A miner in a makeshift tent stands with pick and hatchet in hand at Seward, Alaska. A drill and steel are on his left and sticks of blasting powder are on the ground in front of him. 1910? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5...
Charles Emswiler (also spelled Emsweiler), licensed guide, stands in front of a log cabin with rifle and snowshoes in hand near Seward, Alaska. From front: "Chas Emswiler, guide." ca. 1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph:...
Title taken from front. The steamer Bertha is wrecked and on fire in Uyak Bay, Kodiak, Alaska. Unidentified photographers mark in the left hand corner. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Map of Asian Russia, including Bering Strait and part of the western coast of Alaska. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Embossed with the seal de l'Auteur. No. 43 of Brue's Atlas universel de geographie physique.
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Includes key to abbreviations and Russian geographical terms in upper margin. Engraved by J. & C. Walker.
Published in London by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in...
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Includes key to abbreviations and Russian geographical terms in upper margin. Engraved by J. & C. Walker.
Published in London by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1838....
Ms. (blueline copy), hand colored with red pencil. Shows tracks of the voyages of Bering and Chirikov in 1741. Includes the Aleutians, and the south coast of Alaska down to the Queen Charlotte Islands. Attributed to Cecil Robe.
"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...
Shows tracks of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Jakob von Storcksburg Stahlin. Hand colored. References: Wagner 633 note; Falk 1784-11.
Published in St. Petersburg by Academie Imperale des Sciences in...
Shows tracks of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Jakob von Storcksburg Stahlin. Hand colored. References: Wagner 633 note; Falk 1784-11.
Published in St. Petersburg by Academie Imperale des Sciences in 1784. Scale...
Manuscript map. Shows Krenitzin's and Levashev's voyage from Kamchatka to the Fox Islands in 1768 and 1769, and was purportedly secured from Catherine II by or for the Scottish historian William Robertson by his friend Dr. Rogerson, the Empress's...
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...
Relief shown pictorially. Inset: the north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland. Includes 5 large illustrations and a brief text description of the lifestyle of the Laplanders. "According to the newest and most exacting observation by H. Moll,...
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Printed under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and included in the Society's A Series of Maps Modern and Ancient, No. 5. Engraved by J. & C....
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored - outline color. Insets: Russian America -- Capt. Franklin's journey from Coppermine River to the head of Bathurst Inlet & return by Hood's River.
Published in Liverpool by George Philip & Son in...