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
Ogrissek's daily diary (212 pages) records his trip from Jersey City in February, 1899 to the Alaska gold fields and back in September, 1899. The sketchbook accompanies descriptions in the diary of the scenery he encounters. The 26 drawings, almost al...
Description:
Ogrissek, who had been a liquor salesman in Jersey City, New Jersey, travelled to Alaska in 1898, 1899 and 1900 to make a fortune for his family. In 1899 he travelled across the country by railroad to Seattle and then up to southeastern Alaska to Skag...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Juneau Mining District., Berners Bay (Alaska), Chilkat River (B.C. and Alaska), Dutch Harbor (Alaska), Haines (Alaska), Ketchikan (Alaska), Lynn Canal (Alaska), Nome (Alaska), Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), Seward (Alaska), Skagway (Alaska), and Valdez (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Ogrissek, George A. and Denomie, Antoine.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Description and travel, and Gold discoveries
Atlas severozapadnykh beregov Ameriki ot Beringova proliva do mysa Korriėntes i ostrovov Aleutskikh s prisovokupleniem nekotorykh mest severovostochnago berega Azii, Gidrograficheskīi︠a︡ zami︠e︡chanīi︠a︡ kʺ atlasu si︠e︡verozapadnykhʺ beregovʺ Ameriki, ostrovovʺ Aleutskikhʺ i ni︠e︡kotorykhʺ drugikhʺ mi︠e︡stʺ Si︠e︡vernago Tikhago okeana, Gidrograficheskii︠a︡ zamechanii︠a︡ k atlasu severozapadnykh beregov Ameriki, ostrovov Aleutskikh i nekotorykh drugikh mest Severnogo Tikhogo okeana, Атлас северозападных берегов Америки от Берингова пролива до мыса Корриэнтес и островов Алеутских с присовокуплением некоторых мест северовосточнoго берега Азии, Гидрографическія замѣчанія къ атласу сѣверозападныхъ береговъ Америки, острововъ Алеутскихъ и нѣкоторыхъ другихъ мѣст Сѣвернаго Тихаго океана, and Гидрографическия замечания к атласу северозападных берегов Америки, островов Алеутских и некоторых других мест Севернoго Тихoго океана
Description:
BEIN EEga 852T: Printed label on inside front cover: Cat. [with manuscript 786].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, California, Pacific Coast (North America), Asia, Pacific Coast., Alaska., California., and North America
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
