Cyanotype photograph of 1st Lieutenant John S. Kulp (left) and Captain Edwin F. Glenn (right), wearing dark glasses and snowshoes, pose for a photograph at Portage Bay on Prince William Sound. Photograph taken by Walter C. Mendenhall during the...
Cyanotype photograph of six men wearing snowshoes pulling a sled on Portage Glacier; a seventh man pushes the sled. Photo taken by Walter Curran Mendenhall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the...
Cyanotype photograph of an unidentified man feeding hay to mules at a tent camp on the Valdez Trail, while another man looks on. Deep snow surrounds the animals; a tent is visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet...
Cyanotype photograph of members of the 1898 U.S. Army expedition posing for a photograph with their pack mules and dogs at Portage Bay (now Passage Canal). One man holds a pair of snow shoes, another cradles a gun. The man on the far left...
Cyanotype photograph of the tent camp of Expedition No. 3, or the Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, at Portage Bay (now Passage Canal) in May 1898. Several tents are scattered amongst the trees. Two men stand outside a dark tent in the middle of...
View of the Tallapoosa life ring. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "The Tallapoosa is a small boat but has a very neat appearance. It is 160 feet long and has 900 tons displacement. It served in the Atlantic waters from April 1917 until November...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
Title taken from caption. View of many boats, buildings and people on the pier at Juneau. From May's journal, dated May 19th: "About 8 a.m. this morning we docked at Juneau, the capital of Alaska. ...Juneau is by far the nicest town we have seen...
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Left to right: Osborne, the customs inspector, and major; aboard U.S.C.G. “Alert”." View of "Ozzie" Osborne, Mr. Sides, the customs inspector, and Alan May on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat...
Title taken from caption. View of a young man posing for a photograph on deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat Alert. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Members of the expedition eat lunch around a campfire on Ship Rock. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Men put supplies aboard a small boat to be used to transfer them ashore. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Professor W.P. Anderson on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Passengers and crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
A view of Petersburg, Alaska from the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of man wearing an apron walking across the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of cannery from aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands. Identified...