View of men on a tour aboard Riverboat Discovery Tour at Fairbanks, Alaska. Sign on boat reads: "Welcome aboard the goodship ... Discovery." 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows Turnagain Arm and Prince William Sound east to Mt. St. Elias. Includes tracks of Vancouver's voyage. Inset: A Survey of Port Chalmers. No. 11 in Vancouver's A voyage of discovery to the North...
48 second color/silent film clip, of a trip on the Riverboat Discovery in Fairbanks, Alaska. Clip shows passengers loading, Jim Binkley talking on a microphone, Mary Binkley talking to passengers about fur, and a trip to an Athabascan fish camp.
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows area from Cape Decision to Mt. St. Elias and Pt. Riow. Insets: A survey of Port Protection; A survey of Port Conclusion; Entrance into Cross Sound. Engraved by T. Foot. No. 12 in Vancouver's A...
A reduced version of the De l'Isle/Buache map published by the Prussian Academy of Science & Literature, published by Euler, a German mathematician who was with the St. Petersburg Academy. Shows routes of Russian discoveries in 1723, 1732, and...
Relief shown pictorially. Mounted on paper. Chart of the Pacific Coast including Vancouver Island, Juan de Fuca strait, and the mouth of the Columbia River, showing tracks of Vancouver's voyage. "In which the continental shore traced and...
Relief shown pictorially. Mounted on paper. Chart of the Pacific Coast including Vancouver Island, Juan de Fuca strait, and the mouth of the Columbia River, showing tracks of Vancouver's voyage. "In which the continental shore traced and...
Page 3. "Showing dates and routes of voyages of discovery, lines of equal temperature, distribution of races, prevailing religions, and the greatest ocean depths. From the latest authorities." North polar regions with the principal routes of...
Title from caption: "No. 1 above Discovery Cleary Creek, Alaska, Fairbanks mining dist." Written on front of postcard, " Showing mode of dumping the buckets of gravel which is taken out of ground. Sluice boxes on troughs are laid at side of...
Title from verso. Full comment from verso reads: "Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the discovery well for the giant Prudhoe Bay field, is enclosed in a metal building in this 1969 photograph. The discovery well, drilled in 1968 by ARCO/Exxon,...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "Confirmation well, which verified the discovery for the Prudhoe Bay oil field, was the Sag River State No. 1, drilled in 1968. The discovery well, Prudhoe bay State No. 1, was completed as a gas...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Blowing snow nearly obscures the Prudhoe Bay discovery well in 1969 photo. 'White outs' such as this are common during Arctic winters."