1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory.Named in 1869 by G. Davidson, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), because it appeared to be a shallow lagoon fed by silt laden glacial streams. In 1778 Captain James Cook (1785, v. 28, p....
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Tlingit Indian name first reported in 1849 by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkof, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), governor of Russian America (1852, map 7) as Reka Akve or Akve River and since...
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Local name reported by Lieutenant Commander Moser (1901, pl. 43), U.S. Navy (USN). Heads at Harlequin Lake, flows SW to Gulf of Alaska, 25 mi. SE of Yakutat Bay, Malaspina Coastal Plain....
Title from image caption Men in suits and military uniforms pose along front porch steps of wooden building; names of those identified on verso are as follows: McKinnion, Russel Wayland, Frank Tasher, Gabe Paul, Sam Paul, Chas. Swihart, Bill...
Title taken from collection notes. Verso: Backdrop is dragon-fly made up for special dance. Decitan group Sitka Potlatch 1904. 1st. row left: Andrew Dick. Photographer's number 182.
Title from image. Seven men stand on steps with matching hats and ties. Town names are printed on shirts. Above door: The American Legion Alford John Bradford Post No 4.
Title taken from verso. Group portrait with several women and children. Two log buildings in background; one of them under construction. Orth, Dictionary of Alaska place names: "This is a common Eskimo name, meaning 'people of the stream's...
Ms., mounted on paper. Depths shown by soundings. Tracing of coastline in pencil with soundings added in ink. Includes soundings but no place names. 7 x 42 cm.
Group photo of "Bonanza Days" cast in costume on stage USO building in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Names on back." From verso: "Lorene Harrison, Bee [Beulah Marrs, later Parisi], Priscilla Williams?, Lou Owens, Al Brewer, Rosemary?, Priscilla...
Title taken from text. Album caption: Road Commission bridge across Jarvis creek, 10 miles South of McCarty. All timber used in construction cut from surrounding forest. (McCarty was one of the names of Big Delta.)
Shows northern United States, Canada, Greenland and Iceland. Includes names of indigenous groups. Relief shown by hachures. From Gilbert's Modern atlas. Compass rose includes miniature map of the western hemisphere. Hand colored. 22 x 28...
Ms., mounted on linen. Depths shown by soundings. Tracing of Bucareli Bay, showing coastlines and depth soundings but no place names. Signed by George Davidson.
Ms., pen and ink on paper. Shows locations of cabins with owners' names, villages, creek and river names, mountains, caves and other geographical features along and adjacent to the Porcupine River. Relief shown by hachures. Base map: Porcupine...
Shows names of indigenous groups, forts, towns and Mackenzie's discoveries. Border includes geographical and historical information. Selective relief shown by hachures. Title in top margin: Carte geographique, statistique et historique des...
Shows names of indigenous groups, forts, towns and Mackenzie's discoveries. Border includes geographical and historical information. Selective relief shown by hachures. Title in top margin: Carte geographique, statistique et historique des...