Title from caption. Photograph shows a thermometer in a small wooden box and a rain gauge in front of a building in Nenana, Alaska, on June 29th, 1917. Caption also reads: "No.47. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
Students in biology laboratory seated at table examining clams, taking notes and recording data. Microscopes, textbooks in use and a bare light bulb hangs above them.
Title taken from caption. "North Lat. 59° - 35 in. West Long. 148° - 15 in." Accompanying note reads: "Men taking readings with a [sextant] aboard ship". Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-750". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
Title taken from caption: "Sayre taking soil sample on Katmai ash flat." View of National Geographic expedition member Jasper Dean Sayre using small torch and knife to take soil samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from caption: "Fumarole XXXIII which registered 440 degrees C., showing thermocouple in the narrow crack. The ground here was too hot for the instruments which were rested on the spade and pack as seen in the picture." View National...
Title taken from caption. View of Jasper Dean Sayre taking the temperature of Fumarole XI, with steam is rising up in front of Sayre and his backpack is propped up behind him holding his equipment. Photo taken at what was later designated as...
Title taken from caption: "A small opening of Fumarole XIV which registers 310 degrees C at the surface." View of National Geographic expedition equipment taking the temperature of Fumarole XIV. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai...
Title taken from caption. National Geographic Society expedition member collecting gas sample at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer: J.W. Shipley.
Title from verso Lachapelle stands in the doorway of a Jamesway hut, which serves as headquarters for the glaciologists who are exploring Lemon Creek Glacier, near Juneau. The boxes on the foreground are supplies paradropped by the 558th...
Full title: A journey into Siberia, made by order of the king of France. Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, the present state of their empire; with the natural history, and geographical description of their country,...
vi, [2], 293 p. front, XVIII pl., 2 fold. maps. 28 cm.
"This work is plagiarized from the prof. Sir C. L. M. von Giesecke's Lectures and from Generla Vallancey."--Allibone, Crit. dictionary of English literature, v. 2.
With an appendix containing an historical account of the Dutch, English, and American whale fisheries; some important observations on the variation of the compass, &c.; and some extracts from Mr. Scoresby's paper on "Polar...
Title taken from verso. A sampling device is suspended over the water. A person attends the device. Verso: Coastal and Marine Biology program - CTD fish and sample bottle.