Shows Attu Island east to Unimak Island. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Shorelines from Gibson and Kuprianoff with corrections of positions and many details from observations by the party in charge of W.H....
Shows Northwestern America and the northeastern tip of Asia, including an enormous and prominent false "Mer l'Ouest" as well as a clear North West Passage; based on the rare De L'Isle map which supposedly chronicled the discoveries of one "Admiral...
Title from verso. A group of soldiers from Battery "E" pose for a photograph in front of an army tent at Fort Raymond, Seward. Battery "E" was in the 205th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Battalion (renamed the 420th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)...
Title and description (except in brackets) from photo verso. [Fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch capsized under a wave that hit the ship.] USCG Storis (WMEC 38) and the 96 - foot crabber Alaskan Monarch. Alaskan Monarch went aground Mar. 15, 1990 on...
Description from photo verso. A Coast Guard rescue helicopter (turbin-powered Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King) from Kodiak prepares to hoist the crew from the ice-beset fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch off St. Paul Island, in the Bering Sea March 15, 1990. ...
Shows tracks of various voyages, including Bering and Chirikov. Relief shown by hachures. "Republished by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty." Considered to be the first English edition of a map published by the Royal Academy of Sciences...
Shows locations of relics of the Franklin Expedition and the routes of the Ross, Osborn, Browne, Rae, Collinson, Anderson, M'Clintock, Hobson, and Young expeditions. Inset: Probable route of the Franklin Expedition. In color.
Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the upper right. Shows steamer routes. Annotations include elevations. Annotated by Thos B. Bishop of the ship Fox. In lower right margin: 8001. Stamped "Sub Office U.S. Coast and Geodetic...
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. 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...
Title taken from verso. On verso a letter from the Public Information Division of the United States Coast Guard, dated 14 November 1948, is printed. The letter says the following about this photo: "Offical U.S. Coast Guard Photo. United...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "North west coast of North America : Sheet 3." "Compiled from British and Russian authorities with additions from a reconnaissance by G. Davidson, Assistant, U.S. Coast Survey." Upper left...
Shows coast along the arctic from Norway east to Siberia and south through the Bering Strait; insets show two different versions of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: [Northern Siberia with the Kamchatka Peninsula] --...
Shows north coast of Russia with Nova Zemla, Norway, Sweden and Spitsbergen (shown as Greenland on map). From John Seller's The English Pilot, 1671. Hand colored. Illustrated with ships, fanciful creatures, compass rose and decorative cartouche....
Title from verso. Photograph of a young woman from Savoonga. The photo has been marked for cropping. Verso reads: "Seattle, Wash. -- The Coast Guard Cutter, Northwind, "battle-scarred" veteran of polar region expeditions, recently...
Title taken from caption. The "Atlanta" is most likely the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Atalanta". From May's journal, dated May 21st: "The Atlanta [sic], a Coast Guard ship stationed at Seattle, escorted us out for a mile or two with the relatives and...