Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundary between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in Bering Strait.
Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...
Relief shown by hill shading and spot heights. Oriented with north to the upper left. Shows boundary (existing and disputed) between Canada and Alaska, and gold discoveries. Includes inset: Route map. Geological information taken from the...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Shows boundary line of 1825 between Russian and British possessions in North America. Signed by George Davidson. In Tikhmenev, Istoricheskoe obozrienie obrazovaniia Rossiisko-amerikanskoi...
View of the Kodiak waterfront in the late 19th century. Three of the buildings have been identified as: a warehouse, behind the large sailing vessel with its sails furled; the Custom House, above the warehouse between the far right masts; and the...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows west coast of North America, from California up to Prince William Sound. Insets: Klondike Region on enlarged scale -- Alaska [index map with an inset of the Aleutian Islands] -- Map showing the...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Cover title: Lowman & Hanford S. and P. Co's Map of Alaska and Northwest Territories, compiled from latest surveys. Insets: Sketch of Klondike mining district -- [Map of region between Skagway and Ft....
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows west coast of North America, from California to Prince William Sound. Insets: Klondike region -- Map showing the country between Juneau & Ft. Selkirk. Ancillary map: Alaska [index map with an...
Note on slide reads "quinok." A man in uniform, a hat with a white object that could be a badge, stands on a board sidewalk looking back at the camera. Nearby another man, wearing a striped shirt, dark jacket and...
Group of men, women and children pose while seated at a picnic table. The table is covered with tablecloths, pots, plates, cups, and food items. A group of five men and women pose behind the table, between the...
Handwritten note reads "Reindeer goliveri (?)." Herd of reindeer running between corrals. People appear at the opening of the corral. Photos UAF-1997-108-314 through UAF-1997-108-326 seem to be a series of photos...
Handwritten note reads "Kuskokwim thru clouds." A river appears between a break in the clouds. A part of an airplane wing is in the left side of image.
Title from verso. A view of downtown Fairbanks and the flooded Chena River with two smokestacks, a flag reading "N.C.Co" hanging between them, in the foreground.
Many of the photos from UAF-2007-64-78 through UAF-2007-64-98 appear to...
Visible are Riverside Hotel, Model Cafe, sign "Drug Store" on corner building, sign with downward-pointing "rocket" reading "Rick's" or "Brick's", flag of N.C. Company hanging between two smokestacks. A...
According to a Jan. 2, 2010, e-mail from Harold Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist of Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, "This was probably a 'shoreboat' in Sitka. ...
A person in a coat and hat walks on what appear to be boards laid across the surface girders of a bridge. Another person can be seen in the distance, between the posts. The base of a pile driver is at...