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
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing Eskimo mask, in gray, white, black, light brown, and salmon on a pale blue-gray background
Alternative Title:
Eskimo mask, western Alaska
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc12 939in 6: From the library of Alfred Heller.
Publisher:
Federal Art Project, WPA
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, California, and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Golden Gate International Exposition
Subject (Topic):
Eskimo masks, Eskimos, Indians of North America, Commemoration, Spiritual life, Arts & crafts, and Masks
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing Haida Indian blanket design consisting of a stylized humanoid figure with upraised arms, printed in red, blue, and white against a black backgrou...
Alternative Title:
Blanket design of the Haida Indians, Alaska
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc12 939in 2: Blind stamp in upper left: Federal Art Project. From the library of Alfred Heller.
Publisher:
Federal Art Project, WPA
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Pictorial works., California, and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Golden Gate International Exposition
Subject (Topic):
Haida Indians, Indians of North America, Commemoration, Arts & crafts, and Blankets
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 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...
