Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Includes two insets, one showing anchorage at Chamissi Island in Kotzebue Sound and another showing Port Clarence and Grantley Harbor.
Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Surveyed in 1905 and 1906. Includes 8 geologic sections, area map, chart of analyses and testing, and legend. Map is 93 x 88 cm.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "J. & C. Walker, sculp." Originally published in 1853, with additions to 1855, corrected to 1859. "Sheet III." "2172." Signed and annotated by George Davidson, 1867. ...
Shows Bering Sea from Nunivak Island southeast to Atka Island. Depths shown by soundings. "Copied from a chart drawn by Harry Clifford Fassett, Capts. clerk." Report U.S.F.S. 1894. 80 x 72 cm.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "La construyo M. Angeles; la grabo C. Leclercq; F. Breganto grabo la letra." Prime meridian: S. Fernando. "467." 92 x 58 cm.
Ms. (blueprint copy). Shows working drills, proposed drill sites and railroads. Relief shown by hachures. "From information furnished by claiments." Published in [190-]. Scale not given.
Ms. pencil on paper. Shows wagon roads, trails and "AD Co's" camps. Mended on verso with pieces of envelope bearing return address of Washington State Senate Chamber.
Shows Bering Strait, including voyage tracks from 1816/1817, with detailed coastlines and some topography of Kotzebue Sound, St. Lawrence Bay, and portions of St. Lawrence Island. Includes references to fish along the route. Relief shown by...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Mercator proj. Inset: Sub-sketch, Port Clarence. No. 9302. Annotated in red. 93 x 72 cm.
Published in Washington, D.C. by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in...
Includes notes. Depths shown by soundings. "Copied from a chart drawn by Henry Clifford Fasset, Capt's. Clerk." From U.S. Fish Commission report, 1894.
Published in [Washington, D.C.] by the United States Fish Commission in 1894. ...
Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...
Portrait traditionally identified as Vitus Jonassen Bering. This identification is questioned, following the discovery in 1991 of Bering's remains and the forensic reconstruction of his facial features. Portrait is possibly Vitus Pedersen Bering,...
Title taken from caption. View of the cross makring Vitus Bering's grave on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "The small cross was erected many years later and then after this rotted out, the large one." Gravesite of Vitus Bering on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's...
Map of northwestern North American and the Russian Far East, including Bering Strait. Shows tracks of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Jakob von Storcksburg Stahlin. References: Wagner, 633; Falk 1773-1.
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
View of ice on Bering Sea near Nome, Alaska. Man stands in far background holding gun and sled, with dead seal on ice in front of him. From front: "340." From verso: "Breaking up of Bering Sea Nome - Alaska." Photographer's number 340. ca....
Title taken from caption. Dr. Hrdlicka looks on while Lt. Lazerof, a Soviet officer, tries to read the inscription on the cross marking Vitus Bering's grave. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...