Relief shown pictorially. Inset: the north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland. Includes 5 large illustrations and a brief text description of the lifestyle of the Laplanders. "According to the newest and most exacting observation by H. Moll,...
Shows coast along the arctic from Norway east to Siberia and south through the Bering Strait; insets show two different versions of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: [Northern Siberia with the Kamchatka Peninsula] --...
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....
(3:26 min.) (02 of 27) Family history: Father
Father from Norway at 10 years old. 1896 came to Alaska for the Hope/Sunrise gold rush. Father carried mail from Seward to Matanuska Valley. Father wouldn't eat Hooligan. Ran a transport boat...
Title taken from caption. "9291 -- The good ship "Queen," after passing the "Seminole," sped on to Skagway, discharged her freight and passengers and then returned to Portage Cove just as the reindeer ship was dropping anchor, on March 27th....
Title taken from caption. "9272 -- (31) On March 28, 1898, the government reindeer relief expedition landed at Haines Mission. The herd then numbered 525.
From the date of the landing of the deer at Haines Mission the story of the...
Title taken from caption. A tunnel view. The name Nordland Torghatten found on the bottom of card. Black & white post card. [This is the tunnel through Mountain Torghatten, Nordland, Norway.]
Title from caption. On May 11, 1926, the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, accompanied by the American Lincoln Ellsworth, the Italian Umberto Nobile (who had constructed the vessel and flew it), the pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of an amphibious jeep with a 75mm recoiless rifle mounted on the back on parade at the 1947 Fairbanks Winter Carnival Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
Title taken from caption. View of a grave near a Bristol Bay cannery. Cross reads: "In memory of Peter Lee. Born Sep. 30 1888, drowned July 24, 1926. Native of Norway. Rest in peace."
Title taken from verso. Holiday card by Arthur Hansin Eide reads: "With the best of holiday wishes." From verso of original card: "S.S. Maude arriving in Nome from Norway - east. Roald Amundsen was trying to sail north to the pole - 1920 - in...
Title taken from verso. View of Matanuska, Alaska, at mile 150 of Alaska Railroad, with railroad car in background and pedestrians on street. Signs on buildings shown read: "O.O. Krogh" and "Hotel Allen. Restaurant." "O.O. Krogh" refers to Oliver...
Sir G. Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson landing in Barrow, Alaska, on their first circumpolar flight, April 15, 1928. This flight went from Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, Norway, a distance of 2500 miles. From verso: "At Barrow. On their first...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod. Musher wears the flag of Norway on the back of his jacket. Team passing unused sled. Wooden buildings in background. Slide copyright J. Schultz. Original format: 35mm color slide
Physical description: 1v. (13 leaves), handwritten on yellow legal-sized sheets.
Summary: Joseph relates the story of the Aukquon, Auk tribe of Tlingit Indians, beginning at the Stikine River in the 15th century. He mentions settlements...