Title taken from image (in Thomas W .Benham's handwriting). Formal portrait of John C. Cantwell, a lieutenant in the Revenue Cutter Service. He is wearing a beaded jacket. He explored the Kobuk River (also known as the Kowak River) in 1884-1885....
View of the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service cutter the "Richard Rush" moored in Sitka Harbor. The Rush was a sister ship of the "Thomas Corwin". Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from image (handwritten by Thomas W.Benham). View of the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service cutter "Bear" with steam launch heading out to sea. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "(2 weeks in this position.)" View of the Revenue Cutter Bear surrounded by ice near Barrow. Two men stand on the ice beyond the bow of the ship. An unreadable photographer's number is on the bottom...
Title taken from caption. View of a U.S. Revenue Cutter in the Juneau harbor, Alaska. Caption also says: "One of the U.S. Revenue Cutters anchored in harbor in Juneau, Alaska. April 13th." Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition...
Four crewmen use hammers and axes to chop ice from the deck and rigging of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Ungala while it is at sea in the Gulf of Alaska. From verso: "Icebound Jan 1917. Revenue Cutter Ungala. Between [Situk?] and Yakutat Bay running into...
View of the U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service cutter the "Thomas Corwin" at sea. The Corwin occasionally had two spars on the foremast and two long boats per side. Original photograph size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch.
Title taken from front. Color view of United States Revenue Cutter Bear and S.S. Corwin in ice at Nome, Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number 997. 1920's. Photographer: Lomen Bros., Nome. Original photograph size:...
Title from image U.S.R.C. "Bear" and S.S. Corwin Roadstead, Nome, Alaska Color tinted view of the BEAR and the CORWIN; stacks of ice line the shore in foreground
Title from image Eleven people pose on the deck of Coast Guard Revenue Cutter BEAR; full title reads, the survivors of the S. S. "Karluk" of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, rescued from Wrangel Island by the schooner "King and Winge"