1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory.Named in 1869 by G. Davidson, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), because it appeared to be a shallow lagoon fed by silt laden glacial streams. In 1778 Captain James Cook (1785, v. 28, p....
2 maps on one sheet. Shows present-day Angoon area and Kootznahoo Inlet on the west coast of Admiralty Island and present-day Wrangell Harbor. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "From a sketch by G. Davidson,...
3 maps on one sheet. Depths shown by soundings. "Issued May 1885, C. O. Boutelle, assist. in charge of office." Stamped: Aids to navigation corrected for information received to Oct. 14, 1880. Components: Tolstoi Bay, Clarence Strait, S.E....
3 maps on one sheet. Shows Tongass Island, Kanagunut Island, Sitklan Island and portions of Chichagof Island. Relief shown by hachures. "From a sketch by George Davidson…" "Drawn by H. Lindenkohl." Components: Passages to Fort Tongass --...
43 X 31 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Inset: Continuation [of Port Levasheff]. Includes notes on navigation, soundings, and tides. "Topography, shorelines, magnetics and most of the soundings, from...
5 maps on one sheet. From Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth ed., vol. XIX, Plate 2. Components: North circumpolar chart -- South circumpolar chart -- [Arctic islands of Canada and west coast of Greenland] -- [Smith Sound region] -- [Spitzbergen and...
5 maps on one sheet. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Components: Yakutat Bay, Gulf of Alaska -- Sketch of Middleton Island, Alaska -- Sketch of Lituya Bay, Alaska -- Sketch of entrance to Lituya Bay, Alaska -- Port Mulgrave,...
6 maps on one sheet. Components: Chart of Iliuliuk Harbor, Unalaska -- Sketch of Sannak Ids. And reefs, Alaska -- Sketch of Acherk Harbor, Sannak I. -- Sketch of Port Moller, north side, Alaska Peninsula, Bering Sea -- Sketch of St. Matthew and...
6 maps on one sheet. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "Aids to navigation corrected for information received to May 11, 1895." Components: Chart of Iliuliuk Harbor, Unalaska -- Sketch of St. Matthew and adjoining islands --...
[Northern Native camp along coast, possibly near the village of Tanuak; an animal hide is stretched between posts of a frame; a kayak rests on a support, which may be a tusk; a sailing ship is visible offshore.] Photographer’s number 343.
A view of Petersburg, Alaska from the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.