Relief shown pictorially. "Tome 9, in-8o, page 118." "Carte No. 24, page 496, du tom. 18 in-4o et page 1ere du tom. 72 in-12." From Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et...
Relief shown pictorially. "Voyages 4o tom. XIX pag. 231.; Voyages in-12. Tom, LXXIV, pag. 235." Page 231 from vol. 19 of Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles' Histoire generale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages...
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Relief shown by hachures and form lines; depths shown by soundings. "From observations at the observatory at Thank God Harbor." Includes comparison chart of tidal relations and numerous profiles of coastline. Dissected and mounted on linen....
Caption: What Happens When A Territory Becomes A State? - In a radio interview with Washington correspondent Stuart Finley, offical representatives of the new country of Ghana and the 49th state of the United States discuss the similaritites and...
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. "Suivant les decouvertes du Hollandois et les cartes du Russes pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages." "Tome XV in 4o No. 3.; Tome 17 in 8o, page 331." "Grave par Blanchard." From Antoine...
Shows the Americas with California as an island and Greenland as part of a great polar continent. Sheet 1 of a two part set titled: Carte generale de toutes les costes du monde et les pays nouvellement decouvert, dressee sur les relations les plus...
Image of men on the beach of one of the Andreanof Islands. Caption reads: "Troops occupy Andreanof Island Group in Aleutians, 125 miles east of Jap-held [ Japanese held] Kiska. Here troops reach the beach and make off into the hills to set up...
Title from caption. Men, equipment and supplies land on the beach of one of the islands in the Andreanof Island group in the Aleutian Islands. Caption reads: "U. S. Army Troops occupy Andreanof Island group on Aleutians, only 125 miles...
(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
Hand colored. Title on left of map: Partie occidentale de l'Amerique septentrionale : ou sont compris de la Baye de Baffins, la Baye de Hutson, &c. No. 32 of De fransche neptunus, of nieuwe atlas van de zeekarten, opgenomen en gegraveerd door...
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Includes decorative cartouche. Inset: Partie nord ouest de l'Amerique. "Publiee en 1750 et corrigee en 1775, par le S. Robert de Vaugondy." Inset shows one of the latest of the many variations of...
Relief shown pictorially. Outline color. Includes decorative cartouche. Inset: Partie nord ouest de l'Amerique. Published in 1750 and corrected in 1783. Fairly detailed rendering of the United States, and some detail of eastern...
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC (Women's Army Corps) specialist & public relations officer." Notice the portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill placed prominently on the wall.
Title from verso. "Russian delegation to the international aviation conference starting in Chicago Nov 1, photographed as they arrived from Moscow at Headquarters of the Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, AAF in Edmonton, Canada....
Title from verso. "Russian officers in the briefing room, Ladd Field, Alaska. (Seated left to right: Major Yatzkevich, Major Lebedev, Sr. Lt. Vorobiev, Major Ivanov, and Major Novikov). Photo by US Army Air Forces." A type of airplane flight...
Title from verso. 'In the Officer's Club at ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome, (left to right) Capt. Nick Warush, base operations officers; Lieutenant Tripolsky of the Russian Air Force, and Capt. Orien Howard, pilot of the base search and...
Title from verso. "Maj. Gen Nicholas I. Petrev, of the Russian Army, bound from Moscow to Washington, steps from a C-47 Skytrain bearing the Red Star of Russia at Edmonton, Canada, base of the Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command. Photo by...