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