Shows eastern tip of Asian continent, including Kamchatka with northwestern North America mostly blank west of Hudson's Bay. Includes notes on circumstances and veracity of various discoveries. Relief shown pictorially. From: Histoire generale...
Title from verso. Photograph of a village in the Aleutian Islands. Date of 6/13/42 on verso probably relates to when the photo was used by Acme rather than when it was taken. Words in brackets are crossed out and a note is written...
Photograph of Marines in trenches during an air raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "America's west coast was threatened when Japan staged a surprise attack on Dutch Harbor, the U. S. Naval Base at the tip of Alaska. Here U. S. Marines are...
Title from verso. Mt. Veniaminof blows black smoke. The eruption is photographed from an airplane. Verso reads: "Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska -- Out on the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula Mt. Veniamanof, oldest known volcano and estimated to have...
Title from verso. Postcard of False Pass, Alaska as seen from Steamship Victoria. Caption reads No. 1. Verso reads: "This is one of the villages you would see en route to home. It is "False Pass" in the Aleutian Islands. We were here...
Shows western tip of the Aleutians, from Attu to Semisopochnoi Island. Shows tracks of Billings and Sarychev. Inset: Note sur les Iles Aleutiennes [giving short descriptions of the topography, exploration, native peoples, and resources of the...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. "Douglas Island from Juneau" Cataloguer's note: This is a broad view of this area; to the right are the mountains and the tip of the shore is visible on the left. A small sail boat can be seen directly ahead.
Title by cataloguer. This is a view of the landscape surrounding the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A small portion of the Bunnell building is visible at the tip of the right hand corner. The narrow road heading up the steep hill at the center...
Title taken from back of photograph "Gambell mountain at its front the gravel split with Gambell village at its tip." Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hosp., Baltimore., MD.
Verso: "Photograph by G. McCreary. Kenai Lake (Southern tip at Mile #18). Bear Lake. Seward Airstrip. Hi-way + R.R. EKlutna School. Jesse Lee Home. Army Dock. School. New Seward Hotel. Photoshop. Standard Oil Dock. Ocean D." Photo...
Aerial view of Sparrevohn Dome (possibly radome?) at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Aerial view of Sparrevohn Dome (possibly radome?) at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.