Transcript of diary kept by Myrtle Ryan (later Bunger) in 1900 that describes her journey to and life in Dawson in the Yukon Territory and Nome, Alaska. Myrtle recounts how she traveled from Los Angeles, California to Skagway by boat in January...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Sophie (right) and the cook backgammoning in Shelikof strait, or somewhere." View of two men playing acey deucey, a variant of backgammon. From May's journal, dated June 29th: "About noon we passed Mitrofania...
Title taken from caption. View of expedition members aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa awaiting permission to land at Bering Island. Alan May is third from the left. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's...
Title taken from caption. View of a boat on shore of Bering Island, near the village of Nikolskoye. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of inhabitants of the village of Nikolskoye on Bering Island taking leave of the expedition party returning to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's...
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. 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...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Unalaska’s principal street, with Sears & Roebuck-clad Aleuts approaching the sign." Street view of Unalaska showing several wooden buildings and three residents walking along a gravel street past a welcome...
(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
Relief shown pictorially. Outline color. Azimuthal projection, North Pole. Shows Hudson Bay east to Bering Strait; western arctic labeled "Parts Unknown." Includes notes regarding the path of the sun and stars, as well as the search, by...
Relief shown pictorially. Azimuthal projection, North Pole. Shows Hudson Bay east to Bering Strait; western arctic labeled "Parts Unknown." Includes notes regarding the path of the sun and stars, as well as the search, by Frobisher and Davis,...
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...
Map of Asian Russia, including Bering Strait and part of the western coast of Alaska. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Embossed with the seal de l'Auteur. No. 43 of Brue's Atlas universel de geographie physique.
Title taken from verso. On verso a letter from the Public Information Division of the United States Coast Guard, dated 14 November 1948, is printed. The letter says the following about this photo: "Offical U.S. Coast Guard Photo. United...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows Hudson's Bay & Great Lakes area, including southern tip of Greenland & Baffin Island. From Cape Blanco north there is only a dotted line extending to the northeast toward Rankin Inlet, with no indication of the...
Title taken from front. Men and woman with dog teams on frozen Bering Sea, Nome, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Judge S.C. Henton & dog team at handle bars of sled with woman on it." Photographer's number 4836. May...
Title taken from front. Men ice fishing for tomcod on Bering Sea ice, Nome, Alaska. Man in foreground fishes from a sled set on its side through holes in the ice, with his catch piled in front of him. Photographer's number A615. n.d. Photographer:...
Title taken from front. Group of men gathered on Bering Sea coastline in Nome, Alaska, at the end of storm, with man aboard ship in center as it lists to the left. Photographer's number A-193. June 26, 1901. Photographer: O.D.G.
Title taken from front. View of Alaskan steamship stuck in ice jam on Bering Sea, with people on deck. From verso: "Made in America by Edw. H. Mitchell at San Francisco." Publisher's number 2011. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Postcard...