ambler, Alaska,
Joyce and Dan Denslow by a village cabin. This log cabin is typical of village housing of this time.
Friends Church built by Tommy Douglas, village leader, along with other Ambler villagers. Built in 1960.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
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.
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
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.
Joyce Denslow with Maude Foxglove cutting fish to dry on the beach in front of Ambler.
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler