Title taken from caption. The "Atlanta" is most likely the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Atalanta". From May's journal, dated May 21st: "The Atlanta [sic], a Coast Guard ship stationed at Seattle, escorted us out for a mile or two with the relatives and...
Title taken from caption. View of church at Praeobrajenskoe, Medny Island, Russia. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Aleš Hrdlička with the captain of the U.S. Navy cargo ship Sirius. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Animal bones found being passed aboard on right." Original image blurred. View of Ales Hrdlicka climbing aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa off the coast of Bering Island. Photograph taken...
Title taken from caption. View of buildings on the outskirts of Nikolskoye Village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of the deck of the U.S. Navy cargo ship Sirius. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
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...
Title taken from caption. A man climbs a rope ladder stretching from the bow of the S.S. Hope down to the ice surrounding the ship. Between the coasts of Canada and Greenland in the Labrador Sea.
Title taken from caption. Men on the bow of the S.S. Hope with ice surrounding the ship. Between the coasts of Canada and Greenland in the Labrador Sea.
Title taken from caption. View of the S.S. Hope surrounded by ice, near Cape Mercy, Labrador Sea, between the coasts of Greenland and Canada. A rope ladder appears to have been lowered from the bow of the ship, men cross the ice in front of the...
Title taken from caption. Remains of what was purported to be the St. Peter, Vitus Bering's ship, shipwrecked off of Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of schoolchildren in Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of a Russian official. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Soviet flag flying above a house in Praeobrajensko, Medny Island, Russia. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of the village of Nikolskoye, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.