Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "'Nigger head and the Spencer in the distance." The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) sits in Nikolski Bay to the right of the geographical feature now known as High Hill on...
View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Both the Spencer and Ariadne were waiting offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) for the seas to subside so that they...
Title taken from caption. View of Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island). From May's journal, dated June 5th: "We are still here...
Title taken from caption. Men on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne wait in the "lee of Ananolak Island" (i.e. Anangula Island or Ananiuliak Island) for safe passage to Nikolski. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian...