Jim and John Jefferies hold a string of black bass between them in Seward, Alaska. Jim Jefferies is possibly James J. Jeffries, the boxer, who visited Seward with his brother John. From front: "100 black bass caught by Jim & John Jefferies. L.N.G....
View of a cemetery in Seward, Alaska surrounded by small buildings. Possibly in the present day (2004) area between Second and Third Avenue near railway. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/4".
Early cemetery in Seward, Alaska, with buildings in the background. Cemetery is possibly in the area of what is now (as of 2004) between Second and Third Avenues near the railroad. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3" x 3 1/4".
The lobby of the hotel, the Coleman House, with many Indian baskets, animal hides and heads with spittoon between the chairs. Original size of photographs: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from front. Dog team and group on sled on the trail somewhere between Nome and Seward in Alaska. Martin Lanning is standing on back of sled. 1909. Photographer: S. Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Three men with huge bear hide strung up between poles on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Tent stands in the background. 1905-1910? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5/1/2" x 3 1/2".
Seward, Alaska waterfront as seen from the dock at the end of Fourth Avenue. Buildings and tents line the waterfront and three skiffs are anchored between the dock and the beach. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 4".
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Ms, mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Shows part of Kupreanof Strait [Narrow Strait] between Spruce Island and Kodiak Island. Signed by George Davidson, numbered 204. With (on verso): Karta vkhoda k...
Title from accompanying notes. In the distance are several men who are climbing to the saddle between two mountain peaks. In the foreground are cliffs of snow.
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Shows Udagak Strait, between Unalaska and [Sedanka] Island, from observations of fleet Captain Sarychev in 1792. Plate 15 from Sarychev's Atlas sievernoi...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island and a coastline, Terrae Esonis, between the northern tip of California and what is possibly the Kamchatka Peninsula. Illustrated with various peoples of the New World. Hand colored....
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundary between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in Bering Strait.
Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...