Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Expedition journal, 50 pages. Dates March 20-June 13, 1885. 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches high. Discusses the Allen Expedition up the Copper River and describes their activities and hardships; it also contains weather and other scientific...
Daryl Miller is interviewed by Dave Krupa on April 27, 2000 in Talkeetna, Alaska. Miller discusses his personal background and how he was introduced to climbing; his first climbing experience on Denali; not summitting on his first attempt and the...
Expedition journal, 95 pages. 5.5 inches wide by 8.25 inches high. Volume spine is broken and many pages are loose. This volume begins with Fickett's leaving Portland, Oregon, to go to Alaska for the start of the expedition to explore the Copper...
Expedition journal, 73 pages. Dates from June 14 to September 30, 1885. 3.75 inches wide by 5.75 inches high. Continues the description of the Allen Expedition to its arrival at Fort St. Michael on Sunday, August 30, 1885, as well as the trip from...
Expedition journal, 13 pages. 5.5 inches wide by 8.25 inches high. Discusses stay at Fort St. Michael, trip on the U.S.S. Corwin to Unalaska, sailing to San Francisco, and the trip from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon. This item is essentially a...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Image is of the wreck of Schooner Joe Matthews on June 21, 1910 near Cape Darby, Alaska. Additional information from Coast Seamen's Journal, vol. 23 no. 41: June 29, 2010, page 5.
Caption reads: "Mukpie - Point Barrow Eskimo Girl. Youngest person aboard, and one of the survivors of the S.S. "Karluk." Canadian-Arctic (Stefansson) Expedition." A young girl stands outside, wearing a fur parka,...
Title from verso. Caption on verso reads: "Capt. Jack Ballerude, A.A.C. Med. C. 1941 Army Test Expedition." Bollerud was captain in the Alaska Air Command Medical Corps at Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1942. He joined the U.S....
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "Lt. Col. Marchman. US Army. Expedition Commander. 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were...
Title from verso. The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various military units and the American Alpine Club to conduct cold-weather and...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Sgt. Peter Gabriel, 89th Inf., 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various...