Portrait traditionally identified as Vitus Jonassen Bering. This identification is questioned, following the discovery in 1991 of Bering's remains and the forensic reconstruction of his facial features. Portrait is possibly Vitus Pedersen Bering,...
Title from verso During the last days of the battle of Massacre Bay, several Japanese prisoners were taken. Instead of being killed as the Japanese feared they would be, they were well treated, fed, and provided with candy and cigarettes. Then...
(5:25 min.) (07 of 28) 7. Across the Atlantic Georgetown, French Guyana was the next stop, not Africa. The ship was zigzagging; the Captain and First Mate would open orders each day and set a new course. On board was a Pan Am navigator;...
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.