View of tourist on giant block of ice at Arctic Ocean, Point Barrow, Alaska. From verso: "Giant ice cakes are thrust up in pressure ridges on the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow. This photo shows a tourist by one of them. Many visitors this winter...
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
Shows islands in the Canadian arctic. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "By the squadrons … up to MDCCCLIV." "Day & Sons, lith'rs. to the Queen."
Published in [London] by Day & Son in [1854?]. Scale is not given...
Title from caption. Photograph of the interior of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall. The membership, dressed in primarily white regalia, stand posed with hands out before them.
Signed "Rear Admiral M. White." Manuscript map on verso. Paper cut from margins of other maps attached with tape to make a drawing surface large enough for verso map.
Published in Poultry, England in 1851 by J.D. Potter. Scale is not...
Depths shown by soundings. Polar projection. Depths shown for Bering Sea only. "Published according to act of Parliament by Capt. Hurd, R.N., Hydrographer to the Admiralty, 14th. Feby. 1818."
Selective relief shown by hachures. Inset: Enlarged plan of Erebus & Terror Bay. Each route is separately shaded and referenced in legend. Hand colored.
Published in London by John Arrowsmith in 1851. Scale is not given (W118 00 W070...
Shows Baffin Bay, Melville Bay, Smith Strait, Peabody Bay & Kennedy Channel with corresponding coastlines of Greenland and Grinnell Land [i.e. Grinnell Peninsula]. Senate Ex. Doc., 1st session, 34th Congress ; no. 1. "Ackerman...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "J. & C. Walker, sculp." Originally published in 1853, with additions to 1855, corrected to 1859. "Sheet III." "2172." Signed and annotated by George Davidson, 1867. ...
Includes profiles of Wrangell Island, St. Paul's Island and Ugomok Island. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Drawn by Louis Waldecker." Corrected to 1891. "Additions and corrections, in 1889, by the...
Shows geological ages of formations and deposits. Includes legend. "Geological outlines,those of map published by Department of Interior, 1904." "Geology from results of various expeditions. Letters denote where fossil remains have been found in...
Map annotated by George Hubert Wilkins with flight paths and notes for expeditions including the 1927 Stinson biplane mishap that forced Wilkins and Eielson to walk across the ice to Beechey Point, the Wilkins-Eielson 1928 route, the Wilkins Flying...
"Peter John elected chief and his wife Susan in Arctic Village, The tall man is Guilbert Joseph a man from Anvik who married a woman from Arctic Village. The other man is unidentified." Visible in this photograph is a cabin with a flag out front...
Title by indexer. A side view of Arctic Air Service ski plane. Behind that is snow piled high on the ground. Behind the snow is a large white building with apparent electric lines from its roof. The side of the airplane reads: "Arctic Air...
Front view of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall building in Skagway, Alaska. The building front is covered with driftwood. Signs on the building include: "A B [Arctic Brotherhood]," "Camp Skagway No. 1," and "1899" above the doorway. ca. 1925.
This color slide depicts the U.S. Army Arctic Test Board (now known as Fort Greely) in 1962. The photograph was taken from the window of an airplane and shows three army officers, including one African-American man, standing in front of a building...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings and isolines. Oriented with north to the upper left. Shows tracks of the "Bear" on sea, summer and winter, and tracks of Lieut. Jarvis' and Dr. Calls' overland trip, Lieut....