Title from verso. Dirt road (which is now part of the Seward Highway) leads to Moose Pass, 30 miles north of Seward, Alaska. 1940-1948. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 4" x 6".
Title taken from front. A group of men stand by a dog sled loaded with two children before getting on the trail at Seward, Alaska. 1910? Photographer: Elsie Blue. Original size of photograph: 6 1/4" x 4".
Title taken from verso. This photo was taken before the U.S. entered World War II (1941) in Seward, Alaska, although the quote on the back of photo says " The Veteral Liner Yukon, as she appeared in Resurrection Bay just before going to her doom on...
Ice covered debris fills the corner of Washington and Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska, where the Arcade Building stood before the fire of November 23-24, 1941. The Brosius Apartment building and the Alaska Railroad depot stand in the background....
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Relief shown pictorially. Inset: the north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland. Includes 5 large illustrations and a brief text description of the lifestyle of the Laplanders. "According to the newest and most exacting observation by H. Moll,...
Shows route of Barentsz's [Barendsz's / Barents's] voyage. Illustrated with ships, compass roses and fanciful sea life. Attributed to J.T. and J.I. Bry.
Published in [Frankfurt] in [1601]. Scale is not given.
From de Bry's Zwolffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist, Grundliche volkommene Entdeckung aller der west indianischen Landschafften, insuln vnd Konigreichen..., with a small depiction of the Americas surrounded by annotated illustrations of explorers...
Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Alternate title on verso within ornamental border. Based on discoveries by Verrazano. First map to show the two American continents as being attached, also names the Pacific Ocean and depicts Japan. Predominant...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island and a coastline, Terrae Esonis, between the northern tip of California and what is possibly the Kamchatka Peninsula. Illustrated with various peoples of the New World. Hand colored....
Verso: Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) meets with two members of the "Spenard Lions," one of the two Anchorage hockey teams in Washington, D.C. this week for the Capitol Invitational Hockey Tournament, just before winning their first game. The...