Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading. Shows portion of Clarence Strait, based on descriptions from the steamship Nikolai I in 1839. With (on verso): Karta Baltiiskago Moria [Map of the Baltic Sea]. Signed by George Davidson,...
Title taken from caption. View of buckwheat seedlings grown in ash with different fertilizers added as marked by the labels attached to each pot. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...
Hand colored. Includes illustrative cartouche and scale bars, as well as a coat of arms and dedication to Guilielmo Backer de Corneliis by Joh. Blaeu. Originally created in 1638 for the Theatrum orbis terrarum, dedication added in 1642. May be...
Title taken from caption. "11517 -- [18] Sledding over the ice of an Alaskan river on long journeys is an undertaking both tedious and perilous. Storms and biting frosts entail great discomfort as well as threaten life. During pleasant...
Description: moose hide; smoked; beads; leather; string; sinew; thread; sewn; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of round-toed moccasins with large vamp and high ankle flaps, made of smoked moose hide and decorated with spot stitch...
Caption: Reindeer shed their horns every year. The male shed six weeks earlier than the female, so that during the fawn season the mother may protect the young.
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...
Portrait of two servicemen and a spaniel posing on a wooden stairway. The number 411 on the post appears to have been added to the negative of the image. From verso: "Chris Nerby top right."
View of village of Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, location of U.S. Government Reindeer Project. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W. Wells,...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
"Watch Alaska! "Opportunity... "Pilots and mechanics Alaska Star airlines is growing! To keep pace with today's urgent wartime requirements and gear up for the increased passenger, mail, express and freight...
(7:29 min) (10 of 17) Exciting and scary situations
Teaching in Ft. Yukon, went to Fairbanks then headed back with heavy load. Ft. Yukon ice fogged in, headed back to Fairbanks, White Mountains were fogged in too, had to climb over top. ...
81 second film clip, black & white/silent, showing a thermometer reading 48 degrees below zero, and scenes of Fairbanks in winter. Scenes are from rooftops and elevated perspectives showing downtown's 1st and 2nd avenue, Cushman Street and the...