Title and description (except in brackets) from photo verso. [Fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch capsized under a wave that hit the ship.] USCG Storis (WMEC 38) and the 96 - foot crabber Alaskan Monarch. Alaskan Monarch went aground Mar. 15, 1990 on...
Description from photo verso. A Coast Guard rescue helicopter (turbin-powered Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King) from Kodiak prepares to hoist the crew from the ice-beset fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch off St. Paul Island, in the Bering Sea March 15, 1990. ...
58 second film clip, color silent. From title frame: "Moving Images Collection". Film show whales surfacing at a breathing hole in the ice, the hole is surrounded by people watching and filming them.
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
Title from sleeve. Ketchikan firemen practice rescues by tossing a crewman on a trampoline. Ladder truck parked behind. Houses and cars in a parking lot visible in distance. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
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...
United States military personnel board ship's boats to travel to the wreck of the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
The U.S.S. Curb, Coast Guard cutter Onandaga, and other rescue boats at the scene of the shipwreck of the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. 1946. Original size of photograph: 2 1/2" x 3 3/4".
Passengers are assisted into a U.S. Navy launch during rescue operations for the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service of Seward, Alaska. G. McCreary. 3 copies." 1946. Photographer: G. McCreary. Original size of...
Title from accompanying notes. A man attached to a rope on his way out of a crevasse. A pick axe and rope lie below him on the snow and ice that had collapsed.