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...
Sir G. Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson landing in Barrow, Alaska, on their first circumpolar flight, April 15, 1928. This flight went from Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, Norway, a distance of 2500 miles. From verso: "At Barrow. On their first...
People identified in caption: top row, left to right: Barry Keown, Col. Hartman, Carl Lomen, Earl Rossman, Henry Bizanion, Alfred Lomen; bottom row, left to right: Capt. A.M. Smith, Valhjalmur Stefansson, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Col. Ben Eielson
During the first attempt of flying over the north pole Sir Hubert Wilkins the expeditions aircraft developed problems. Supplies needed for the flight were sent to Point Barrow on snow motors and dog sled. This party developed troubles as well and...
Title taken from verso. Full title on verso reads, "First silo in Fairbanks district perhaps in all Alaska, built by J. F. Hielscher, fall of 1905. Lumber cut and matched by Noyes' Mill = Tanana Lumber Co. Iron bands by Barrack Blacksmith...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
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.
Title page in British atlas: maps and charts accompanying the Case of Great Britain, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Shows Canada, Alaska, northern Asia and northern Europe with north coast of Greenland undefined. Includes key indicating the unknown polar regions, the extent of drift ice, the northern tree line and extent of human occupation.. Selective relief...
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.
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. From Bartholomew's Supplement to...
Insets: Enlarged chart of Wellington Channel &c. -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. "Printed in Colours by W.H.M.Farlane, Edinburgh." Plate 40.
Published in Edinburgh by A. & C. Black in 1862?....
Caption: during the first attempt of flying over the north pole Sir Hubert Wilkins the expeditions aircraft developed problems. Supplies needed for the flight were sent to Point Barrow on snow motors and dog sled. This party developed troubles as...
Relief shown by hachures. "A.S. Cochrane, draughtsman." Compiled from surveys by Dr. R. Bell, Sir J. Franklin, John Fleming, A.R.C. Selwyn and the Dominion Lands Dept. "To accompany Dr. Bell's report for 1878."
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
vi, [2], 293 p. front, XVIII pl., 2 fold. maps. 28 cm.
"This work is plagiarized from the prof. Sir C. L. M. von Giesecke's Lectures and from Generla Vallancey."--Allibone, Crit. dictionary of English literature, v. 2.
Contents: Letter of transmittal. Testimony of Chief Kah-du-shan from Wrangel; Chief Johnson (Yash-noosh) from Juneau; Chief Koogh-see fom Hoonah; Chief Kah-ea-tchiss from Hoonah; Chief Shoo-we-Kah from Juneau; Chief Ah-na-tlash from Taku;...