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1. Trip to Alaska, 1926-1928

Trip to Alaska, 1926-1928

Description: Field notes and drafts of Irene Finley's articles discussing animals encountered on the Finleys' trip to Alaska. Included are newspaper articles discussing the fur trade, native Alaskan culture, and increases in seal population.

2. Fouke Fur Company, fur seal contract, 1931-1933

Fouke Fur Company, fur seal contract, 1931-1933

Description: Contracts between the U.S. Department of Commerce and Fouke Fur Company focusing on the sale of fur seal skins from the Pribilof Islands in Alaska, 1931-1933

3. Fur seals of the Pribilofs: Near neighbors to Japan

Fur seals of the Pribilofs: Near neighbors to Japan

Description: Irene Finley describes a trip to a small chain of Alaskan islands to observe the seals that inhabit them.

4. The fur seals of the Pribilofs

The fur seals of the Pribilofs

Description: The manuscript discusses fur seals as well as other coastal animal life, including auklets, shrews, and lemmings.

5. Trip to Alaska, 1926

Trip to Alaska, 1926

Description: Field notes discussing animals encountered on the Aleutian Islands, Kenai peninsula, and McKinley Park. Included is a draft of Irene Finley's article, "Seals."

6. Trip to Alaska, 1922-1926

Trip to Alaska, 1922-1926

Description: Field notes from the Finleys' trip to the Pribilof Islands and Irene Finley's article, "The Pribilof Islands."

7. Danger to the fur seals

Danger to the fur seals

Description: Article describing fur seals on the Pribilof Islands and conservation concerns. Submitted to the Oregon Journal newspaper.

8. Seal pup

Description: Even though it is black and white, this print shows how the pup seal's fur acts as natural camoflague when the animal is ashore, the conditions under which it has the least maneuverability and agility.

9. Continental Glacier

Continental Glacier

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Ice bodies of the third class, as their name implies, are of vast extent and may even cover entire continents. Existing examples are confined to Greenland and to Antarctic regions. Others that have now vanished left unmistakable records over large portions of northeastern North America and northwestern Europe. The principal characteristic of continental glaciers are their vast extent, their comparatively level surface, and the prolongation of portions of their borders into lobes and even into well-defined streams, were the topographic and other conditions are favorable. The total amount of snow and ice on all land is perhaps as much as a million cubic miles. If this amount of ice were all melted and returned to the sea, it would raise its level about thirty feet."

10. US Navy photo of Ensign dipping water in Antarctica, January 1963

US Navy photo of Ensign dipping water in Antarctica, January 1963

Description: Caption on reverse: "Task Forse(sic) Forty Three, XAM-31768-1-63, 15 Jan. 1963, Ens. Harold S. Hemphill USN, Assistant Photographic Officer of Air Development Squadron Six gets a bottle of water out of a seal hole at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The bottle of water is for ceremonial use in the United States." Credit line to read: "Official U.S. Navy photograph by Photographers Mate Second Class (PH2) Thomas J. Regina PH2 USN." The officer in the photograph is probably an OSU ROTC Graduate.