The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Includes tides table and sailing directions. Chart No. 704. "Surveyed in 1879 under the direction of Commodore W.D. Whiting U.S.N. chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, by the...
Includes sailing directions and notes describing the islands of the Aleutian chain. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. At head of title: Pacific Surveying Expedition, Lieutenant John Rodgers commanding. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of a fish wheel near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish, specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish wheels, two of which...
Title from image. Photograph of a fishwheel on the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish...
Title taken from caption. View of one of the National Geographic expedition members at work using an alidade. An alidade is a topographic surveying and mapping instrument used for determining directions, consisting of a telescope and attached...
Wooden ladle or scoop; broad, shallow bowl; one piece of spruce wood; stained dark red on outside; used; hole pierced in end of handle for hanging; 12 7/8" long.
Label put on by donor: "CL- 3 Salmon River Kobuk Frank Glover 1952" See letter...