Title taken from front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
Image is of the wreck of Schooner Joe Matthews on June 21, 1910 near Cape Darby, Alaska. Additional information from Coast Seamen's Journal, vol. 23 no. 41: June 29, 2010, page 5.
Three women and one man stand on the end of a railroad car, on what seems to be a platform of some kind. Writing on the railroad car reads: "Alaska Northern." Also written on the car is the number "23." The people are...
Relief shown by hachures. "The dots colored thusly [black dot] indicate the forts and principal stations of the Hudson's Bay Company." Decorative border and several detailed illustrations. "The illustrations by H. Warren & Engraved by R....
Caption: Miners from Flat, Alaska, set up a tripod for setting the Winnie Mae upright so that the airplane can be repaired. The Winnie Mae hit a patch of mining tailings, during Wiley Post's solo round the world flight, and nosed over. The Winnie...
2 maps on one sheet. 31 x 23 cm. or smaller, on sheet 40 x 47 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Page 87 from H. H. Lloyd & Co.'s Atlas of the United States. Decorative border. In color.
Published by Warner & Beers in [1875?]. Scale is not...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: Aleutian Islands. Page 171 of Atlas of the world. Text and engraved illustrations on verso (p. 172): Sitka, Alaska. Green tint around edges of Alaska; remainder of map not colored. 23 x 30...
Relief shown by hachures and depths shown by soundings. Components: Sketch of anchorage, Chiachi Islands, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska -- Sketch of Semidi Islands, Chirikof Island and Lighthouse Rocks, Alaska -- Falmouth Harbor, Nagai Island, Shumagin...
Relief shown by hachures. Illustrations by H. Warren, engraved by J. H. Kernot. Illustrationed with scenes of Skorskarskoi Pagost, Troitsk, and Kamchatka. Decorative border. 22 x 30 cm.
Published in London and New York by John Tallis &...
2 maps on one sheet. Relief shown by hachures. From The Royal illustrated atlas, 1854-1862. Components: Welllington Channel, Melville Island &c., from Admiralty chart -- The Arctic regions, showing the north-west passage as determined by Cap. R....
2 maps on one sheet. Relief shown by hachures. From The Royal illustrated atlas, 1854-1862. Components: Welllington Channel, Melville Island &c., from Admiralty chart -- The Arctic regions, showing the north-west passage as determined by Cap. R....
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Astrological & magnetic observations and topography by the party in charge of Assist. G. Davidson in 1867. The soundings are from Russian authorities." No. 23.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...