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A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899
Title
A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899 [graphic].
Published
1899.
Physical Description
2 albums (230 photographic prints, map) : b & w ; 24 x 34 cm.
Notes
Letterpress captions on album pages.
Biographical / Historical Note
Edward Henry Harriman made his fortune in the stock market, and became active in the consolidation of rail lines in the late nineteenth century. In 1899 he organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grinnell, Grove Karl Gilbert, John Muir, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Hart Merriam, and other scientists, artists and writers, as well as his own wife and five children, and assorted other friends and relations.
Edward S. Curtis, then working as a studio photographer in Seattle, accompanied the Harriman Expedition as official photographer. Photographs in the album are by Curtis, Gilbert, Harriman, Merriam and others.
Summary
Photograph albums documenting the voyage and return trip of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska. There are views of passengers and crew aboard ship and ashore, glaciers and tundra, sealing in the Probilof Islands, and whaling fleets at Port Clarence. Photographs of native Alaskan villages and camps include views of temporary and permanent structures, boats, totem poles, baskets and carvings, as well as women and men identified as Aleuts or Eskimos. Photographs of Alaskan flora and of a bear hunting trip are also present.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
v. 1. New York to Cook Inlet - v. 2. Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the return voyage.
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Photographic prints.
Photograph albums.
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