Title by cataloger. This appears to be an explorer examining the inside rim of an active volcano. There's a fog surrounding him where steam is rising. [Judging by the patches of white, he may instead be on a glacier or in the crevice of a...
Title from image caption Additional information : Iceland explorer [Vihjalmur Stefansson?] who came around the Northeast Passage to north land and from there with Joe Barnard on TEDDY BEAR schooner
Title from image caption Additional information : Iceland explorer [Vihjalmur Stefansson?] who came around the Northeast Passage to north land and from there with Joe Barnard on TEDDY BEAR schooner
Roald Amundsen the arctic and subarctic explorer is seen in this photograph after his arrival in Nome, Alaska. He had just finished his flight on the Norge, which had flown over the north pole.
A snow covered town in the vicinity of McCarthy, Alaska.
McCarthy, Alaska takes its name after a prospector named James McCarthy, and the nearby Kennicott Glacier is named for the early explorer Robert Kennicott. Both men were honored this...
Title taken from caption. " Panorama of Ship Creek, Alaska S. S. Mariposa, Bertha and Explorer." Cataloguer's note: Built in 1883, this Alaska Steamship Company steamer would voyage the Seattle - Cook Inlet route. Photographer: P. S. Hunt,...
Title from verso. "In the winter of 1942-43, Sir Hubert Wilkins, celebrated Arctic explorer, visited Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, to help solve some of the problems that arose in pushing lend-lease planes through to Russia during one of the...
Title from caption. "Amundsen on arrival N______" (possibly Nome). The last word of the caption is illegible due to a blemish on the photograph. Verso reads: "Historical photograph Collection in the Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks."...
Title from caption. On May 11, 1926, the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, accompanied by the American Lincoln Ellsworth, the Italian Umberto Nobile (who had constructed the vessel and flew it), the pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who...
Title from verso. "Tuning up the "Detroiter". This enormous plane has three engines. The [propeller] in the picture [left engine] is the one which struck and killed Palmer Hutchinson. Copies from Reed's."
Title from verso. "Wilkins. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." In 1927 Explorer George Hubert Wilkins led the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition. This was Wilkins's second venture into the Arctic. The plane, a Stinson-Detroit biplane which was...
Forensic reconstruction of explorer Vitus Bering. Reconstruction by V. N. Zvyagin, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Moscow. 1992-1995? Photographer: Jan Oelker, Dresden.
Looking south toward A-J Mill; ALMA of Juneau Ferry & Navigation Company in foreground; government vessel, perhaps the EXPLORER, in front of coal dock with other boats