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. " S. S. Edith arriving at Valdez, Aug. 10, 1905 with railway materials. " Cataloguer's note: The S. S. Edith was one of Alaska Steamship Company's iron freighters. On one of her voyage from Nome to Tacoma in late...
Title taken from front. View of S.S. Mariposa at dock in Valdez, Alaska, with people standing by on land and also on board ship. S.S. Admiral Sampson is visible in left background. Also from front: "P.S. Hunt J1139. S.S. Admiral Sampson standing...
Title taken from front. View of newcomers to Alaska (cheechakos) being brought to land by barge from S.S. Ohio, Nome, Alaska, with S.S. Victoria in background. Photographer's number 1045. n.d. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...
Captain Emmons, United States Navy, was the commanding officier of the U.S.S Ossipee and was present at the transfer ceremony of Alaska from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867.
[For complete ship's log from the voyage of the...
An Army tugboat seen close to the wreck of the S.S. Yukon after the storm near Seward, Alaska. The U.S.S. Curb and a Coast Guard boat are further out. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
The U.S.S. Curb, Coast Guard cutter Onandaga, and other rescue boats at the scene of the shipwreck of the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. 1946. Original size of photograph: 2 1/2" x 3 3/4".
Title taken from caption "U.S.S. Louisville scout plane." View of a severviceman standing on top of the wings of a scout plane from the U.S.S. Louisville. The side of the plane is bearing the markings "5-CS-13 Louisville" and "U.S. Navy". There is...
Photograph with the caption Launching U.S.S. CB-1, Miss Anne Lillian Diamond-Maid of Honor, Mrs. Ernest Gruening- Sponsor, Rear Admiral R. W. Ryden, U.S.N., New York Shipbuilding Copr., Camden, N.J., August 15th, 1943.
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf showing five steamships. An advertisement for Moore's Wharf Co. is attached. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf Skaguay Alaska 4 years after completion. July 4th 1904 date of this photo. No. 1....