Title taken from front of left photo (G1833). Panoramic view of partially completed Alaska Engineering Commission railroad bridge over Hurricane Gulch in Southcentral Alaska during construction. Also from front of G1833: "A.E.C. G-1833." From front...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Shows area surrounding the Gulf of Boothia (including part of Baffin & Somerset Islands). Relief shown by hachures. With six small engravings illustrating different coastlines, with a focus on the coastline of southern part of Somerset Island. ...
Relief shown by hachures. "Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." "Using information from Hudson Bay Comps. M.S.S. Parry, Franklin, Beechey, Graab &c." No. 72 of A series of maps, modern and...
K Zapiskam Gidrograficheskago departamenta ch. 2[?] str. 1 i 367. Shows Novaia Zemlia, Karskoe more, Zemlia IAmal, and route of Pakhtusov in 1834 and 1835. With (on verso): Plan Gavani Taiakhonsiti : sniat s briga Chichagova 1836 goda....
Full title: The Aleut language, the elements of Aleut grammar with a dictionary in two parts containing basic vocabularies of Aleut and English, by Richard Henry Geoghegan; edited by Fredericka I. Martin.
Captures some of the landmarks and landscapes found in Wrangell; these include: the harbor, a totem pole, Wrangell Fire Department, the Wrangell Sentinel, the post office, a building labelled "Campbell Brothers", the 49th Star Theatre, and a wooden...