Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...
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...
Portrait traditionally identified as Vitus Jonassen Bering. This identification is questioned, following the discovery in 1991 of Bering's remains and the forensic reconstruction of his facial features. Portrait is possibly Vitus Pedersen Bering,...
Title taken from caption. View of the cross makring Vitus Bering's grave on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Wood purported to be the remaining piece of the St. Peter, Vitus Bering's ship shipwrecked on a Bering Island reef. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. Remains of what was purported to be the St. Peter, Vitus Bering's ship, shipwrecked off of Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
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...
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...
Title taken from caption. View of Aleš Hrdlička, Captain Noble G. Ricketts, and the Executive Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa traveling in a launch to the village of Nikolskoe on Bering Island. From May's journal, dated July...
Title taken from front. View of lighthouse and buildings at Scotch Cap, Alaska on Bering Sea. 1920's. Photographer: Alaska Shop. Postcard. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4 7/8".
Title taken from front. Group of men having lunch on ice floe during walrus hunt on Bering Sea. Photographer's number 139. 1920's? Photographer: H.G. Kaiser. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5 1/4".
Aerial view of amphibious craft on the beach and approaching from ocean; sandy. landing spit is between West Kiska Lake and Bering Sea Photographer's number 348-9
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. Over 90% of the world's Parakeet Auklets occur in the Bering Sea region. Most nest in small, scattered groups or as solitary pairs, but some 150,000 birds nest on St. George Island in the...
View of ice on Bering Sea near Nome, Alaska. Man stands in far background holding gun and sled, with dead seal on ice in front of him. From front: "340." From verso: "Breaking up of Bering Sea Nome - Alaska." Photographer's number 340. ca....
Title taken from front. Men with dog sleds freighting goods from the S.S. Corwin 4 miles over Bering Sea ice to Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number A996. June 2, 1907. Photographer: Goetze Photo.