Signed "Rear Admiral M. White." Manuscript map on verso. Paper cut from margins of other maps attached with tape to make a drawing surface large enough for verso map.
Published in Poultry, England in 1851 by J.D. Potter. Scale is not...
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. From Bartholomew's Supplement to...
Caption reads: "Canadian-Arctic Expedition. Vilhjalmar [Vihjalmur] Stefansson in command. Outfitting at Darling and Dean, Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men and their dogs and dogteams gather in front of the store...
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....
Photograph with the following caption attached: Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska visits the Public Roads Administration camp in Whitehorse and is photographed with the ranking officers of the North-west Command. From left: Brigadier General...
Verso: Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, pins the Exceptional Service Award on Mr. Robert J. Fischer, Pt. Barrow, Alaska, civilian pilot.
Verso: Farewell gift to Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, is presented by Col. Stephen W. Henry, Eielson AFB commander. Senator Gruening and Congressman Rivers attended the reception for Gen. Necrason at Eielson AFB,...
Title from verso. Caption on verso reads: "Capt. Jack Ballerude, A.A.C. Med. C. 1941 Army Test Expedition." Bollerud was captain in the Alaska Air Command Medical Corps at Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1942. He joined the U.S....
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Capt. Harold Lund, A.A.C., 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Sgt. Muesser A.A.C. 1942 Army Test Expedition. (? Listed as Corporal in E. Nillson's diaries.)" The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942....
Title from verso. Men carry a litter across the landscape on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a Navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...
Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
Verso: Senator E. L. Bartlett, Major General James C. Jensen, and Major General George A. Carver, listen intently during a briefing about logistial activities of the Army Forces Headquarters during the Alaskan Command's winter training exercise,...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ AAC -- Mass Destruction -- Many small boats from the Seward dock area paid an unexpected visit to the Alaskan Railroad yards during the Good Friday earthquake. Here the area is shown littered with the remains...
Title taken from back of photo. "Aerial Recon (Reconnaissance) -- Two U. S. Air Force B 58 "Hustler" aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state such as this, the day after the Good Friday...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] --Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state...
Title taken from back of photo. "Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state such as this, the day after the Good Friday...
Title taken from back of photo. "Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state such as this, the day after the Good Friday...