View of buildings on fire during the November 23-24, 1941 Fourth Avenue fire in Seward, Alaska, which destroyed at least 16 businesses in the downtown area. Nov. 23-24, 1941. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 2 7/8".
[Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett meets with America[n] Legion Boys Nation representatives from Alaska during the Boys Nation convention in Washington D.C. William Brewington, Jr., 16, from Anchorage, 3rd from left, and Carlton R. Smith, 17, of...
Shows tracks of various voyages, including Bering and Chirikov. Relief shown by hachures. "Republished by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty." Considered to be the first English edition of a map published by the Royal Academy of Sciences...
Chart of entrance to Port Krestof, Kruzof Island (near Baranof Island). Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading; depths shown by soundings. With (on verso): Karta Porta Chatam [Chart of Port Chatham]. Signed by George Davidson,...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Includes tides table and key to composition of ocean bottoms. Surveyed by Lieut. F.M. Symonds and Master G.C. Hanus U.S.N.
Published in [Washington D.C.] by U.S. Coast and Geodetic...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Includes tides table and key to composition of ocean bottoms. Surveyed by Lieut. F.M. Symonds and Master G.C. Hanus U.S.N.
Published in [Washington D.C.] by U.S. Coast and Geodetic...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Plate 16 from Sarychev's Atlas sievernoi chasti Vostochnago Okeana, 1826. Includes illustration of largest Russian American Company settlement on Kodiak Island. Inset: Plan Pavlovskoi Gavani...
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Shows west coast of North America from Mt. St. Elias to Monteray Bay. No. 16 of Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse. Engraved by Neele.
Published in London by G.G. and J. Robinson in 1798....
Photograph of Arthur Nagozruk Jr. Charles E. Bunnell, the University President. Written on the back of the photograph is the following: "Arthur Nagozruk Jr., first full blood Eskimo to be graduated from the University of Alaska, and President...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Annotated by George Davidson with notes, place names and permutations of the Alaska-Canada boundary. "Aids to navigation corrected for information received to Feb. 16, 1903." ...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 4 & 5 OIL. 5 col x 36 PICA. 145. 36. Contractor's access road and bridge. The Chena River outlet works will be built in the stream at the center upper section of this photo. Sept. '74. Chena Outlet---."...
Title from image. Verso reads: "P.5 -OIL. 2 col x 25 1/2 PICAS. "Chena Sign --" Cutline. 100. 26." Verso also stamped with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers logo and the dates Sept. 1974 and Jan 16, 1975. Image shows a sign posted in...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 4 OIL. 3 col x 22 PICA. "Moose Creek Test---." Across the model is a section of the future Moose Creek Dam, with the outlet works on the Chena River in the center. Alaskan visitors are watching the flow...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 5 OIL. 3 col x 21 PICA. "Parallel Road---" On the west side of the dam there will be a paralleling access road. 90. 21." Verso is also stamped with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers logo and the...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "P. 4 OIL. 3 col x 22 PICA. Alaskan visitors at single-bay model. At left, Don Thurston of U S Fish & Wildlife Service, then Bill Bradfield of the Lab staff, Lab Director Pete Smith (hands in pockets), and John...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 5 OIL. 1 1/2 col x 18 PICA. "Chena Flow---." Close-up of a portion of the 100-foot long model of a 3-mile segment of the Chena River. Tinted water carrying strips of colored paper is passed down the...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 5 OIL. 1 1/2 col x 18 PICA. "Dam bed---." Fairbanks Resident Engineer truck on the foundation of the northern section of Moose Creek Dam. Higher level at right is the dam's future access road. 65. 18."...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "P. 4 OIL. 2 col x 30 PICA. Entrance to Lab. Office on grounds of Bonneville Dam. "Laboratory---" 130. 30." Verso is also stamped with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers logo and the dates Sept. 1974 and Jan...