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 from caption. Photograph shows surf and waves crashing against the beach at Nome, Alaska. A pier can be seen in the background. Underneath the caption is written [e 20].
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Portable radio mast in centre, for contact with Chelan." Expedition members and crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan in one of the Chelan's surf boats, approaching the shoreline of Kagamil Island....
Title taken from information with photo. Large group of walrus on beach and in surf at Round Island in Walrus Islands, Alaska. Also from information with photo: "Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island group." May 1964. Photographer: Ward W. Wells....
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a beach in Nome, Alaska. Surf is breaking on the beach, driftwood sits around, and in the distance someone working on a beached boat can be seen. Original size is 5.5 in. x 3.5 in.
Title taken from caption. Photographer's number C45 "Cataloguer's note: A view of a body of water. In the far distance two ships are seen clearly, a third, located to the right is further away and vaguely visible. One senses a relative calm by...
Title taken from caption. Photographer's number C20 Cataloger's note: This is a view of possibly the sea. As the title suggests, the size and motion of the waves indicate stormy weather. The extended wharf is clearly visible to the left.
Title taken from caption. View of bald eagle on rock in surf. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. The expedition party was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard Duane (formerly the William J. Duane). Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of several buildings at an unidentified locale. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts two men standing on the beach at Cape Nome, holding shovels and using a rocker, or cradle, to remove gold from the sand. The man on the left stands in the ocean surf, and the man on the right stands on a...
Title taken from front. View of men in rowboat on Bering Sea beach, Nome, Alaska, with ships in background. From verso: "B.B. Dobbs, Photographic Supply Stores, Nome, Alaska. Printed in Great Britain." Photographer: B.B. Dobbs. Postcard (color)....