Two separate maps on one sheet. Nautical chart shows Eclipse Harbor, Labrador, with soundings, surveyed by Lieut. Comdg. A. Murray; sketch map includes map of a segment of the coast of Labrador and seven views of locations along the coast of...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and...
Includes sailing directions and notes describing the islands of the Aleutian chain. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. At head of title: Pacific Surveying Expedition, Lieutenant John Rodgers commanding. ...
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
Title taken from photograph. Photo taken from deck of ship. Image shows the Taku Glacier 1910-1912. Written on the page of the photo album is the following text. Nearly all pictures were taken, developed and printed by myself. The...
Title taken from image. Color postcard of the Taku Glacier. Postcard shows glacier and the ice that has calved off. Nearly all pictures were taken, developed and printed by myself. The following pages contain vews of our trips to and from...
Title taken from image. Color postcard of the Tanana mail team. Nearly all pictures were taken, developed and printed by myself. The following pages contain vews of our trips to and from Alaska and our four years residence there. The...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of one corner of the Rivenburg house. Visible in the photo are: photographs, pennants, flowers, a guitar and a pillow. "These two views show two corners of our living room. The flowers are nasturtiums. Both...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of one corner of the Rivenburg house. Visible are photographs, pennants, a sewing machine and what is probably a diploma. "These two views show two corners of our living room. The flowers are nasturtiums. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of Jim Carse rowing his boat. Narrative in photograph reads: "Two views of Jim Carse in his Yukon boat. He was a wood chopper and owned a set of Shakespear's works"
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two men whipsawing lumber. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two views showing the Indians whip-sawing limber. By this laborious method they produce planks for flooring, boards for building the large...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two men whipsawing a log into lumber. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two views showing the Indians whip-sawing limber. By this laborious method they produce planks for flooring, boards for building...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a recently constructed birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "After the sewing, all seams are covered with a mixture of pitch, gathered from the trees, cooked with grease. This hardens but is...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Elsie and a boy seated in a box. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above are two views of Elsie in two different moods, showing a box of our sweetpeas."
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Elsie, who is happy. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Above are two views of Elsie in two different moods, showing a box of our sweetpeas."
Title from caption. Photograph of Jim Carse in his Yukon Boat on the Yukon River. Narrative in photograph album reads: "Two views of Jim Carse in his Yukon boat. He was a wood chopper and owned a set of Shakespeare's works"
Title taken from caption. Photograph of a part of a sun dog as seen from Stevens Village, Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "This is one of my views of the sun dog on the left of the sun."
Title from caption. Photograph of a cabin that Lawyer Rivenburg proposed as the replacement for the Stevcen's Village school that burned. This one is Theodore's cabin. Narrative in photo album reads: "These three views of cabins were taken...