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
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several...
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Na...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Sitka., Sitka (Alaska), Tatoosh Island (Wash.), Washington (State), and Wrangell Island (Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879, Fuller, John A., 1828-1909., Sitka Lutheran Church (Sitka, Alaska), and St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Fishing lodges, Indians of North America, and Dwellings
Photograph albums of a trip by steamer to Alaska, including photographs of the Steamer "Queen" sailing out of Tacoma, of Sitka, and ice flows and formations in Pyramid Bay, Yakutat Bay, Glacier Bay, and the Muir Glacier
Description:
Individual prints are 24.4 x 19.8 cm. or smaller. All photographs are accompanied either by manuscript or letterpress captions. One album lacks covers. One album includes newspaper clippings written by Woodhull, describing his trip from Tacoma to Al...
Subject (Geographic):
Treadwell Mine, Alaska, Wrangell (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Sitka (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Woodhull, L. and Queen (Steamer).
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Totem poles, and Description and travel
Photograph albums of a trip by steamer to Alaska, including photographs of the Steamer "Queen" sailing out of Tacoma, of Sitka, and ice flows and formations in Pyramid Bay, Yakutat Bay, Glacier Bay, and the Muir Glacier
Description:
Individual prints are 24.4 x 19.8 cm. or smaller. All photographs are accompanied either by manuscript or letterpress captions. One album lacks covers. One album includes newspaper clippings written by Woodhull, describing his trip from Tacoma to Al...
Subject (Geographic):
Treadwell Mine, Alaska, Wrangell (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Sitka (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Woodhull, L. and Queen (Steamer).
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Totem poles, and Description and travel
Two photograph albums of images created by Alfred L. Broadbent of landscapes, wildlife, ships, and individuals primarily in Alaska and Siberia, circa 1885-1892, and probably printed by the photograph gallery of Isaiah West Taber, San Francisco, Califo...
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (b. 1844) was an engineer aboard the USRC Bear, a ship in the United States Revenue-Cutter Service active in the Arctic region, circa 1885-1892.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Arctic regions, Arena, Point (Calif.), Atka Island (Alaska), Barrow, Point (Alaska), Bogoslof Island (Alaska), Chagulak Island (Alaska), Diomede Islands (Alaska and Russia), East Cape (Russia), Expedition Island (Alaska), Fairway Rock (Alaska), Fort Simpson (N.W.T.), Glacier Bay (Alaska), Golovin (Alaska), Grantley Harbor (Alaska), Hoonah (Alaska), Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Juneau (Alaska), Lisburne, Cape (Alaska), Nome (Alaska), Plover Bay (Russia), Point Reyes (Calif.), Point Spencer (Alaska), Port Chester (Alaska), Port Clarence (Alaska), Port Townsend (Wash.), Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska), Saint Lawrence Bay (Russia), Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska), Saint Michael Island (Alaska), Saint Paul Island (Alaska), Serdtse-Kamen, Cape (Russia), Severgin Strait (Russia), Siberia, Eastern (Russia), Silver Bay (Alaska), Sitka (Alaska), Thompson, Cape (North Slope Borough, Alaska), Ukivok (Alaska), Unalaska (Alaska), Wrangell (Alaska), and Yakutuk Bay (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Broadbent, Alfred L., McIntyre, Lucy., Swan, James G., 1818-1900., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Bear (Ship), Corwin (Ship), Rush (Ship), Wolcott (Ship), and United States. Revenue-Cutter Service
Subject (Topic):
Aleuts, Boats, Arctic peoples, Bidarkas, Cemeteries, Dogsledding, Eskimos, Indians of North America, Kayaks, Sealing, Whaling, and Description and travel
Photographs of Alaskan cities and scenery, including views in Sitka of the Greek Church and Russian Block House, street scenes in Juneau, the Treadwell Mill and Mine, totems at Fort Wrangell, the Indian River, Muir and Takou Glaciers, and of the Steam...
Description:
Photographs are mounted on both sides of ten boards, with manuscript or letterpress captions.
Photographs of Alaska and British Columbia, including views of scenery along the Frazer River, ice flows, steamships, totem poles, and views of Sitka and of the Block House at Nanaimo, British Columbia
Description:
Manuscript and/or letterpress captions on some mounts.
Photographs in Sitka of the Greek Church, steamers along the pier, native Alaskans sitting on the boardwalk, houses, and tents. There is a single photograph of men and women aboard a boat, and many views of scenery, including glaciers, mountains and r...
Photograph album and loose photographs of a voyage to Alaska on the U.S.S. Bear, including views of St. George and Kings Island, seals on St. Paul's Island, the mission school, a native boat race, walrus hunting and related activities on Cape Prince o...
Description:
In 2 boxes.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., Alaska, Pribilof Islands (Alaska), and Sitka (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Broadbent, Alfred L. and Bear (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Totem poles, and Sealing
