View of the Kodiak waterfront in the late 19th century. Three of the buildings have been identified as: a warehouse, behind the large sailing vessel with its sails furled; the Custom House, above the warehouse between the far right masts; and the...
Shows Novaya Zemlya and northern continental coastline. Includes notes on 1594/95/96 discoveries. Relief shown pictorially. Illustrated with sailing ships, sea monsters, various people and animals of the region, as well as Barents's hut, where...
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Shows shipping routes. Shows North and Central America including Greenland and Iceland; north coast of Greenland undefined and partial coasts of "Ellesmere Land" and "Grinnell Land." Includes legend and testimonials. Relief shown by hachures and...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from caption. "Revenue Cutter ' Bear' arriving at Valdez, Alaska Sept. 26, 1908 with Japanese seal poacher." Cataloguer's note: From 1874 - 1913 the Revenue Cutter Service operated under the authority of the United States...
Title taken from caption. " S. S. Jeanie arriving at Valdez, with the first engine and rails for the Alaska Home Ry., Sept. 14, 1907 at 6 A.M." Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G1606.
Title taken from caption. " S. S. Saratoga on the rocks off Ellamar, Alaska, March 29, 1908. " Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G3056. Reproduced from a glass plate.
Title taken from caption. Accompanying note indicates that this is a view of "the Corea of San Francisco after the wreck." Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75- 741". 5 x 8 cyanotype.
Title taken from caption. "'Thistle' loading piles, Bear cove, Katchemak Bay." Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-746". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
Title taken from caption. "Steamer 'Jeannie' in Prince William's Sound, March 1891." [Library of Congress Authority file for 'Jeanie (Steam schooner)' identifies it as "supply vessel for the Pacific Steam Whaling Co." (referenced in...
Title taken from caption. "Anchorage at Kyak." [May be either Southcentral or Southeast Alaska; see note for UAF-1959-866-46.] Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-747". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
Title taken from caption. Accompanying note indicates the men in the background are Chinese. Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-749". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.