Title by cataloguer. This view is reminiscent of "Killing Fur Seals," and other images depicted by Henry Wood Elliott (1846 - 1930). In this picture a group of men are seen in the process of killing the fur seals.
Possibly from Mitchell's New universal atlas. Inset: Wilkes' discoveries [in Antarctica] Decorative border. Colors indicate nationality of ownership. Hand colored. 29 x 38 cm.
Published in [Philadelphia] by [S. Augustus Mitchell] in...
View of Church of the Dormition, a Russian Orthodox church, Kenai, Alaska. From verso: "Old Russian church Kenai built in 1846 and still standing. This was taken in 1952. Shrine over the body of Abbot Nicholai & two or 3 other R[ussian] O[rthodox]....
Original 1846 edition of the fundemental work on the Aleut language, the Eastern (Fox Island) dialect.
Published in 1846 in St. Petersburg, Russia by the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Physical description: 237p. File type: PDF 44.44MB
Notes on the Tlingit and Kad'iak languages and some on others within the Russian-American possessions, with appended Russian-Tlingit dictionary. Compiled by Ivan Veniaminov in Sitka. 1st ed. St. Petersburg, 1846.
An attempt to...
Shows Russian America and the western part of British possessions in what is now Canada. Relief shown by hachures. In top margin: Geografia Commerciale. Prime meridian: Ferro. No publication date, however, details of the outline of the north...