The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
View of the barge "Blazer" run aground at Kanatak, Alaska, near Kodiak, with men preparing to pull the boat free. From verso: "Kanatak Barge Blazer on beach after storm parcial [sic] buried in ice & sand being ready for cat to pull her out on beach...
Four men stand and sit near a large round banner, possibly the ship's insignia for the S.S. Cleveland. According to the book "Alaska and the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service: 1867-1915" by Truman R. Strobridge and Dennis L....
The steamship S. S. Jeanie floats in the ice floes of the ocean. The S.S. Jeanie was an Alaskan freighter in the early 1900s and ran aground near the coast of British Columbia on December 19, 1913. The photo also has...
Title taken from image. Winter & Pond postcard showing the vessel the "Northwestern" stranded in the Wrangell Narrows, June 1st 1919. A smaller vessel is pulled up alongside; several men are on the deck of this vessel, looking at the Northwestern...
Title taken from verso. Full portside view of the ship, Boxer, aground on a sand spit near Ugashik Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "The sand spit we were on was the only visible land for 10 miles around." 1935. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of the S. S. Northwestern which was used as a floating dormitory for military personnel until destroyed in 1942. From verso: "This is the Northwestern from the shore side. She is really aground. Iver had a room on the first deck just about...
Title from image caption View from rocky shore, starboard side of PRINCESS KATHLEEN, hard aground on rocks; lifeboats dangle from davits Photographer's number 2
Title from image caption and name on stern of ship Sailing ship, PROSPER of San Francisco, healed over on beach; one man on deck and several on shore, which is strewn with ice Photographer number 236; signed SV[H] Photo
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...