48 second color/silent film clip, of a trip on the Riverboat Discovery in Fairbanks, Alaska. Clip shows passengers loading, Jim Binkley talking on a microphone, Mary Binkley talking to passengers about fur, and a trip to an Athabascan fish camp.
"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Capt. Zeisler performing a marriage on board the USCG Spencer 1939. One of three Alaska Native couples are being married during a triple wedding on a coast guard vessel.
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...
Captain H.W. Stinchcomb and Officer Wilson examining the waters off Kanaga Island from the crow's nest aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
From 1932 until 1941, when she was transferred to the Coast Guard, the NORTH STAR, sturdy service vessel of Office of Indian Affairs, sailed from Seattle to points north, making 50 stops on the outbound journey to Barrow and also stopping in St....
Group portrait of twelve women on deck, with ship's officer standing in the middle; a lifeboat hangs behind the women, mountains in background Printed from original glass-plate negative
Hirst-Chichagof mine manager, Sorensen, stands with his wife and another man, holding paper money, on steamboat's deck; ship's captain? looks on from pilothouse window
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...