Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor pulling into the dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Caption also says: "The USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, a war veteran wearing a chevron." A chevron is painted on the smoke stack of the ship....
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Men can be seen on the decks of the ship as well as waiting on the docks. The United States flag is flying from the rear of the ship and a chevron is painted on...
Title taken from caption. View of the U.S. Coast Surveyor while at Kodiak Island, Alaska. There are two smaller boats in the foreground. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1919.
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor at the docks in Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1919.
View of surveyor's instrument near White Alice Communications site on Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska and parts of...
Title taken from caption. View of a funeral cortege at Dutch Harbor. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...