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Poster

Northern Pacific Railway Travel Poster: Alaskans — "Off to the Potlatch"

Date: 1947
Description: An original lithograph promoting Alaska, and to get there by way of the the Northern Pacific Railway. Features the artwork of Sydney Laurence, with a depic...
Photograph

Seaside Cottages

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Description: Two children pose for a portrait while standing along a shoreline next to a row of cottages. Several rowboats are pulled ashore, and people are on the cott...
Photograph

Milne Bay

Date: 08 11 1943
Description: A view of Milne Bay, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), from the sea. A ship can be seen on the right, at the shoreline.
Photograph

The Bombing of Cezembre Island

Date: 08 31 1944
Description: View from shoreline of Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. It was German-occupied until the Allies mounted an operation...
Map or Atlas

North America : Showing the Origin & Progress of the Storm of March 14-17, 1859, and How it Might Have Been Known Upon the Lakes a Whole Day Before it Reached Them!

Date: 1868
Description: This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ...
Photograph

Biological Laboratory at Signy Island

Date: 1965
Description: Elevated view of the Biological Laboratory in Antarctica.

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