Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Annotated by George Davidson with notes, place names and permutations of the Alaska-Canada boundary. "Aids to navigation corrected for information received to Feb. 16, 1903." ...
Shows land and sea routes to gold fields. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Cover title: Don't go to Alaska without consulting this map. Issued in cover by Rea & Co., Beef and Pork Packers, Pittsburg, Pa. Prime meridian: Greenwich and...
Title taken from caption. "9192 -- Gold miners and pickers on Dyea trail, Alaska.
"This view is made in the heart of Sheep Camp, where the miners, en route to the gold fields, halt for the purpose of dividing their freight into small...
Title taken from caption. "9209 -- (24) After passing Sheep Camp the Yukoner of 1898 proceeded up the trail on his journey toward the pass. A group of these gold seekers are represented in the foreground of this view, while a procession of...
Title taken from caption. "9208 -- (26) The White men who made packing a business on the Dyea trail in 1898 carried from 75 to 150 pounds at a time, while the Indian packers carried from 100 to 250 pounds each. At short intervals on the left of...
Title taken from caption. " Government packers returning from the trail, March 1905. " Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G189. Reproduced from a glass plate.
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...
Title by indexer. "Offical photograph U.S. Army Air Forces. 1452 AAF base unit, ATC Apo 462, Minneapolis, Minn." A man is hauling a stack of boxes, possibly produce, on a fork lift. The brand and type of the equipment is Clark Fork truck (see...
Title taken from caption: "Ship Star of Alaska at anchor in Chignik Bay." View of the ship "Star of Alaska" docked in Chignik Bay, Alaska. The ship started out as the "Balclutha" on January 15, 1887 under British registry, and in 1899 it...
Title taken from caption. View of five members of the National Geographic expedition crossing Martin Creek, Alaska, with all their gear. Caption also says: "Packers picking their way across bridge of Martin Creek." Photo taken in what was later...
Title taken from caption. View of Alaska Packers Association cannery buildings at South Naknek, Alaska. Letters at right read: "A.P.A." Also from caption: "So[uth] Naknek, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title taken from caption. View of Larsen Bay and the Larsen Bay cannery, a.k.a. the Alaska Packers Association cannery, which had then merged with the California Packing Corporation (or Calpak). Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936...
This stereograph depicts miners climbing the section of trail over Chilkoot Pass that was known as the "golden staircase," where steps had been carved out of snow and ice to aid the climbers over the top of the pass. Behind the line of climbers in...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts miners carrying equipment climbing up the trail over the section of Chilkoot Pass that was known as the "golden staircase," where steps had been carved out of the snow and ice. Behind the climbers is the...
This stereograph depicts three miners and packers climbing the "golden staircase" to the top of Chilkoot Pass during the gold rush, circa 1898. Two men sit on the snow beside the climbers with a dog. One of the climbers gas a sled strapped to his...
Title taken from front. View of Broadway in the Skagway, Alaska business district, with people on street and in horse drawn wagons, and dog lying in middle of street in foreground. Signs on buildings read: "Burkhard House. Headquarters Yukon...
Title taken from front. View of men with loaded pack animals, Skagway, Alaska, with spectators gathered along street. Banner across street reads: "O'Brien & Hinkle Packers & Forwarders." Photographer's number 34. 1898. Original photograph size: 4...