Cook Inlet Exploration Expedition

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Description

Title: Cook Inlet Exploration Expedition
Creator: From the Collection: Brooks, Alfred H. (Alfred Hulse), 1871-1924
Contributor: From the Collection: Smith, Philip S. (Philip Sidney), 1877-1949
From the Collection: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Published / Created: 1898 June 29-October 23
Description: Cook Inlet Exploration Expedition under the command of Captain Edwin Forbes Glenn (1857-1926) in south-central Alaska explored the country north of Cook Inlet to discover the most "direct and practicable" route from the coast to the Tanana River.
Images include a group portrait of the expedition, interior and exterior views of the salmon cannery for the Pacific Steam Whaling Company at Prince William Sound; views of the steamer Salmo, and a group portrait of Native American men and others in a ship. Identified individuals include Lieutenant Joseph C. Castner, Walter Curran Mendenhall, Private George W. Van Schoonhoven, Private Adelbert L. Canwell, and guide Harry H. Hicks.
Provenance: Purchased from Vintage Photographs on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2009.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Blank versos not digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

WA Photos 444

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Container / Volume

Box 8, folder 705-712

Access: Public
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Citation: Alfred Hulse Brooks Photographs and Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.