View of (left to right) customs house, castle, and barracks in Sitka, Alaska. From front of image: "Office of Fred W. Fickett," "Valuable picture," and "Custom house - castle or U.S. Signal Office - barracks in Sitka." Fickett's office was in the...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Extensive corrections, April 1893, Sept. 1895." Stamped in margin: This chart corrected to Jul-5 1898." No. 904, p. 367.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Extensive corrections April, 1893, Sept. 1895." Stamped in bottom margin: Issued with corrections in 1898. "No. 904." "367."
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...
Cover: "Scrap-book, belonged to George Kostrometinoff ('Father Sergius') who was in the employ of the Russian gov't. and also the United States gov't.in the early days."
Title taken from image (in Thomas W .Benham's handwriting). Formal portrait of John C. Cantwell, a lieutenant in the Revenue Cutter Service. He is wearing a beaded jacket. He explored the Kobuk River (also known as the Kowak River) in 1884-1885....
View of the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service cutter the "Richard Rush" moored in Sitka Harbor. The Rush was a sister ship of the "Thomas Corwin". Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from image (handwritten by Thomas W.Benham). View of the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service cutter "Bear" with steam launch heading out to sea. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from caption. View of an open sided, rectangular shaped building. Large wooden poles provide the structural support; two walls and the roof are covered with skins. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title is based on caption in Thomas W. Benham's handwriting. View of a barabara, a traditional Unangan semi-subterranean sod house, in Unalaska. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from image (Thomas W. Benham's handwriting). View across the harbor to the town of Wrangell, along the waterfront. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
John J. McLean and paymaster Webster, carrying guns, pose for a photograph on a wooden footbridge, probably in Sitka, Alaska. ca. 1884. Original photograph size: 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inch.
Title taken from verso. Fred Wildon Fickett holding rifle standing near boat, possibly kayak, in Sitka, Alaska. From border of photo: "Fred Wildon Fickett." ca. 1884-1885.