76 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows two sternwheelers, the Alice and the General J. W. Jacobs, traveling on the Yukon River. A short segment near the end shows dogs tied up on a barge.
Title taken from caption. View of J. W. Shipley setting up and using his chemical laboratory. Identity based on fact that Shipley is the only chemist listed as part of the 1917 expedition. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai...
Title taken from caption. View of J.W. Shipley, the expedition chemist, walking across a tree over a gully in the mudflow. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society...
Photograph of a group of men posing outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Office in Rampart House, Yukon Territory, Canada. The men are identified as Charlie Ellingsen, Bishop, J. W. MacCormack, Frank Jackson, E. A. Cook, Jim Jackson.
Title taken from caption on Album. "Str. Gen. Jacobs leaving Nenana with men drafted for war. June 1917". [The full name and dates of the Sternwheeler is as follows: General J. W. Jacobs ( 1908 - 1940 ).]
Title taken from caption. Also from caption: " Peak of Mageik in background." View of three members of the National Geographic expedition to Katmai area in front of their tent. J.W. Shipley was a chemist, Clarence F. Maynard was a topographer, and...
Title taken from caption "A cottonwood tree buried in the ash. The curious branching shows that it had reached the limits of heights possible under the climatic conditions." View of two members of the expedition with a cottonwood tree. The trees...
Title taken from caption. View of Clarence F. Maynard testing his equipment near Kodiak. Identity based on fact that Maynard is the only topographer listed as part of the 1917 expedition. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on...
Title taken from caption. View of the arrival of the expedition at the shore of Katmai Bay. The men are unloading their supplies from boats before returning to the ship in the distance for more. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai...
Title taken from caption. View of the lava plug of Novarupta from the crater rim. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917....
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition collecting gas samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917....
Title taken from caption. Man standing at Fissure Lake in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. Also from caption: "Note the steam rising...
Title taken from caption. Three carpenters mend a small boat at Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917. Photographer: J.W. Shipley.
Title taken from caption. National Geographic Society expedition member collecting gas sample at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer: J.W. Shipley.
Title taken from caption. View of expedition members with surveying equipment standing on crater rim during National Geographic Society expedition to what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer: J.W....
Title taken from caption. View of Russian Orthodox Church, Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917. Photographer: J.W. Shipley.
Shows Franklin's route in 1819, 1820 and 1821. Dedicated to Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, Captain of the Shannon (the British ship that defeated the Chesepeake in the War of 1812), by Henry Martin Leake.