Relief shown pictorially. Shows major routes of exploration. From Thomas Jefferys and others, The American atlas. Series: A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and...
View of sign on Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refinery Company office building at Sagavanirktok River in Northern Alaska. Sign reads: "Sag River State No. 1. Atlantic Richfield-Humble. This well is the confirmation well of the...
Title from verso. "Seismic exploration 'cat' train, in the foreground, was at work on Alaska's North slope in 1969 while exploratory drilling continued nearby. (Atlantic Richfield photo)."
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...
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Insets: North Star Bay -- Omenak Fiord -- Disko Bay. "Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty Decr. 14th 1852." "Fredk. H. Hoadley, No. 9,...
Relief shown pictorially. Components: Selon Sanson en 1650. -- Selon Delisle en 1700. -- Selon Delisle en 1703. -- Carte de la Baye d'Hudson parcourue en 1746 et 1747 par Henri Ellis pour la recherche du passage par le Nord-Ouest. Suppl. Cart 9e...
Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Continuation of Smith's Sound to the northward on reduced scale. Shows the arctic islands of North America, including the western tip of Greenland. Extensive place names along the coastlines. Outlines of land hand...
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...
Title from verso. Full comment from verso reads: "Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the discovery well for the giant Prudhoe Bay field, is enclosed in a metal building in this 1969 photograph. The discovery well, drilled in 1968 by ARCO/Exxon,...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "First development at Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope, is pictured above in 1969. At center is ARCO's operations center, and adjoining it is a small topping plant to produce diesel fuel for...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "Cluster of modular units is home to seismic crew during early North Slope exploration. The units, pulled across the frozen tundra with caterpillar tractors, became known as 'cat trains.' "
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A workman uses a blowtorch to thaw a thread protectons [sic]link of casing pipe during early Prudhoe Bay exploratory drilling."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Hercules C-130 aircraft lands on ARCO's Prudhoe Bay airstrip to supply exploratory drilling operations late in 1969. The huge aircraft made it possible to transport drill rigs to the North...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Drill rig is illuminated in Arctic sunset/sunrise during winter of 1969-1970. During 56 days in winter, the sun never rises above the horizon in Alaska's far north."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Equipment used for seismic exploration on Alaska's North Slope in 1969 includes a shot hole drill, at left foreground, and a Nodwell tracked vehicle at center. At right in one of the portable...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, dances across the Arctic sky in this photo taken at Prudhoe Bay on a cold winter's night in 1969."
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "Confirmation well, which verified the discovery for the Prudhoe Bay oil field, was the Sag River State No. 1, drilled in 1968. The discovery well, Prudhoe bay State No. 1, was completed as a gas...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A drilling rig sends out a spray of steam during exploratory work at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. The well which discovered the huge oil field had previously been drilled but additional wells, such as...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A tugboat and barges, used to lighter freight from larger ocean-going barges after their arrival on Alaska's North Slope, maintain a lonely vigil after freezeup in the fall on 1969."