Shows tracks of various voyages, including Bering and Chirikov. Relief shown by hachures. "Republished by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty." Considered to be the first English edition of a map published by the Royal Academy of Sciences...
Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading. Shows portion of Clarence Strait, based on descriptions from the steamship Nikolai I in 1839. With (on verso): Karta Baltiiskago Moria [Map of the Baltic Sea]. Signed by George Davidson,...
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows Turnagain Arm and Prince William Sound east to Mt. St. Elias. Includes tracks of Vancouver's voyage. Inset: A Survey of Port Chalmers. No. 11 in Vancouver's A voyage of discovery to the North...
Title from verso. Information from cataloger's notes identifies people in the image as, Back Row: "Hendrixon -Mining Eng, Potts - Economist, Mrs. Johnson, Johnson - Magnetic Survey, Ryan - Education;" Front Row: "Fred Beeler, ---, ---, Mrs....
Relief shown pictorially. From Hydrographie Francoise, vol. II, no. 56, Paris, 1755. Remarks section includes legend to coloration of the map: Possessions of French outlined in blue, of English in yellow, and of Spanish in red. Longitude in...
Relief shown by hachures. From Stieler's Schul-Atlas, No. 19a. Borders colored in reference to the controlling power: Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Danish, Swedish.
Published in [Gotha] by [Justus Perthes] in [1841]. 17 x 22 cm. ...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Shows north coast of Russia with Nova Zemla, Norway, Sweden and Spitsbergen (shown as Greenland on map). From John Seller's The English Pilot, 1671. Hand colored. Illustrated with ships, fanciful creatures, compass rose and decorative cartouche....
"Waiting for the plane in Wiseman because Speaks is going out; up on the glacier;" Ike Speaks - far left, Mary Orok English seated next to Speaks holding Benny Ulen ?, Mrs...
Left to right: Sammy Hope, Carl Frank, Ludie Hope, Harold Wilcox (rear), Mrs. Bejanich, Bob Jones (rear), Tishu Ulen, Elizabeth White, ? (rear), Mrs. Pingle, George Hooey,...
Mary Orok English - Tishu's mother - left (also the mother of Bill English, the Wien Air and now Alaska Airlines executive, and Tishu's half-brother). Susie McNeal - right....
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza with a log cabin in the background. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first morning, before...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Old Eliza walking in Stevens Village with a log building in the background. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first...
Title from caption. Photograph of soldiers preparing to clear a gun emplacement on Attu Island, Alaska. Caption reads: "Ny 901 -- Two Jap [ Japanese ]soldiers were entrenched in this gun emplacement on the west arm of Holtz Bay, Attu. ...
"Possible only in a democratic Army such as ours -- Officers and men in a friendly group--Capt. Douglass; Lieut. C.H. Crumrine; Lieut. Ross C. Kirkpatrick; Lieut. Eric C. Nelson; Sergeant Albert Vierra, Master...
Title from donor notes. Photograph of Donald Oktollik and Rowland Cox. From donor notes: "Donald Oktollik served as interpreter during sermons, for the benefit of the older people (and also younger people, mostly men, who had missed out on...
Title by indexer. Photograph of a sermon given in St. Thomas Church, Point Hope, Alaska. Full donor notes read: "Donald Oktollik served as interpreter during sermons, for the benefit of the older people (and also younger people, mostly...