View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Both the Spencer and Ariadne were waiting offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) for the seas to subside so that they...
Title taken from caption. View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island). From May's journal, dated June 5th: "We are still here...
Title taken from caption. View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer), off shore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island). From May's journal, dated June 5th: "After we returned to the ship the Ariadne moved up...
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
Alan May poses in front of Mendenhall Glacier. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "The glacier is indeed a very wonderful sight - stupendous and magnificent. ...The blue and green coloring of the icy depths has to be seen to be believed."--p. 12....
Title taken from caption. Sidney Connor walking along the Juneau-Douglas bridge. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "Wednesday afternoon Connor and I walked part of the way to Douglas, over the new $150,000 bridge. We got pretty wet for it has...
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...
Title taken from caption. View of Kenneth "Sandy" Chisholm and Ed Levin, both of whom accompanied Father Bernard Hubbard on trips to Alaska. Image taken aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. From May's...
Title taken from caption. Ales Hrdlicka and Bernard Hubbard talking aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. From May's journal, dated May 23rd: "Yesterday I saw the Doctor talking very confidentially to Father Hubbard, so I took a picture of...
Mageik, one of Father Bernard Hubbard's dogs, on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 23rd: "There are two of Father Hubbard's dogs on board, Magiek and Wolf, they weigh 100 and...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Reading left to right, his nephew, Sandy Chisholm, Father Hubbard and Ed Levin." Bernard Stanley, Kenneth "Sandy" Chisholm, Father Hubbard and Ed Levin pose for a photograph aboard the U.S. Coast Guard...
Title taken from caption. The "Atlanta" is most likely the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Atalanta". From May's journal, dated May 21st: "The Atlanta [sic], a Coast Guard ship stationed at Seattle, escorted us out for a mile or two with the relatives and...
Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa prepare to launch a surf boat to investigate a distressed vessel. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "By radio we hear that two boats have been reported missing, and we are now searching for them....
Title taken from caption. Members of the expedition await the arrival of the launch from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. From May's journal, dated June 4th: "We were all digging away yesterday morning when we heard the Tally whistling....
Title taken from caption. A crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa climbs across a ladder toward a timber trestle and the dock in the deserted mining town of Latouche, site of the former Beatson mine of the Kennecott Copper...
View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa preparing for a fishing trip to Lake Kenai. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "On Sunday twenty five of the seamen and three officers hired a truck to take them to Lake Kenai for a...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa take a lunch break on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "At Mile 18 [on Lake Kenai] we went in three different parties in a motor boat...
Title taken from caption. Captain Noble G. Ricketts of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa demonstrates gold panning techniques to a party including Aleš Hrdlička. From May's journal, dated June 10th: "This morning the Captain gave the Doctor...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa walk down a road near Ptarmigan Creek, a tributary of Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "There is a highway here [Ptarmigan Creek] which I am told goes...
Title taken from caption."Alaska Nellie" Lawing posing in front of her cabin. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "Near the dock where we landed there is a home owned by one Nellie. I found out that Nellie is a well-known Alaskan character. Stolfe...