Title taken from caption. "Taking the temperature of a hot one. Our thermometer read only to 360 centigrade. Not that the steam does not condense for some distance from the vent." View of two of the expedition members trying to get temperature...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Dr. Hrdlicka on the right." View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland prior to departure from the Seattle docks. From May's journal, dated May 21st: "The Departure of the Northland is usually quite...
Title taken from caption. Nikolski. May used Umnak and Nikolski interchangeably but the diary does not indicate that the expedition visited Umnak village and the church in the far left of the photograph is the church in Nikolski. Photograph taken...
Title taken from photo caption. Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Opposite Merrill Field, the Municipal Airport is a string of trailers and shacks -- contrary to implications the residents of this area do not work at the Municipal...
Title taken from stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
View of a bridge under construction somewhere in Southcentral Alaska (possibly the Seward Highway, south of Anchorage, Alaska) after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Road to the left of the bridge being constructed is submerged. A crane sits on the...
View of damage to a port somewhere in Southcentral Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes a boat (with the name Gulf King on the bow) and what appears to be a piece of another boat in the middle right. Cranes and a bulldozer...
View of destruction to buildings along Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Large building near center is the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Signs on the far left, above the man's head,are mostly obscured. One does...
View of muskox near U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex at Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, with beach in background. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitle] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard...
Winter view looking up at the school house at Stevens Village, Alaska. A flagpole is in front of the school and the trail in the snow in the foreground is the mail trail. From verso: "This is a good view of the school house at Stevens Village. The...