Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
57 second film clip, black & white with audio. The clip shows damage to four small villages on Kodiak Island by the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio relates personal experiences of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film...
49 second film clip, black & white with audio. The clip shows scenes of damage from the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio track describes the tsunami and experiences of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film "The Great...
47 second, black & white/silent, film clipof earthquake damage in Seward and Kodiak. The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake left the waterfronts devastated -- fires burning, automobiles and other debris floating in the water, ships cast up on shore,...
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 an excavated fire place at the dig site on Kodiak. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of "Ozzie" Osborne, Sidney Connor, and George Corner near a Russian Orthodox cemetery on Kodiak Island. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. View of the top of a native potato cellar near Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of house on shore of Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during a National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "The wife of a Coast Guardsman left this car for higher ground after leaving her husband aboard the Coast Guard Cutter BITTERSWEET (WAGL-389) on Nyman's Peninsula. The car literally floated...
Title taken from caption. View of an abandoned sheep shearing pen on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The posts have been sand-blasted by ash blowing in the wind, making them look like they have been painted white. Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
Aerial view of Kodiak, Alaska, following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 3/27/64. Many buildings are destroyed, and at least three boats are thrown ashore. A business sign on the...
Aerial view, probably over Kodiak, Alaska, with roads and the buildings visible through clouds. Air strip is also visible at right. From slide mount: "February 1961." 1961? Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland A. Olson.
Aerial view looking toward Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and Katmai National Park and Preserve area on Alaskan mainland as seen from above Kodiak Island, with airplane wing visible at left. From slide mount: "Over Kodiak Island--looking No[rth]...
Aerial distant view of Mount Iliamna (left) and Mount Redoubt (right), Alaska during flight from Homer to Kodiak. From slide mount: "Flying - Homer to Kodiak at horizon - Mt Iliamna left Mt. Redoubt Rt." 1955-1961. Photograph type: 35 mm color...