Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading; depths shown by soundings. Depth in sazhens [approx. 2.13 meters], from the chart of Mr. La Perouse, supplemented from the surveys of Captain Lieutenant Zarembo. Signed, with annotations, by...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Shows Udagak Strait, between Unalaska and [Sedanka] Island, from observations of fleet Captain Sarychev in 1792. Plate 15 from Sarychev's Atlas sievernoi...
Ms. (blueprint copy). Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the upper right. Inset: Uyak Bay : sketch showing relative position of Uyak Anchorage and Larsens Bay. Signed by George Davidson, with note: "From Captain Niebaum, Dec....
Shows Franklin's route in 1819, 1820 and 1821. Dedicated to Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, Captain of the Shannon (the British ship that defeated the Chesepeake in the War of 1812), by Henry Martin Leake.
Ms. in ink. Relief shown by hachures. Title from verso. Shows route of Franklin's journey in 1819-22. Watermark on paper: "Slade 1818." Drawn on three joined sheets of varying size. Hand colored. Author may be James Burney.
Shows locations of relics of the Franklin Expedition and the routes of the Ross, Osborn, Browne, Rae, Collinson, Anderson, M'Clintock, Hobson, and Young expeditions. Inset: Probable route of the Franklin Expedition. In color.
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Relief shown by shading. Shows a portion of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Arctic Canada, including the locations of Eskimo tent-rings and winter houses and the Fram's winter quarters. Mounted on paper.
Relief shown by hachures and form lines; depths shown by soundings. "From observations at the observatory at Thank God Harbor." Includes comparison chart of tidal relations and numerous profiles of coastline. Dissected and mounted on linen....
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Insets: Zaliv Avacha sy karty Kapitan Bich [Avacha Bay from the chart of Captain Beechey] -- Port Petropavlovsk. Annotated with pencil drawing of profile view of the entrance to...
"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Ralph and Ida Savory in the cockpit of a Boeing 707-320 just prior to Take-Off non stop London to Seattle, October 13, 1969. This was the final flight for Pan Am, mandatory...
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Photograph of ski-mounted Pilgrim 100B plane at Weeks Field. Smoke stacks in a background are from the Chena River Powerplant. Full caption reads:
"Pilgrim 100B --- 750 H P Wright Cyclone Engine. ...
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...