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. P...
Description:
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 Grin...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Sitka (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Pribilof Islands (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Aleuts, Eskimos, Whaling, Sealing, and Description and travel
Album of photographic prints and drawings probably compiled by Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham that documents his inspection tour of British colonial surveying departments in Africa for the Colonial Survey Committee, February 1929 to November 1929.
Description:
Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (1878-1946) served in the South African War and World War I, and as Director-General of the General Ordinance Survey of Great Britain, 1930-1935.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Pictorial works, Egypt--Pictorial works, Ghana--Pictorial works, Kenya--Pictorial works, Malawi--Pictorial works, Nigeria--Pictorial works, Sierra Leone--Pictorial works, Sudan--Pictorial works, Tanzania--Pictorial works, Uganda--Pictorial works, Zanzibar--Pictorial works, and Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Eastman Kodak Company, Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee, and Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
Subject (Topic):
Blacks--Africa--Pictorial works, Surveying--Africa--Pictorial works, and Whites--Africa--Pictorial works
Photograph album with photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of mining town Ajo, Arizona, 1917-1918. Depicted are copper mining operations at the New Cornelia mine, as well as identified men and women. 9 photographs are attributed to Hadsel...
Description:
Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Arizona., and Ajo (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hadsell Foto.
Subject (Topic):
Copper miners, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers ...
Description:
Arthur Woods Wang, founder of publishing firm, Hill and Wang.
A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers ...
Description:
Arthur Woods Wang, founder of publishing firm, Hill and Wang.
