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English cairn on P.E. Cary Island, July, 1881 / G.W. Rice photo.

English cairn on P.E. Cary Island, July, 1881 / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing rock cairn during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 113.

Ice foot / G.W. Rice.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Ice foot / G.W. Rice.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph of ice dune during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 117.

Carl Ritter Bay -- north side. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Carl Ritter Bay -- north side. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Photograph showing sea with chunks of ice and mountains beyond during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.

[Members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

[Members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

Photograph shows several members of the expedition with dogs and sledge. No. 68.

Home at Conger, West, March, 1882

Home at Conger, West, March, 1882

Photograph shows building at Conger, during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 12.

[Woman looking through sextant on board the expedition vessel, George W. Elder, with two men and Capt. Peter Doran during Harriman expedition to Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

[Woman looking through sextant on board the expedition vessel, George ...

61279 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X417.

"Fort Magnesia" during winter - deeply buried in snow - Cape Sabine (79 deg. N. lat.), Ellesmere Land

"Fort Magnesia" during winter - deeply buried in snow - Cape Sabine (7...

Stereograph shows Dr. Leopold Kann standing next to the snow-covered winter quarters during Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island of 1899 to 1900. H16956 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & ... More

A halt in Collinson's fjord, Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition, April 1902

A halt in Collinson's fjord, Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition, April 1...

Photograph shows men with dogs unhitched from dogsleds at Collinson Fjord, Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia.

Fort Magnesia, the winter quarters of the Stein Arctic Expedition, Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land (79 deg. N. lat.)

Fort Magnesia, the winter quarters of the Stein Arctic Expedition, Cap...

Stereograph shows hut that served as the winter quarters during Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island of 1899 to 1900. H16964 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Interior of Fort Magnesia, Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land - winter visitors who accepted our hospitality

Interior of Fort Magnesia, Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land - winter visito...

Stereograph shows three Inuit men at a table inside the winter quarters during Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island of 1899 to 1900. H16976 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Fort Vancouver, W.T. / G. Sohon, del. ; Sarony Major & Knapp, Liths.

Fort Vancouver, W.T. / G. Sohon, del. ; Sarony Major & Knapp, Liths.

Print shows fort and activities there from a bird's eye perspective. U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys - 47th & 47th parallels. General report - plate XLIV.

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Bache Island from Kane Sea, Aug. 1881

Bache Island from Kane Sea, Aug. 1881

Photograph showing expanse of sea with land in the distance during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 79.

[Three men on deck of the H.M.S. Challenger studying Medusae, jellyfish] / E. Gulland ; Pearson, sc.

[Three men on deck of the H.M.S. Challenger studying Medusae, jellyfis...

Illus. in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876 ..., narrative, vol. 1, second part. London : Longmans & Co. ..., 1885, p. 603. Reference copy also avai... More

[Two men and two women seated in forest in Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

[Two men and two women seated in forest in Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

61513 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X463.

Roosevelt leaving Institute of Butantan with Sec. Altino Arantes

Roosevelt leaving Institute of Butantan with Sec. Altino Arantes

(Bain Coll.) Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

US Coast Guard Icebreaker Glacier, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

US Coast Guard Icebreaker Glacier, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Black Cañon Colorado River, from camp 8, looking above / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Black Cañon Colorado River, from camp 8, looking above / T.H. O'Sulliv...

Photograph showing a man sitting in a boat docked at the shore. No. 8. On mount: Exploration in Nevada and Arizona, expedition of 1871, Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler Com'd'g. Originally published: Photographs showing ... More

Upernivik [i.e. Upernavik], Greenland, July, 1881 / G.W. Rice photo.

Upernivik [i.e. Upernavik], Greenland, July, 1881 / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing village during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Public domain photograph - historical image of Canada, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eskimo relics found in the vicinity of Conger / G.W. Rice photo.

Eskimo relics found in the vicinity of Conger / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing implements, probably for hunting or fishing, found during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 129.

[Man in sun helmet followed by natives bearing packs]

[Man in sun helmet followed by natives bearing packs]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Liberty.

Crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat

Crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat

Men and dog sled crossing water on piece of an iceberg. K14586 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Frederick A. Stokes Company.

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Camp of the University party, North Shore, June 3 [...] 1868

Camp of the University party, North Shore, June 3 [...] 1868

Stereograph shows three men at camp site and tent. No. 39. Photo taken during a University of Michigan scientific expedition to Lake Superior in 1868. Photographer not named. "Fred Lockley, Rare Western Books, ... More

Chandler Fjord looking tword [i.e. toward] east Taken from moving ice, to the westward of Miller Island. At the break on centre of picture Chandler Fjord.

Chandler Fjord looking tword [i.e. toward] east Taken from moving ice,...

Photograph showing fjord with ice chunks during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 81.

[Two men with sled in front of a large ice formation during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

[Two men with sled in front of a large ice formation during the Lady F...

No. 103. Public domain photograph of a volcano, eruption, volcanic smoke, ashes, lava, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

[Members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

Photograph shows some members of the expedition with dogs and sledges. No. 65.

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Sgt. Jewell and Eskimo Christansen starting from Ft. Conger to support Dr. Octave Pavy, March, 1882]

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Sgt. Jewell and Eskimo Christans...

Photograph shows Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members with dogs and sled. No. 63. Caption on back of photo lists Dr. Octave Pavy as "Dr. Parry"

Presidential party crossing Lewis Fork, Snake River

Presidential party crossing Lewis Fork, Snake River

In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches sent whilst en r... More

U.S.S. Tigress. United States warship photograph collection

U.S.S. Tigress. United States warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edward S. Curtis - Packers / Curtis., Alaska

Edward S. Curtis - Packers / Curtis., Alaska

Group of men standing on board ship, Alaska, 1899. 61334 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from another copy. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X413.

Eskimo boy in center who went with Mr. Lapp [i.e. Mr. William Thomas Lopp] on relief expedition in 1898, and now has 1,600 deer worth possibly $40,000 at $25 a deer

Eskimo boy in center who went with Mr. Lapp [i.e. Mr. William Thomas L...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Significance: The development of roads and bridges within Zion National Park and other parks and monuments of southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona is a direct result of regional tourism promoted by the ea... More

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Significance: The development of roads and bridges within Zion National Park and other parks and monuments of southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona is a direct result of regional tourism promoted by the ea... More

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Significance: The development of roads and bridges within Zion National Park and other parks and monuments of southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona is a direct result of regional tourism promoted by the ea... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

[Sectional view of "Thunder Cape front., Sawyers Bay, 135 feet high"]

[Sectional view of "Thunder Cape front., Sawyers Bay, 135 feet high"]

Stereograph shows landscape and water; man sitting in distance. No. 68. Title from K. Jania, Reference Archivist, Bentley Historical Library, Univ. of Michigan. Photographer not named. "Fred Lockley, Rare Weste... More

View of the insulated table lands at the foot of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, del. ; C.G. Childs, sc.

View of the insulated table lands at the foot of the Rocky Mountains /...

Major Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1820. Reference copy in LOT 4390-D. Illus. in: James, Edwin / Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains,..., 1822-1823.

Limpia - Wild Rose Pass - A black and white drawing of a valley

Limpia - Wild Rose Pass - A black and white drawing of a valley

Illus. in: United States. Dept. of the Interior. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey ... by William H. Emory. 34th Cong., 1st sess. House Ex Doc. 135. Washington: C. Wendell, printer, 1857-... More

Bellot Island, with expeditionary stores in fore-ground, Aug. 1881 / G.W. Rice, photo.

Bellot Island, with expeditionary stores in fore-ground, Aug. 1881 / G...

Photograph shows expeditionary stores and game stand along a waterfront, during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 89.

Musk cattle killed on Mt. Cartmel, Aug. 1881

Musk cattle killed on Mt. Cartmel, Aug. 1881

Photograph showing dead musk oxen during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 128.

East end of Lyttleton Island with life boat cove in distance

East end of Lyttleton Island with life boat cove in distance

Photograph showing sea with snow-covered land beyond during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 77.

Eskimo Jens returning from seal hunt near Conger, June 1882

Eskimo Jens returning from seal hunt near Conger, June 1882

Photograph shows Eskimo with a seal strapped on a sled. No. 126.

General Stager at trout pond - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

General Stager at trout pond - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Photograph shows General Anson Stager fishing. On the rock where he is standing are fish and a fishing net. In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs ... More

"Fort Magnesia" during winter - deeply buried in snow - Cape Sabine (79 deg. N. lat.), Ellesmere Land

"Fort Magnesia" during winter - deeply buried in snow - Cape Sabine (7...

Stereograph shows Dr. Leopold Kann standing next to the snow-covered winter quarters during Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island of 1899 to 1900. H16965 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & ... More

Arctic explorers, preparing for the long winter - historic Cape Sabine and Baffin Bay (79 deg. N. lat.)

Arctic explorers, preparing for the long winter - historic Cape Sabine...

Stereograph shows Dr. Leopold Kann working with equipment during Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island of 1899 to 1900. H16978 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2.

[Two members of Frederick Cook's expedition, with U.S. flag stuck in igloo, at expedition camp site, North Pole]

[Two members of Frederick Cook's expedition, with U.S. flag stuck in i...

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Navajos H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Philadelphia

Navajos H.B. Mollhausen; T. Sinclair's lith., Philadelphia

Two Navajo on horseback carrying spears. Illus. from: U.S. Pacific railroad explorations and surveys. 35th parallel.

Theodore Roosevelt riding with others during the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to Brazil

Theodore Roosevelt riding with others during the Roosevelt-Rondon Scie...

Photo by Kermit Roosevelt. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Significance: The development of roads and bridges within Zion National Park and other parks and monuments of southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona is a direct result of regional tourism promoted by the ea... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

View of the Rocky Mountains on the Platte 50 miles from their base / S. Seymour, delt. ; F. Kearney, sculpt.

View of the Rocky Mountains on the Platte 50 miles from their base / S...

Illus. in: Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20,.../ compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition... Philadelphia : H.C. C... More

Natives and hut at Proven, Greenland, July, 1881

Natives and hut at Proven, Greenland, July, 1881

Photograph showing Inuit people and dogs at turf houses during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 107.

[Members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

[Members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]

Photograph shows two members of the expedition. No. 68.

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Lt. Lockwood, Sgt. Brainard, and Eskimo leaving Conger, April]

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Lt. Lockwood, Sgt. Brainard, and...

Photograph shows expedition members with dogs and sled holding American flag.

Eskimo relics found at Cape Band

Eskimo relics found at Cape Band

Photograph showing Inuit implements, probably for hunting or fishing, found during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 83.

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Dr. Octave Pavy and Jens skinning a seal]

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Dr. Octave Pavy and Jens skinnin...

Photograph shows expedition members skinning a seal. No. 127. Caption on back of photo lists Dr. Pavy as "Dr. Jary."

Members of the United States Geological Survey measuring a baseline near Fort Wingate, N.M., 1883

Members of the United States Geological Survey measuring a baseline ne...

Photograph showing men with surveying instruments in an arid landscape. ; handwritten on front of mount.

Camp Lake Bennett. Yukon Territory

Camp Lake Bennett. Yukon Territory

Composite photograph shows the actress Esther Lyons and another woman inserted into a scene of a campsite with photographer and author Veazie Wilson and a companion at Lake Bennett, British Columbia. Although L... More

[A man, possibly B.E. Fernow, seated next to river, tent on the right, mountains in background, Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

[A man, possibly B.E. Fernow, seated next to river, tent on the right,...

61438 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X299.

Coming out of a snow-covered "igloo" - a winter home in the Artics - Ellesmere Land

Coming out of a snow-covered "igloo" - a winter home in the Artics - E...

Stereograph shows Dr. Leopold Kann emerging from the entrance of an igloo during Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island of 1899 to 1900. H16958 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat

Crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat

Men and dog sled crossing water on piece of an iceberg. K14586 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Frederick A. Stokes Company.

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Roads & Bridges, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Significance: The development of roads and bridges within Zion National Park and other parks and monuments of southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona is a direct result of regional tourism promoted by the ea... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Expeditionary stores, game stand and steamer Proteus, Discovery Harbor / G.W. Rice, photo.

Expeditionary stores, game stand and steamer Proteus, Discovery Harbor...

Photograph shows barrels, crates, large stack of supplies, and game hanging on poles, during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 91

[Living quarters at Fort Conger Lake, 1881]

[Living quarters at Fort Conger Lake, 1881]

Photograph shows living quarters during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 9.

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Dr. Pavy, Sgt. Rice, and Jens starting north, March, 1882]

[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members Dr. Pavy, Sgt. Rice, and Jens st...

Photograph shows some Lady Franklin Bay Expedition members with dogs and sled. No. 54. Caption on back of photo lists Dr. Octave Pavy as "Dr. Parry"

House at Conger, East side, March, 1882

House at Conger, East side, March, 1882

Photograph shows building at Conger, during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 86.

[A man, possibly Lewis Rutherford Morris, seated in a canoe on a river in Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

[A man, possibly Lewis Rutherford Morris, seated in a canoe on a river...

61494 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X250.

Mending near the Pole - A black and white photo of two people on a sled

Mending near the Pole - A black and white photo of two people on a sle...

Member of Frederick Cook's journey to Greenland near the North Pole, seated on dogsled and mending clothing.

The devils thumb, ships boring and warping in the pack / Lithod. by Chas. Haghe after the original by Lieut. W.H. Browne ; printed by Day & Son.

The devils thumb, ships boring and warping in the pack / Lithod. by Ch...

Print shows two ships, probably the Enterprise and the Investigator, ice bound in Baffin Bay off Devil's Point in the Arctic; the crews work to break up the ice and tow the ships to open water. Caption continu... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

US Coast Guard Icebreaker Glacier, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

US Coast Guard Icebreaker Glacier, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Proteus in Discovery Harbor after discharging cargo] / G.W. Rice, photo.

[Proteus in Discovery Harbor after discharging cargo] / G.W. Rice, pho...

Photograph shows the steamship Proteus in Discovery Harbor after discharging cargo for the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Conger is in the background. No. 119.

[Building at Conger in course of erection, Aug. 1881]

[Building at Conger in course of erection, Aug. 1881]

Photograph shows building five days into construction, during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 90.

English depot just north of Cape Hawks, August, 1881

English depot just north of Cape Hawks, August, 1881

Photograph showing snowbank with water and mountain beyond during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 111.

Africa, rubber tree - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Africa, rubber tree - Frank G. Carpenter collection

A man, possibly Homer L. Shantz, full-length portrait, holding a rifle, seated on the ground in front of a large rubber plant. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Theodore Roosevelt seated in a boat during the during the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to Brazil

Theodore Roosevelt seated in a boat during the during the Roosevelt-Ro...

Photo by Kermit Roosevelt. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

US Coast Guard Icebreaker Glacier, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

US Coast Guard Icebreaker Glacier, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Distant view of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sculpt.

Distant view of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sc...

Illustration shows members of Major Stephen H. Long's expedition marching across the plains toward the Rocky Mountains. Buffalo can be seen in the distance. Illus. in: Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh ... More

Arctic wolf killed near Fort Conger / G.W. Rice photo.

Arctic wolf killed near Fort Conger / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing dead wolf on old door during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.

Raft, Lake Linderman. Yukon Territory

Raft, Lake Linderman. Yukon Territory

Photograph shows the actress Esther Lyons inserted into a scene of a raft with photographer and author Veazie Wilson and a companion on Lake Lindeman, British Columbia. Although Lyons wrote a series of articles... More

[Members of Frederick Cook's journey expedition at the North Pole, with U.S. flag stuck in igloo, at camp site]

[Members of Frederick Cook's journey expedition at the North Pole, wit...

Copyright by the N.Y. Herald Co. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rio Janeiro - Roosevelt at Club Dos Diarios with Dr. L. Muller

Rio Janeiro - Roosevelt at Club Dos Diarios with Dr. L. Muller

Photo shows President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) with Dr. Lauro Severiano Müller (1863-1926), Brazilian Secretary of State for Foreigh Affairs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil before the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientifi... More

[Three men in fur parkas holding guns on ship during Arctic expedition]

[Three men in fur parkas holding guns on ship during Arctic expedition...

J177037 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Northern Ventures Limited, New York. No. 720.

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

[U.S. Geological Survey pack train on trail along the Yellowstone River]

[U.S. Geological Survey pack train on trail along the Yellowstone Rive...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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