Shows Novaya Zemlya and northern continental coastline. Includes notes on 1594/95/96 discoveries. Relief shown pictorially. Illustrated with sailing ships, sea monsters, various people and animals of the region, as well as Barents's hut, where...
Title from indexer. Additional narrative in donor notes reads: "Our sled dog Iolanthe, bred by Milton Swan in Kivalina, lost much of her left hind leg when, with her stake-out chain accidentally wrapped around it during one winter night, her...
(5:26 min.) (08 of 12) More on supply transportation Poorly prepared and equipped--Pushed caterpillars (bulldozers) off the top of ridge--3 of 4 survived--built switchback down to cats--escorting an engineer company
Photograph of the USS Juneau at dry dock. Probably just prior to commissioning. The USS Juneau was sunk just after the battle of Guadalcanal, only 10 of her crew survived. Five of the dead from this ship were the Sullivan...
Title from verso. A close-up shot of a man with closely cropped hair, dressed in suit and tie, head slightly turned towards the camera. He may be an employee of Wien Airlines.
After a message from Marty Wells, Don Everly's daughter, in...
One of the ships that helped launch the Klondike gold rush in 1897 when she steamed into port with purportedly a "Ton of Gold"; on November 12, 1910, the ship hit a rock and grounded near Katalla; all passengers and crew survived
One of the ships that helped launch the Klondike gold rush in 1897 when she steamed into port with purportedly a "Ton of Gold"; on November 12, 1910, the ship hit a rock and grounded near Katalla; all passengers and crew survived Name written...
Title from image caption Iced over ship on a reef Note: the crew and passengers, including the photographer, Thwaites, survived on the beach for 29 days before being rescued by a passing steamer, the S. S. VICTORIA Photographer's...