Title taken from caption.
Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
(5:10 min.) (06 of 08) Repairing the engines and hauling supplies during Vietnam spare parts for repairing engine; engines -- Alaska Steam ships; workshop onboard; replaced cylinder -- in port; Knot Ships -- Vietnam; ran supplies -- Army...
(4:10 min.) (08 of 08) Living on a ship and coming back to port steam vessels -- engineer on tug boat; steam -- not as economical; life on a freighter; diesel -- machine shops; Alaska Steam -- shorter trips; more days off; repair and clean-up --...
Note on verso in Russian written by Tikhon Vinokouroff Oct. 12, 1920: On
Kumakh- Surt
120 v[ersts] from Buluna (Siberia)
All [illeg.] "without ceremony"
-- without changing clothes
Sept. 15, 1926
Title from caption. Photograph of an unidentified cannery town. Narrative in photo album reads: "Two salmon cannery towns practically deserted except during the canning season."
An e-mail from Chuck Mobley, dated September, 2009,...
Title from verso. Men and equipment landing on Amchitka Island. Verso reads: "Americans occupy island 63 miles from Kiska Amchitka Island, Aleutians--In the cold waters of Constantine Harbor, Yank landing boats head toward Amchitka...
Title from verso. Photograph of bombs falling on Kiska Island and Japanese military positions. Verso reads: "Aleutian Islands -- A long line of heavy bombs drop toward their target -- Jap [ Japanese ] installations on Kiska Island -- in...
Title from verso. Photograph of sealskin harvest barreled for transport on the USS Thuban, seen in the background. Verso reads: "Seven of 16. Precious Cargo -- In neatly spaced barrels, part of a four million dollar sealskin harvest...
Title taken from caption. "9214 -- In the palmy days of Sheep Camp some of its more imposing establishments were made up of a combination of general merchandising department, drug store, restaurant and lodging house. The unprotected manner in...
Ms., mounted on cardboard. Shows plan of Etolin Harbor [Wrangell Harbor], from the map of Capt. Vancouver. Relief shown by shading; depths shown by soundings. "Po Karte Kapitana Vankuvera." "No. XXIV." Signed by George Davidson, numbered 170. ...
Relied shown by hachures. From Colton's American atlas, vol. 2 in Colton's Atlas of the world, illustrating physical and political geography. Longitude from Washington and Greenwich. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J....
Ms. In ink; hand colored. Selected relief shown by hachures. Shows Western Union Telegraph line from New Westminster to Quesnelmouth with some detail. Original map glued to paper backing with neat lines and margins redrawn where missing....
Relief shown by hachures. Possibly from Colton's American Atlas, 1857 edition. "No. 6." Text on verso describing New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward and Newfoundland. In color. 29 x 39 cm.
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Enlarged chart of Wellington Channel &c. -- Beechey Island, site of J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-46. "Printed in Colours by Schenck & Macfarlane, Edinburgh." Cylindrical projection. Plate 46....
Insets: Enlarged chart of Wellington Channel &c. -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. "Printed in Colours by W.H.M.Farlane, Edinburgh." Plate 40.
Published in Edinburgh by A. & C. Black in 1862?....