Photographs of an expedition to Alaska on the U.S.S. Bear, 1891 [graphic].

Also included are portraits of school children at the mission school at Unalaska, and of native Aleutes [sic] and Esquimo [sic] aboard ship and in villages and of their dwellings, boats and totems.

Some views are commercially produced, though most appear to be personal photographs. There are individual and group portraits of the crews, passengers and officers of several ships, both on board and on shore, and a listing of the crew of the Bear appears on the fly leaf of the album. The photographs also record whalers and other ships encountered along the way.