76 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows two sternwheelers, the Alice and the General J. W. Jacobs, traveling on the Yukon River. A short segment near the end shows dogs tied up on a barge.
Title taken from caption. View of J. W. Shipley setting up and using his chemical laboratory. Identity based on fact that Shipley is the only chemist listed as part of the 1917 expedition. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai...
Title taken from caption. View of J.W. Shipley, the expedition chemist, walking across a tree over a gully in the mudflow. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society...
Photograph of a group of men posing outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Office in Rampart House, Yukon Territory, Canada. The men are identified as Charlie Ellingsen, Bishop, J. W. MacCormack, Frank Jackson, E. A. Cook, Jim Jackson.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Str. Gen. Jacobs leaving Nenana with men drafted for war. June 1917". [The full name and dates of the Sternwheeler is as follows: General J. W. Jacobs ( 1908 - 1940 ).]
Title taken from caption. Photograph of a log cabin with a corrigated metal roof and arctic entry. Also visible is a sternwheeler transport that may be delivering equipment for the WAMCATS construction and upgrade.
Title taken from caption. Also from caption: " Peak of Mageik in background." View of three members of the National Geographic expedition to Katmai area in front of their tent. J.W. Shipley was a chemist, Clarence F. Maynard was a topographer, and...
Title from image. Eleven men on the porch of the Sunrise Hotel. Signs in image: Board and Lodging. H.S. Waterman Assayer Seward, Alaska. Photographer's number 75.
Title taken from caption "A cottonwood tree buried in the ash. The curious branching shows that it had reached the limits of heights possible under the climatic conditions." View of two members of the expedition with a cottonwood tree. The trees...
Title taken from caption. View of Clarence F. Maynard testing his equipment near Kodiak. Identity based on fact that Maynard is the only topographer listed as part of the 1917 expedition. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on...
Title taken from caption. View of the arrival of the expedition at the shore of Katmai Bay. The men are unloading their supplies from boats before returning to the ship in the distance for more. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai...
Title taken from caption. View of the lava plug of Novarupta from the crater rim. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917....
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition collecting gas samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917....
Title taken from caption. Man standing at Fissure Lake in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. Also from caption: "Note the steam rising...
Title taken from caption. Three carpenters mend a small boat at Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917. Photographer: J.W. Shipley.