Photograph album of commercial views of Alaska, including Wrangell Narrows, scenery along the Indian River, tourists at Irving Falls in Gardners Inlet, Taku Inlet, Glacier Bay and the Steamship "Queen" among the icebergs.
Description:
Caption on recto.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Queen (Steamship)
Subject (Topic):
Steamboats--Alaska--Pictorial works and Tourism--Alaska--Pictorial works
Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
Description:
Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
