Title taken from caption. The cook for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne poses for a photograph. Caption continues: "Life preservers hung out to dry." Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
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. 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...
United States military personnel examine the wreck of the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. Sign on ship reads: "No admittance." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
Image shows what seems to be the crew of the United States Revenue Cutter "Bear." The crew is standing for a group portrait, with a life preserver imprinted with "USRC Bear" and two goats in the front of the picture. ...
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".
Title from accompanying materials. Vessel Klondyke at dock, four men in suits on deck and captain on bridge. The name "Klondyke" can be made out on the life preserver and to the left of one of the smokestacks. At far left, parts of the words...
Title from accompanying material. Sailors on board U.S.C.C. Bear (Revenue cutter). There appears to be an animal, possibly a duck or a goat, in the middle of the life preserver.
Title from accompanying material. Sailors on board U.S.C.R. Bear in 1915, holding a life preserver with the ship's name written on it and a small animal, possibly a goat, standing in the middle. This is an enlargement of a portion of...
Title from accompanying material.
The crewmen of the Bear are posing here on the deck of the ships with a goat who is standing inside of a life preserver with the ship's name printed on it.
Title taken from caption. View of people on and in front of the steamship Santa Anna while it was docked in Kodiak. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of the stern of the steamship Santa Anna while docked in Kodiak. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of boat passing by as National Geographic expedition goes through Port Moller, Alaska, with another boat in background. Printing on first boat reads: "Arctic" and printing on life preserver reads: "Arctic Bellingham."...
Title taken from caption. View of two gas boats pulling the ship "Dora" off the mud at Port Moller, Alaska. Boat at left is "Bear of Bellingham" and boat at right is "Arctic Bellingham." Also from caption: "Gas boats pulling the Dora off the mud at...
Title taken from caption. View of men along Naknek Packing Company dock as National Geographic expedition leaves Naknek, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.