Shows Alaska and western Canada indicating designations of geographic regions: Pacific Mountain System, Central Plateau Region, Rocky Mountain System, Arctic Slope and Great Plains Region. "Professional Paper No. [blank] Pl.I."
Caption reads: "Canadian-Arctic Expedition. Vilhjalmar [Vihjalmur] Stefansson in command. Outfitting at Darling and Dean, Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men and their dogs and dogteams gather in front of the store...
At head of title: The National Geographic Magazine. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows railroad, steamship, and telegraph and cable lines. Inset: Western extension of Aleutian Islands. In color.
Title from verso. Image shows a large log building with a tiled roof in construction near a forest. Windows and doors are not installed. A pile of lumber sits on the ground on the right side of the image while giant spools are visible on the...
Includes legend. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. "Compiled from the official records of the General Land Office, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Geological Survey, Canadian and other sources under the direction of I.P. Berthrong." "Compiled...
Includes key to geographic features. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Ancillary maps: Nowaja Semlja -- Spitzbergen und die Baren Insel -- Kuste von Ost-Gronland -- Nach den den aufnalmen der zweiten Deutschen Nord-Pol-Expedit. 1869-1870...
48 second film clip, black & white/sound. From title frame: "Gruening Collection, 1961-1964". Film shows Ernest Gruening telling Philleo Nash that the problems of Alaskan Natives differ according to geographic location.
"The five officers who flew the 9,000 miles from New York to Nome and back in 110 flying hours. Left to right: Capt. St. Clair Street, Commanding; 1st lieut. Clifford C. Nutt; 2d Lieut. Eric C. Nelson; 2d Lieut. C....
"Possible only in a democratic Army such as ours -- Officers and men in a friendly group--Capt. Douglass; Lieut. C.H. Crumrine; Lieut. Ross C. Kirkpatrick; Lieut. Eric C. Nelson; Sergeant Albert Vierra, Master...
Relief shown pictorially. In color. Includes "Terra Della Compas" and several large islands off the northeast coast of Asia. A number of Russian place names are included. "Tom 8 pag. 306." From volume 8 of Thomas Salmon's "Modern...
Title from caption. Captions-- At top: "The First Alaskan Air Expedition". Below photo: "Pilots of the Alaskan Expedition. From left to right, Captain St. Clair Streett, Flight Commander; Lieutenant C. C. Nutt, Lieutenant R. C. Kirkpatrick,...
Title taken from caption. View of the Frye-Bruhn ranch buildings with the ash covered land around them. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of salmon hung out to dry as a means to preserving the fish for later consumption at Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of the chapel and girls dormitory of the Kodiak Baptist Church Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. The field in front of the trees and buildings is covered in ash. Photo taken during...
Title taken from caption. View of the main building of the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of a man examining the dying poplar trees along Soluka Creek in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of poplar trees in a field of ash, sending out sprouts from dormant buds in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of new pussy willow growth, growing horizontally in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Vertical growth has been sandblasted by ash, blowing in the wind, and destroyed. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. View of the Katmai Village Church and its bell. The area was covered in water by the Katmai Flood and Robert F. Griggs states in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes that the bottom of the bell was the high water...
Title taken from caption. View of the interior of the Katmai Church and the damage done by the Katmai Flood. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.