Box 1 contains the Correspondence series and the bulk of the Lectures and Photographs series. 2 (Broadside oversize) contains a large printed map of Alaska. and The papers include correspondence regarding Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard's journeys to Alaska, as well as lectures notes, writings, research files, and photographs of Alaska. The bulk of the correspondence is Hubbard's letters to his travel companion Edgar R. Levin; the correspondence also includes one 1950 letter from Levin to Hubbard and correspondence regarding the Alaskan voyages, including letters on supplies and Hubbard's lecture series. The Lectures and Photographs series includes Hubbard's lecture notes; research materials, including two printed maps of Alaska; manuscripts on "the Eskimo language" (possibly Inupiaq); notes on weather and salmon canning; and photographs of the Alaskan landscape and people. Accompanied by Hubbard's 1962 Washington Post obituary.
Alternative Title:
Photographs (6 of 7)
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and Alaska--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Hubbard, Bernard Rosecrans,--1888-1962 and Jesuits--United States
Subject (Topic):
Eskimo languages, Explorers--Alaska, Geologists--United States, Indians of North America--Alaska, Inuit language, Inupiaq dialect, and Salmon canning industry--Alaska
Also included are portraits of school children at the mission school at Unalaska, and of native Aleutes [sic] and Esquimo [sic] aboard ship and in villages and of their dwellings, boats and totems. and Some views are commercially produced, though most appear to be personal photographs. There are individual and group portraits of the crews, passengers and officers of several ships, both on board and on shore, and a listing of the crew of the Bear appears on the fly leaf of the album. The photographs also record whalers and other ships encountered along the way.
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Of the loose photographs, most are inscribed with the initials "A.L.B" with the exception of single images credited to Curtis of Seattle, T. Saiki, and McMurry of Port Townsend, Washington Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works and Unalaska (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship) and Broadbent, Alfred L
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Of the loose photographs, most are inscribed with the initials "A.L.B" with the exception of single images credited to Curtis of Seattle, T. Saiki, and McMurry of Port Townsend, Washington Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works and Unalaska (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship), Broadbent, Alfred L, and World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
At St. Michael’s Island, there are views of the trading station, the Greek church and Russian block house, the buildings of the Alaska Commercial Company, and natives in camp., In Sitka, there are views of the Greek Church, the governor’s house and other public buildings, and of native women curio sellers who turn their backs to avoid having their pictures taken., 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 of Wales, the Bering Straits and natives and landscapes of the Siberian coast, the Indian River, and views of floating ice in the Arctic Ocean., and Some views are commercially produced, though most appear to be personal photographs. There are individual and group portraits of the crews, passengers and officers of several ships, both on board and on shore, and a listing of the crew of the Bear appears on the fly leaf of the album. The photographs also record whalers and other ships encountered along the way.
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Album photographs measure 11.2 x 19.5 cm. and are all inscribed with the initials "A.L.B."
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works, Pribilof Islands (Alaska) --Pictorial works, and Sitka (Alaska) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship) and Broadbent, Alfred L
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Sealing --Alaska --Pictorial works