Title taken from caption. Lowering a life boat off the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa to practice rescues. En route from Juneau to Yakutat. There is a village in the background, possibly Juneau. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian...
Title taken from caption. A crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa climbs across a ladder toward a timber trestle and the dock in the deserted mining town of Latouche, site of the former Beatson mine of the Kennecott Copper...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Gisberg, 'Snake,' 'Doc,' and 'Mac.'" View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "One old timer there told me...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Wineman, Gebhard, Guggenheim, Connor, May and Seashore." Portrait of the 1937 expedition members. From May's journal, dated June 18th: "We landed from the launch... and as it was fairly bright the...
Title taken from caption. View of Aleš Hrdlička, Captain Noble G. Ricketts, and the Executive Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa traveling in a launch to the village of Nikolskoe on Bering Island. From May's journal, dated July...
Title taken from caption. Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa painting the ship. Original image blurred. From May's journal, dated June 10th: "The men are now painting the ship, endevoring [sic] to make it look smart and snappy...
Title taken from accompanying note. A close-up photo of a raft race in progress. Everybody is waring orange life jackets. On one raft is a tall chamber on whose walls is painted "[Kinge ?] Kup 109".