Historic Yakutat Alaska

Yakutat, Alaska 

historical photographs 

courtesy of Norm Israelson...

A couple of bull moose
on the Dangerous River Flats

A whale vertebrae
with Arny's old 375 Magnum leaning on it

Aerial of Yakutat
in the early 60's

Aerial shot of
Johnson Slough Landing

Ankau

Russian Ship -
some of the crewman shook their fists at
Dad and Norm in the plane

A view of the
first Akwe fish camp

A view of the
near-record day fishing

Arny Israelson's
big-wheeled buggy on Situk bridge

Arny Israelson's lodge at the Alsek -
blew down in a will-o-wah that same winter

Arny Israelson's
first lodge on the Alsek
along with his Super Cub

Arny on break
from fishing

Barge wreck
at the shoreline of Cannon Beach 

Bell Can Dock

Big bull moose
on the Dangerous River flats

Big herd of bull moose
on the Upper Dangerous River Flats -
they would gather there and fight it out

Brown Bear --
hitchhiker at Akwe

Brown bear --
back for seconds

Brown bear --
back for thirds

Brown bear
helping himself to salmon

Coast Guard Albatross after 1-engine landing -
totaled

Dale Hart's
airplane

Early seaplane at Yakutat
on Sandy Beach--off of Monti Bay

First fish camp
on the Akwe River

Fish buyers in the Alsek River -
power scow Robert S - shooner Italio - brine scow

Getting close to
adding another bin board

Gillnet skiff
on the Alsek River

Going through
Canoe Pass

Italio Lake

Japanese glass balls - floats -
there were very many of them...

Johnson Slough Landing

Karl Omhdahl and Bud Anderson
loading up the SeaBee

Looking east
from Ocean Cape

Lost River
in the early 60s

Mt St Elias
taken from Yakutat Village

Norm Israelson
at Broken Bridge

Norm gillnetting -
East River in 1957

Norm shot this nice buck by Lost River -
a long way out on the grass flats -
had to go get his buddy Ralph Guthrie to help pack it out

Norm with his goat
when hunting at Icy Bay

Norm's '59 Chevy -
newest car in Yakutat at the time

Another view of the old barge
on the shoreline of Cannon Beach

Original fish camp
at Akwe

Pitching fish
aboard the Situk Barge

Rainbow at the Yakutat Airport
(believe this is Dick Nichol's plane)

Record load
of coho's 779

Running past Hubbard Glacier
with 700' of ice hanging over them

Russian Trawler -
Dad flew out and Norm took a bunch of photographs -
12 miles offshore for the Associated Press

Russian trawler
with full drag

Seabees
over Monti Bay

Super Cubs on the ocean beach
at Yakutat

Tending a gillnet
on the Akwe

The Kayak
in Dry Bay

The beautiful
old schooner Italio

The equipment for the
first Akwe fish camp in Dry Bay

The first fish hauler at the Akwe -
a surplus SeaBee

The first vehicle at the Akwe fish camp -
surplus army weapons carrier with hand-built plywood cab -
no doors

The fish buyers
at the Alsek

The floating cannery Kayak -
a converted landing craft operated for many years by Jack Most -
the first salmon Norm ever sold was to him

The old Colorado Gas and Oil Warehouse
on the hill on the east side of Icy Bay

The original army weapons carrier
on the Akwe

The outhouse at Akwe -
named -Ocean View-

The weapons carrier
before the cab was added

Their competition fish buyer,
the Frederick C out of Pelican -
Johnny Breseman owner

Up Johnson Sough
with the pickup boat

When a bear hauled a gillnet up on the beach
it was a mess and mending nets was constant

Yakutaga
when it was active

Yakutat Airport
in the winter of 1963

Yakutat Bellingham Canning Co
(Bell Can) Dock in 1963

Yakutat Boat Harbor -
first winter