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...
Title from accompanying note. "'After the Tragedy - This group of men, all of whom figured prominently in the life of Ben Eielson, are shown as they stood together at an unidentified location in Fairbanks after Eileson's and Borland's bodies had...
Title by indexer. In this winter scene a group of men are standing a short distance from an aircraft. The nose of the aircraft is covered with a white cloth. The side reads "Fokker" and "Detroit Arctic Expedition. G.H. Wilkins...
Shows Shelikoff Strait east to Mt. Fairweather, Alaska. Selective relief shown by hachures; depths show by soundings. "Compiled from U.S.C. Survey Charts nos. 701, 702, 786, 798, 806 and 960; Hydrographic Chart no. 68; Russian charts; and from...
Includes key to abbreviations. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Conic projection. Engraved by Matthews, Northrup & Co. Compiled from U.S.C. Survey charts nos. 701, 702, 756, 786, 798, 806 and 960;...
Includes key to abbreviations. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Conic projection. Engraved by Matthews, Northrup & Co. Compiled from U.S.C. Survey charts nos. 701, 702, 756, 786, 798, 806 and 960;...
Includes key to abbreviations. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Conic projection. Engraved by Matthews, Northrup & Co. Compiled from U.S.C. Survey charts nos. 701, 702, 756, 786, 798, 806 and 960;...
Title from verso. Arriving at the ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome on Easter Sunday afternoon, 1944. Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, commanding General of the Alaskan Division, gets a handshake from Col. N. S. Vasin, commander of the Russian...
From verso: Col. Castner, commander of the Alaskan G-2 Combat Scouts, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. . . Their mission was to wipe out any Japanese outpost and to give the signal to the force for entry into Adak Harbor.
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...
This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...