Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "[August E.] Miller holding the swan, which we caught in the front end of the boat." Previous photo caption reads: "A wild swan captured alive by Miller. Being at the height of its molt is was unable to...
Title taken from caption. The sign reads: "Government Excavations, U.S. National Museum, Visitors Welcome, Admission 20 Shovelfulls". The sign is located at the entrance to the site. There is a man with a wheelbarrow in the background. From May's...
Title taken from caption. View of the shipwrecked minesweeper USS Swallow. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of the archaeological dig site at Amchitka. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
Title taken from caption. Men walking down the main road in Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of a driftwood and whalebone fence overlying a portion of a cave's entrance. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Mt. Vsevidof. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of a fireplace excavated at the dig site at Larsen Bay. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
View of flooding in Homer, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Building is identified as the Land's End Hotel. Words on the bow of the boat, far right, read Try Again. Image also includes an anchor, a small boat floating in the water,...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...