Base map: Map of Alaska, compiled under the direction of Alfred H. Brooks. Inset: Map of Aleutian Islands from Seguam Island west to Attu Island. Includes list of villages with missions. Map is 32 x 45 cm.
Ms., photographic reproduction. Relief shown by contours, hachures and pictorially. Oriented with north to the upper right. Includes index to existing and proposed buildings, telegraph and telephone lines, and roads. "Compiled and drawn under...
View of the Seward, Alaska railroad depot surrounded by piles of rocks. To the right of the depot is what appears to be a building under construction. 1920-1930? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/4".
Details of the S.S. Yukon shipwreck near Seward, Alaska. Note the boiler that is under water facing the stern from the main deck. Original size of photograph: 5" x 7".
"The hydraulic operation at Crooked Creek under full working head in the spring run of water. It was quite a show. Like most of the operations it was always too little water to operate the 'giants' and too darn much gravel mixed with the gold." ...
Title taken from news clipping. Photograph used in a February 17, 1959 issue of The Washington Daily News. The news paper clipping also had a capion that read: "A push for Washington 'home rule' got under way this morning when two models...
Title taken from verso. The following is from a caption attached to the back of the photograph: "As a Twenty-eight-year-old graduate student in 'human geography,' Don Charles Foote traveled to Point Hope under an AEC research contract. For...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Includes tides table and sailing directions. Chart No. 704. "Surveyed in 1879 under the direction of Commodore W.D. Whiting U.S.N. chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, by the...
Title from accompanying notes. Peter Haase looking out from under his backpack. From above hangs a flag reading "Northway Alaska" on the back side and with "[Helen] + John Peffer" hand-written on the front.
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Printed under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and included in the Society's A Series of Maps Modern and Ancient, No. 5. Engraved by J. & C....
Signed "Rear Admiral M. White." Manuscript map on verso. Paper cut from margins of other maps attached with tape to make a drawing surface large enough for verso map.
Published in Poultry, England in 1851 by J.D. Potter. Scale is not...
Relief shown by hachures. Printed under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. No. 5 of the Society's A series of maps, modern and ancient. Engraved by J. & C. Walker.
Shows tracks of various ships. Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. Plate...
Insets: Chart of the territories discovered & examined by the searching expeditions under the command of Cap. Austin & Cap. Penny, 1851 -- Beechey Island, site of Sir J. Franklin's winter quarters, 1845-1846. From Bartholomew's Supplement to...
Relief shown by hachures. "Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." "Using information from Hudson Bay Comps. M.S.S. Parry, Franklin, Beechey, Graab &c." No. 72 of A series of maps, modern and...
Photo of the interior of the Episcopal Church in Nome, Alaska decorated for the Easter celebration, 1902. The platform has a cross-covered pillow and what looks to be a fur or bear skin rug leading up the steps. The...
Photograph of Kodiak after Katmai volcanic eruption. Statement on verso states that "The dead color on ground and mountains is volcanic ash. This is a view at Kodiak two years after the eruption of Katmai Volcano."
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....
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows southern Alaska including southeastern Alaska to Dixon Sound and Aleutian Islands to Unalaska. "No. 21." Mounted on linen.
Published in [Washington D.C.] by United States Coast Survey in...