2 maps of the North Pacific Ocean area printed on the same page. Suppl. 6e. carte in Diderot's Encyclopedia. Also published in Robert de Vaugondy's Recueil de 10 cartes. Relief shown pictorially.
Shows North Pacific Ocean. Includes Asia from the Philippines to Bering Strait as well as the Seward Peninsula, part of Bristol Bay, the Alaska Peninsula and some of the Aleutian Islands. Reference: Falk 1775-5.
Shows routes of Spanish voyages in the Pacific, including Northwest Coast of North America. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Sheet 2 of 2, includes Kamchatka, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii & most of Micronesia. Inset: Plano...
Title from accompanying notes. An ice-axe at the top of Mount Miyazaki, to which has been attached two flags (USA and Japan) and a placard.The names read: Peter E. Haase, Noburu Morikawa; Ryu Nakajima; Hiromasa Haneda. The sign has been dated...
Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Alternate title on verso within ornamental border. Based on discoveries by Verrazano. First map to show the two American continents as being attached, also names the Pacific Ocean and depicts Japan. Predominant...
Photograph of Marines in trenches during an air raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "America's west coast was threatened when Japan staged a surprise attack on Dutch Harbor, the U. S. Naval Base at the tip of Alaska. Here U. S. Marines are...
Title from caption. Photograph of Etta Jones holding two puppies. Verso reads: "Montague, Mich.: The long mystery concerning the fate of C. Foster Jones and wife Etta (above) who were the only white couple living on Attu when the Japs...
Title from verso. Photograph of C. Foster Jones holding a puppy. Verso reads: "Montague, Mich.: The long mystery concerning the fate of C. Foster Jones and wife Etta (above) who were the only white couple living on Attu when the Japs...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing snow off a roof. Verso reads: "Soldiers at a U.S. Army base in the Aleutians do a little old-fashioned snow shoveling to clear important points after a williwaw (howling blizzard to you)...
(5:10 min.) (06 of 08) Repairing the engines and hauling supplies during Vietnam spare parts for repairing engine; engines -- Alaska Steam ships; workshop onboard; replaced cylinder -- in port; Knot Ships -- Vietnam; ran supplies -- Army...
2 maps on 1 sheet. Relief shown by hachures. In color. Map of the Arctic regions by Buache; map of a portion of the Japanese Islands by Kaempfer. "Suppl. 6e carte" of Robert de Vaugondy's Recueil de 10 cartes.
"Dressee en 1764 par M***. Nouvelle edition reduite par M. de Vaugondy." "Suppl. 2e carte" of Robert de Vaugondy's "Recueil de 10 cartes". Wagner, 637.
Title taken from caption. "Harry Sotaro Kawabe: Issei businessman of Seward and Seattle". Further information includes: Kawabe was well-known for his businesses in Seward, and after World War II, in Seattle. He was one of the first...
Title taken from photograph.
Verso: Virginia Maru, of Mitsubishi Steamship Company, loading Ketchikan Spruce Mill's first export cargo to Japan at Ketchikan (2,340,000 Ft. BM), for account of Wrangell Lumber Company. The information above...
Verso: Virginia Maru, of Mitsubishi Steamship Company, loading Ketchikan Spruce Mill's first export cargo to Japan at Ketchikan (2,340,000 Ft. BM), for account of Wrangell Lumber Company.
Title by cataloger. View of active volcano. Visible are smoke plumes and snow sprinkled with ash. The volcano closely resembles one identified as Mount Shishaldin (on Unimak Island) in "North Pacific: Japan, Siberia, Alaska, Canada" by...