Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and others at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Experimental Station near Matanuska Junction, Matanuska Valley,...
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...
Relief shown by shading and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Cover title: Map of the Kotzebue Sound country, Alaska, the new gold fields, including the basins of the Kobuk or Putnam, Selawik and other rivers explored by the U.S. Naval...
Title from verso. Photograph of bomb exploding on Japanese military installation in the Aleutian Islands. Verso reads: "An upsurging column of smoke causes a long shadow over Jap [ Japanese ] installations as a U.S. bombadier hits his...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Seabees work in near 100 mile per hour winds and sub-freezing temperatures to put portable boilers into operation to supply heat to Navy housing aboard the U. S. Naval Station, Kodiak,...
Title taken from front. The U.S. Cruiser Maryland arrived in Seward, Alaska with a crew of 810 on July 30, 1912. Naval staff from the Maryland investigated the Alaskan coal reserves while in port. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
Title taken from front. Members of the U.S. Cruiser Maryland perform a battalion drill for an audience in Seward, Alaska. Also from front: "S. Sexton." 1913. Photographer: S. Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
U.S.C. Buffalo docked in Seward, Alaska to test coal from fields. The Admiral Sampson is docked behind the Buffalo. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from front. Part of the title is obscured. People line the street near the Northern Hotel waiting for a parade of marines and sailors from the U.S.S. Maryland (not pictured) in Seward, Alaska. The Alemeda is also tied up at dock. Sign...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the upper left. Shows U.S.G.S. and other routes of exploration overprinted on base map in red. Map 1 from Report, Public Resolution No. 25, 55th...
Title taken from caption. View of the U.S. Coast Surveyor while at Kodiak Island, Alaska. There are two smaller boats in the foreground. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1919.
Title from verso. An unidentified service man sits on a wall in front of the entrance to the U.S.O. (United Service Organizations) building in Fairbanks. A sign on the building reads "USO" the sign on the building next door reads "Johnsons...
This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 15, 1961 and depicts the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service building in Fort Yukon, Alaska. The building is a log cabin with a metal roof, and there are antlers hung from the roofbeams over the...
This color slide depicts four unidentified men standing in front of a Grumman Goose amphibious airplane used by the U. S. Department of Fish and Wildlife at an unidentified airport in Alaska in 1962. There is a mountain in the background behind...
Title taken from front. View of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture experimental station, Kodiak, Alaska. Inscription from verso: "July 7th. Dear Mother & Father - have been working hard at the store and have been too tired evenings to write - The next boat...
At head of title: The National Geographic Magazine. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows railroad, steamship, and telegraph and cable lines. Inset: Western extension of Aleutian Islands. In color.
Includes profiles of Wrangell Island, St. Paul's Island and Ugomok Island. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Drawn by Louis Waldecker." Corrected to 1891. "Additions and corrections, in 1889, by the...
One of the U.S. Navy's first class of fast, light cruisers, the CL-10 U.S.S. CONCORD was commissioned November 1923; during World War II, she joined the Northern Pacific Force and was decommissioned December 1945