View of Ship Creek area, Anchorage, Alaska, with tents and buildings. Businesses shown include The Crest House, Anchorage Fish Market, The Panhandle, Montana Pool Room, White Road House, and Riverside Hotel. 1915. Original photograph size: 6 3/4" x...
Title from caption in album: "Oct 22 - Crest of Outside mt. from top of Geological Divide East". Photograph shows a mountain and a meadow covered in snow.
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Aug 30 - North mountains from crest of mt. opposite". Photograph shows tundra-covered mountains in the distance.
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Mar. 11 - Mt. crest where rams were killed - showing where I slid down night before - Kodak pointed up, so inclination does not appear". Photograph shows a snowy mountain.
Title from verso. The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military units and the American Alpine Club to conduct cold-weather and...
Double hemisphere showing "Pars Borealis" and "Pars Australis". Relief shown pictorially. Double cordiform projection. Considered the most influential polar world map published in the sixteenth century; prototype for Mercator's double cordiform...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 7 - Looking down Toklat moraines + showing permanent camp-". Photograph shows a river valley as taken from the crest of a tundra covered knoll. Someone appears to have drawn an 'x' on the photograph. ...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Feb 9 - Head of Bear Draw - S. E. from mt. crest bordering north side of Draw". Photograph shows rocky mountain slopes and peaks with snow on them.
Title from caption in album: "May 12 - Wounded big male bear where I first saw it just below the crest". Photograph shows a bear walking across a snow-covered mountainside after it was shot.
Naval chart, which is a slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's Ptolemy published in 1548. In 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and Latin editions in 1562 and 1564 used the same map plates. This copy...
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
Aerial view of Cape Romanzof, Alaska, looking northeast. From slide mount: "Romanzoff [sic] looking northeast from crest at beach landing." 1955? Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland A. Olson.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. Construction crew with drilling machinery during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction down the hill from Old Man Camp, south of Arctic Circle near Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in Interior Alaska. June 1975. Photographer:...