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A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August 1899.
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A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition: May-August 1899Creator/Contributor:
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899), creator., creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Averell, William H., 1849-1904, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Coe, Wesley R. (Wesley Roswell), 1869-1960, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Cole, Leon J. (Leon Jacob), 1877-1948, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Devereux, W.B., photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929, photographer.Abstract:
Photoprints taken on the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. Views depict landscapes, geographic features, towns, native Alaskans,
and expedition members. Many settlements are identified.
Date:
1899 (issued)Contents:
Volume I: New York to Cook Inlet -- Volume II: Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage.
Subject:
n-us-akAlaska Natives -- Photographs
Bays -- Alaska -- Photographs
Cities and towns -- Alaska -- Photographs
Glaciers -- Alaska -- Photographs
Islands -- Alaska -- Photographs
Inupiat -- Alaska -- Photographs
Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Photographs
Natural history -- Alaska -- Photographs
Scientific expeditions -- Alaska -- Photographs
Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- Photographs
Umiaks -- Alaska -- Photographs
Autochtones de l'Alaska -- Photographies
Baies -- Alaska -- Photographies
Villes -- Alaska -- Photographies
Glaciers -- Alaska -- Photographies
Îles -- Alaska -- Photographies
Inupiat (Inuits) -- Alaska -- Photographies
Sciences naturelles -- Alaska -- Photographies
Expéditions scientifiques -- Alaska -- Photographies
Oumiaks -- Alaska -- Photographies
Alaska -- Discovery and exploration -- Photographs
Cape Fox Village (Alaska) -- Photographs
Kodiak Island (Alaska) -- Photographs
Glacier Bay (Alaska) -- Photographs
Muir Glacier (Alaska) -- Photographs
Port Clarence (Alaska) -- Photographs
Pribilof Islands (Alaska) -- Photographs
Prince William Sound (Alaska) -- Photographs
Providence Bay (Russia) -- Photographs
Shumagin Islands (Alaska) -- Photographs
Unalaska (Alaska) -- Photographs
Sitka (Alaska) -- Photographs
Yakutat (Alaska) -- Photographs
Yakutat Bay (Alaska) -- Photographs
Alaska -- Découverte et exploration -- Photographies
Kodiak, Île (Alaska) -- Photographies
Glacier, Baie (Alaska) -- Photographies
Pribilof, Îles (Alaska) -- Photographies
Prince-Guillaume, Baie du (Alaska) -- Photographies
George W. Elder (Ship) -- Photographs
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) -- Photographs
Note:
Photoprints mounted on pages with printed captions and initials of photographers. Each album also has a printed title page.
"H.A.E." on a standard (insiginia for Harriman Alaska Expedition)--stamped in gold on album covers.
Includes a map showing the route of the voyage.
Original glass negatives for many of the images in these albums are present in the C. Hart Merriam pictorial collection at
The Bancroft Library
Railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman described his Alaska outing "as a summer cruise for the pleasure and recreation of my
family and a few friends." While he initially planned to extend his adventure only as far as Kodiak Island to engage in some
big game hunting, his party grew to include some of the country's foremost and distinguished scientific personnel, artists,
photographers, writers, and conservationists. On May 31, 1899, the members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition set sail from
Seattle on the steamship George W. Elder. For the next two months, they headed north to explore the waters and coastal territory
of Alaska. Twenty-three scientists including geologists, botanists, ornithologists, taxidermists, and zoologists engaged in
scientific investigation in their respective fields while enjoying E.H. Harriman's hospitality and leisurely lifestyle aboard
the steamship. John Muir, naturalist, explorer and conservationist, was an honorable member of the expedition. Muir had discovered
Glacier Bay and Muir Glacier on an earlier expedition with S. Hall Young in 1879. The Harriman Alaska Expedition stops included
Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay, Sitka, Yakutat Bay, Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, the Shumagin Islands, Unalaska, the Pribilof
Islands, Port Clarence, and Cape Fox, in addition to a short jaunt over to Plover Bay on the Siberian coast.
Over 5,000 photographs were taken on the trip. Upon the group's return, Harriman produced a two-volume souvenir album entitled
A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August, 1899. Volume 1, New York to Cook Inlet and ... Volume II, Cook Inlet
to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage, which included photographs by Edward S. Curtis, one of the official expedition photographers.
Photographs of the Harriman Alaska Expedition were taken by Edward S. Curtis, official expedition photographer; Edward Henry
Harriman, patron of the expedition; Clinton Hart Merriam, chief of the Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture;
Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, U.S. Geological Survey; Leon J. Cole, taxidermist; Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the
U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C.; William H. Averell, brother-in-law of Edward H. Harriman; Wesley R. Coe, assistant
professor of comparative anatomy, Yale University; W.B. Devereux, mining engineer; and D.J. Inverarity, Curtis's assistant.
Alaska State Library collection: PCA 305, Historical Collections, Alaska State Library.
Type:
graphicphotograph albums.
photographs.
scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Albums (Books)
Photographies.
Albums personnalisés.
Albums photographiques.
Physical Description:
photoprint
2 albums (277 photographic prints) : black and white ; 24 x 34 cm
Language:
English
Identifier:
https://alaska.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/609
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv20530
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