Shows Northwestern America and the northeastern tip of Asia, including an enormous and prominent false "Mer l'Ouest" as well as a clear North West Passage; based on the rare De L'Isle map which supposedly chronicled the discoveries of one "Admiral...
Sign in image reads: American Forest Week, April 22-28, 1928, A Week to Think and Talk of Forest Benefits, Timber - Water - Health. Cross section of a Sitka Spruce tree, with rings marked to indicate the dates of notable historical events: The...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from verso. Panoramic photograph of six men standing on a lake shore near an oil prospecting camp. Full caption from verso reads: "Prospecting for oil in Katalla. This is the Cudahy Company's oil outfit on the shores of Bering...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Possibly on the Bering Sea coast. Photo taken from rear musher's perspective. Teams crossing a snowy plain. Slide labeled, 'Photo copyright Joe Redington Sr. Knik, Original format: 35mm color...
Title taken from caption. "Ice Hummocks in Bering Sea." Photographers number: D3 Cataloguer's note: This is a spectacular view with massive ice formations. The dog sled team and the two men appear to be taking a rest.
Title taken from caption. "Revenue Cutter ' Bear' arriving at Valdez, Alaska Sept. 26, 1908 with Japanese seal poacher." Cataloguer's note: From 1874 - 1913 the Revenue Cutter Service operated under the authority of the United States...
Title taken from caption. A Soviet serviceman and a teacher pose for a portrait in Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. A teacher and school children pose for the camera in the school at Nikolskoye, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Alan May corrects this elsewhere in his diary text: not Bering's grave but a monument erected to him 150 years after his death. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the...
Title taken from caption. Alan May displaying his camera to the schoolteacher at Nikolskoye, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Approaching Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Animal bones found being passed aboard on right." Original image blurred. View of Ales Hrdlicka climbing aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa off the coast of Bering Island. Photograph taken...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Finley. Dempwolfe. Keilhorn. White. Belfort. Senator Thomas. Garcia." According to official reports and the Fourth of July program, the proper title and spelling of names is as follows: Commander G.T....
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Paden, Guill, the Doctor, the Captain, Lazerof, Clemes and myself." Party departing the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone for Nikolskoe village on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Probably a porpoise." Handwritten below: "or beluga." View of a man crouched over the skeletal remains of a marine mammal. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "The small cross was erected many years later and then after this rotted out, the large one." Gravesite of Vitus Bering on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's...
Title taken from caption. Dr. Hrdlicka looks on while Lt. Lazerof, a Soviet officer, tries to read the inscription on the cross marking Vitus Bering's grave. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...
Title taken from caption. From May's journal, dated June 29th: "By evening we had reached False Pass, which flows between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. ...Beyond the Pass lay Round Top, Isnotski [sic] and Sheshaldin [sic], the three most...