Map of Asian Russia, including Bering Strait and part of the western coast of Alaska. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Embossed with the seal de l'Auteur. No. 43 of Brue's Atlas universel de geographie physique.
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Shows Avacha Bay (Kamchatskaya Oblast'), Russia Inset: Petropaulski Harbour. Includes numerous profile drawings of portions of coastline. Stamped "Western Union Telegraph Co." . ...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Shows routes and dates of various voyages. Includes profile of Wrangel Island in Russia. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "Gez. V. Fr. Hanemann." "Druck v. C. Hellfartl." From Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen. ...
Engraved map of Russia, with information based on Russian maps. Double sheet map (glued together). Half circle title top center. Cutaways in bottom corners, one showing scales, one labeled "Observation," acknowledging what maps the information...
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....
Title from indexer. Photograph shows writing on the side of the airplane the "Winnie Mae". The writing is a list of locations. It reads: "New York U.S.A., Harbor Grace N.F., Chester England, Hanover Germany, Berlin Germany, Moscow Russia, Novo...
(3:01 min.) (03 of 12) Ada studying Statehood Packets Hawaii -- Statehood for Constitutional Convention; State Constitutions -- compared all articles; Treaty -- Russia and the US; purchase of Alaska -- 1867; Article 3 -- Alaskans could choose...
57 second, black & white/silent film clip. This clip shows facilities being constructed and some of the air craft destined to be sent to the Soviet Union for defense against Germany during World War II . Clip is an excerpt from the Universal...
Title taken from caption. "9065 -- (1) In the summer of 1897 our Uncle Samuel began to discern what a bonanza he had bought from Russia 30 years before. From Sitka to Siberia the vast country seems to glitter with gold. There is said to be...
Title by cataloguer. [Aerial summer view of point of land surrounded by ocean. Some structures visible on beach. May be Uelen, Russia. Compare with UAF-1964-74-108.]
Drawing of Urey Lisiansky (Lisianskii) for the frontispiece of the book "A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva"
Title from verso. "Maj. Gen Nicholas I. Petrev, of the Russian Army, bound from Moscow to Washington, steps from a C-47 Skytrain bearing the Red Star of Russia at Edmonton, Canada, base of the Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command. Photo by...
Title from verso. "In the winter of 1942-43, Sir Hubert Wilkins, celebrated Arctic explorer, visited Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, to help solve some of the problems that arose in pushing lend-lease planes through to Russia during one of the...
Title from verso of a similar photo. "The Red Star of Russia is a familiar sight at East Base and has been for months and months. With the lifting of military secrecy, this southern station of the Alaskan Division, ATC, has been disclosed as...