Photograph albums of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service in Alaska and Siberia

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, California, circa 1895

Images of Alaska include mainland locations, islands, and trading posts. Locations in mainland Alaska include Point Barrow, Glacier Bay, Port Chester, Port Clarence, Golovin, Grantley Harbor, Juneau, Cape Lisburne, Nome, Cape Prince of Wales, Silver Bay, Cape Thompson, Sitka, Wrangell, and Yakatuk Bay (also known as Disappointment Bay). Alaskan islands include Atka Island, Bogoslof Island, Chagulak Island, the Diomede Islands, Expedition Island, Fairway Rock, Saint Lawrence Island, Saint Michael Island, Saint Paul Island, Ukivok (also known as King Island), and Unalaska Island. Images of trading posts in Alaska include camps established at Cape Lisburne and Saint Michael Island

Images of Eskimos and Arctic peoples include informal portraits of groups, including a group of mixed-race children, and individuals aboard ship and on land, as well as their homes in several Alaskan locations, including Port Clarence, Saint Lawrence Island, Saint Michael Island, Point Spencer, and Ukivok, in addition to homes at East Cape, Siberia. Several images show native individuals in kayaks and bidarkas, and assemblages of bows, spears, and clothing, and an image shows a team of dogs and a sled. Other images show gravesites of Arctic peoples in various Alaskan locations, including Hoonah, Point Hope, and Saint Michael island

Images of ships include vessels in the United States Revenue-Cutter Service, consisting of USRC Bear, USRC Thomas Corwin, USRC Richard Rush, USRC Oliver Wolcott. Images of other ships consist of whaling ships, including Carver, J. H. Howland, Hunter, Lucretia, and Helen Mar, with several images showing the cutting of blubber from whales aboard a ship. An image shows the wrecks of two ships, the Mabel and George & Susan in the Arctic Ocean

Images of the coastline in Siberia include East Cape, Plover Bay, Severgin Strait, Saint Lawrence Bay, Cape Serdtse-Kamen (also known as Cape Serdge).

Images of wildlife include herds of caribou and reindeer in Alaska and Siberia, rookeries of seals, which include men clubbing seals; and a dead walrus aboard a ship

Incidental images of other locations consist of views of California showing Point Reyes and the vicinity of Point Arena; views of Port Townsend, Washington; views of Fort Simpson, Northwest Territory; and a view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Canada and the United States

Group portraits identify civilians and members of the crew by their surnames. Fully-identified persons consist of Lucy McIntyre and Judge James Gilchrist Swan