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- Creator:
- Esterly, George Max
- Published / Created:
- 1898-1929.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2413
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 62
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Photograph album documenting George Esterly's Alaska gold rush experience, accompanied by related correspondence, writings, and clippings, and typescript biographies of his father and grandfather. The album contains 185 photographs taken on the way to...
- Description:
- George Max Esterly of Wisconsin was an entrepreneur who travelled to Alaska during the 1898 Alaska gold rush. His grandfather George Esterly, moved to Wisconsin in 1836 and was a farm machine inventor. His father George W. Esterly served as Deputy Aud...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Gold discoveries--Pictorial works, Dawson (Yukon)--Pictorial works, Skagway (Alaska)--Pictorial works, and Wrangell (Alaska)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Esterly, George Max, Esterly, George W., d. 1914, Esterly, George, b. 1809, Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948, Smith, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1898, and Whiting, F. B. (Fenton Blakemore), 1868-1936
- Subject (Topic):
- Agricultural machinery--Design and construction, Crime--Alaska, Criminals--Alaska, and Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > George Max Esterly Alaska gold rush papers
3.
- Published / Created:
- 1898 May
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2467
- Collection Title:
- Memoirs describing expeditions and military service in Alaska and the Philippines
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 10
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Typescript memoirs, with manuscript corrections in pen and pencil, by Luther S. Kelly describing his adventures and exploits in the West, Alaska, and the Philippines after 1892. Thirteen chapters describe Kelly's experiences in Chicago at the Columbia...
- Description:
- Luther S. Kelly, known also as "Yellowstone Kelly", was a trapper, hunter and Army scout. In 1898 Kelly was sent to Alaska to serve on the Reindeer for Alaska Relief Expedition. He was later assigned to an expedition under E. F. Glenn that scouted mai...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928 and Mendenhall, Walter C. (Walter Curran), 1871-1957
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mendenhall, Walter C. "Yellowstone Kelly. Portage Bay Alaska"
4.
- Creator:
- Meigs, Peveril, 1847-1921
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2718
- Collection Title:
- Travel diary
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 77
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of th...
- Description:
- Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Kuiu Island
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Transcript of journal
