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...
Clipping on verso includes following: Sen. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening are pictured here boarding the Grace Line's Santa Rosa, which sailed from New York on a 13-day cruise
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska...
Mathematic map data: Scale ca. 1:12,672,000 Publication info: [Washington? D.C.] : U.S.C.S. Dept., 1880. Physical descrip: 1 map : col. ; on sheet 31 x 39 cm. General Note: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "157." Longitude in degrees from Washington and Greenwich. On verso (158): west half of map titled Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Dominion of Canada. In color.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "17." On verso: west half of a map of Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Dominion of Canada. In color.
Published in [1880?]. Scale is [ca. 1:7,603,200] (E175 00...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Ancillary map: Diagram of the Middle States; [North America]. "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1867 by G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Inset: Diagram of the middle states. Ancillary map: [North and Central America]. Includes isothermal lines. "Isothermal lines by Lorin Blodgett." Nos. 17 & 18 from Colton's...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Insets: [North America showing Alaska's location in relation to the United States] -- Diagram of the Middle States. Text on verso: "Province of Canada, no. 1. Alaska, late...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Compiled for the Department of State at the U. S. Coast Survey Office, B. Peirce, Supt. 1867." Chas. G. Krebs, lithographer. Russian settlements underlined with red ink, Esquimaux settlements...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Reduced from the map published by the U.S.C.S. Dept." "101." "Published for H. S. Stebbins by H. H. Lloyd & Co., New York."
Published in New York by H.H. Lloyd & Co. in [1872?]. Scale is...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Reduced from the map published by the U.S.C.S. Dept." No. 53 from Mitchell's New general atlas. Decorative border.
Published by S.A. Mitchell in 18725. Scale is [ca. 1:12,672,000] (E160 00...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From Mitchell's New general atlas. "Reduced from the map published by the U.S.C.S. Dept." "66." Decorative border. Falk 1878-4.
Published in [Philadelphia] by [S. Augustus Mitchell] in...