Shows Bering Sea from Nunivak Island southeast to Atka Island. Depths shown by soundings. "Copied from a chart drawn by Harry Clifford Fassett, Capts. clerk." Report U.S.F.S. 1894. 80 x 72 cm.
Shows Bering Strait, including voyage tracks from 1816/1817, with detailed coastlines and some topography of Kotzebue Sound, St. Lawrence Bay, and portions of St. Lawrence Island. Includes references to fish along the route. Relief shown by...
Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...
Portrait traditionally identified as Vitus Jonassen Bering. This identification is questioned, following the discovery in 1991 of Bering's remains and the forensic reconstruction of his facial features. Portrait is possibly Vitus Pedersen Bering,...
Title taken from caption. View of the cross makring Vitus Bering's grave on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "The small cross was erected many years later and then after this rotted out, the large one." Gravesite of Vitus Bering on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's...
Map of northwestern North American and the Russian Far East, including Bering Strait. Shows tracks of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Jakob von Storcksburg Stahlin. References: Wagner, 633; Falk 1773-1.
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
View of ice on Bering Sea near Nome, Alaska. Man stands in far background holding gun and sled, with dead seal on ice in front of him. From front: "340." From verso: "Breaking up of Bering Sea Nome - Alaska." Photographer's number 340. ca....
Title taken from caption. Dr. Hrdlicka looks on while Lt. Lazerof, a Soviet officer, tries to read the inscription on the cross marking Vitus Bering's grave. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...
Caption reads: "Taken on Behring [Bering] Sea - two miles from land. February 20th, 1902. Nome, Alaska." Three women and a man stand on snow and ice, apparently on the Bering Sea. Photos UAF-1985-122-46 to...
43 second, color/black & white/silent film clip of a wrecked Dickson Bering Sea Airways Waco biplane. A Woodley Airways aircraft is also seen later in the film clip.
Title from verso. Panoramic photograph of six men standing on a lake shore near an oil prospecting camp. Full caption from verso reads: "Prospecting for oil in Katalla. This is the Cudahy Company's oil outfit on the shores of Bering...
Title taken from caption. "Ice Hummocks in Bering Sea." Photographers number: D3 Cataloguer's note: This is a spectacular view with massive ice formations. The dog sled team and the two men appear to be taking a rest.
Title taken from caption. Three islands on the Bering sea. Captions read: "Castle rock, 1779", "Perry island recently thrown up in Behring Sea, 1906", and "Fire Island, 1803". Black & white postcard.