5 maps on one sheet. Engraved for Millar's New complete & universal system of geography. Components: Chart of the new Northern Archipelago; discover'd by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir -- Chart of the Canary Isles &c. -- Chart...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows major routes of exploration. From Thomas Jefferys and others, The American atlas. Series: A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows major routes of exploration. From Thomas Jefferys and others, The American atlas. Series: A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and...
Image appears to be possibly a ship with crew aboard. The water area in the photo is labeled: "St Lawrence Bay, Siberia." The ship is labeled: "U.S.R.C. 'Bear'." This is probably the United States Revenue Cutter "Bear."
Image shows time-lapsed photograph of the progress of the sun on the shortest day of the year, December 21st, in Nome, Alaska. Sunrise noted as 10:25am, and sunset at 1:35pm, though no year noted.
A steamship floats in a sea of ice. There are three men standing on ice in the foreground with tools, possibly trying to reach the stranded ship. This is probably the S.S. Portland. Photos UAF-1985-122-151 to...
A ship seems to be stuck in the ice floes of the ocean. This is probably the S.S. Portland. Photos UAF-1985-122-151 to UAF-1985-122-156 and UAF-1985-122-164 to UAF-1985-122-165 seem to be of the same ship at the same time.
A steamship floats in the ice floes of the ocean. There is a caption at the bottom of the photo that appears to have been cut off. The remaining text reads: "Land." This is probably the S.S. Portland. Photos...
A few men watch as others on and nearby try to assist a steamship stranded in ice. There is a person to the far left who seems to be doing something in the ice. Others are climbing the cabling on the ship. The word...
The steamship S. S. Jeanie floats in the ice floes of the ocean. The S.S. Jeanie was an Alaskan freighter in the early 1900s and ran aground near the coast of British Columbia on December 19, 1913. The photo also has...
The steamship S. S. Portland floats among the ice floes in the ocean. There are some men standing in the snow and climbing the ramp to board the ship. The ship may be stranded and the men may be attempting to rescue it. ...
Men stand on the snow watching as other men climb ladders and board the S.S. Portland, possibly assisting in rescuing the stranded ship. Photos UAF-1985-122-151 to UAF-1985-122-156 and UAF-1985-122-164 to UAF-1985-122-165...
Caption reads: "Str. [Steamer] Nome City, June 1902." A group of people stand on the ice with a small boat near the steamship S.S. Nome City, possibly to board or work on it.
Caption reads: "Eskimo and his kiak [kayak]." Two Eskimo men sit in their kayaks on the sea. Written on the bottom left corner of the photo is possibly a photographer's initials or photo number: "[FSL?][F82?]."
Three men and two women pose for a photograph along the side railing of a ship. The ocean is in the background. UAF-1968-21-237 is an identical photograph. The young woman is also in photograph UAF-1968-21-261.