May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
53 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Doore Collection, 1960-1965". Film shows people boarding a plane in Shungnak and disembarking in Fairbanks.
"Wainwright. Left to right: captain, engineering officer, government nurse, (who travels by dog-team) two school-teachers, our doctor, navigator. The nurse is nice, and just as rugged as they come." Photograph possibly taken on USCG Spencer, 1939.
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Manuscript map. Shows Krenitzin's and Levashev's voyage from Kamchatka to the Fox Islands in 1768 and 1769, and was purportedly secured from Catherine II by or for the Scottish historian William Robertson by his friend Dr. Rogerson, the Empress's...
Map of northwestern North American and the Russian Far East, including Bering Strait. Shows tracks of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Jakob von Storcksburg Stahlin. References: Wagner, 633; Falk 1773-1.
Ms. (blueline copy), hand colored with red pencil. Shows tracks of the voyages of Bering and Chirikov in 1741. Includes the Aleutians, and the south coast of Alaska down to the Queen Charlotte Islands. Attributed to Cecil Robe.
Ms. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows Constantine Harbor and part of Nuchek Bay (modern-day Port Etches). Penciled annotations in Russian, including note that may be translated as "1829 survey[?] of Mr. Chernov." ...
Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading; depths shown by soundings. Depth in sazhens [approx. 2.13 meters], from the chart of Mr. La Perouse, supplemented from the surveys of Captain Lieutenant Zarembo. Signed, with annotations, by...