Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Published / Created:
c1899
Call Number:
ZZc86 899ha
Collection Title:
A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899 [graphic]
Container / Volume:
v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Edward Henry Harriman organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grinnell, Grove Karl Gilbert, John Muir, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Hart Merriam, and other scientists, artists and writers, as well as his own
Description:
Letterpress caption on album page.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) --Pictorial works
A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899 [graphic]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
Edward Henry Harriman organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grinnell, Grove Karl Gilbert, John Muir, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Hart Merriam, and other scientists, artists and writers, as well as his own
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)--Pictorial works
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Published / Created:
c1899
Call Number:
ZZc86 899ha
Collection Title:
A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899 [graphic]
Container / Volume:
v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Edward Henry Harriman organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grinnell, Grove Karl Gilbert, John Muir, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Hart Merriam, and other scientists, artists and writers, as well as his own
Description:
Letterpress caption on album page and manuscript caption identifying Mary Harriman, Cornelia Keeler, Dorothea Draper and others.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) --Pictorial works
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 Alaska, on the trail, and in Wrangell, Skagway and Dawson. The photographs are accompanied by typescript descriptions taken apparently from letters written home to his family, and one newspaper clipping of a printed letter by Esterly describing Alaska. There are snapshots of gold miners on ships, in camps, playing shell games, wandering the streets of Skagway and Dawson, and on the trail. Also depicted are Esterly's Dawson City Electric Light and Water Power Company, women in the towns, "Indian murderers," the "Newman Opera Co.," snowstorms, and the interior of Esterly's cabin. One photograph is by photographer E. A. Hegg., Previously, some photographs from this scrapbook on pgs. 7, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 29, 33, 41, 48, and 50 were digitized individually. The scrapbook was digitized in its entirety in 2021 to provide greater context for the individual images and the captions supplied by the creator., and The album is accompanied by a typescript "Narrative of the Expedition, 1904," written by an unidentified person who refers to Esterly as an entrepreneur; a letter written by Fenton Blakemore Whiting, reminiscing about the gold rush and con man Jefferson R. (Soapy) Smith; a letter written by Esterly to Whiting; three clippings; typescript poems about the gold rush; an advertising silk for an entertainment at Dawson; and two sets of typescript autobiographies by Esterly's father and grandfather, describing early days in Wisconsin, and his grandfather's farm machinery inventions.
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 Auditor to the Treasury Department from 1896 to 1910., Manuscript captions on mounts., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2001.
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
Box 1 contains the Correspondence series and the bulk of the Lectures and Photographs series. 2 (Broadside oversize) contains a large printed map of Alaska. and The papers include correspondence regarding Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard's journeys to Alaska, as well as lectures notes, writings, research files, and photographs of Alaska. The bulk of the correspondence is Hubbard's letters to his travel companion Edgar R. Levin; the correspondence also includes one 1950 letter from Levin to Hubbard and correspondence regarding the Alaskan voyages, including letters on supplies and Hubbard's lecture series. The Lectures and Photographs series includes Hubbard's lecture notes; research materials, including two printed maps of Alaska; manuscripts on "the Eskimo language" (possibly Inupiaq); notes on weather and salmon canning; and photographs of the Alaskan landscape and people. Accompanied by Hubbard's 1962 Washington Post obituary.
Alternative Title:
Photographs (6 of 7)
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and Alaska--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Hubbard, Bernard Rosecrans,--1888-1962 and Jesuits--United States
Subject (Topic):
Eskimo languages, Explorers--Alaska, Geologists--United States, Indians of North America--Alaska, Inuit language, Inupiaq dialect, and Salmon canning industry--Alaska
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 Columbian exposition in 1893, the Pullman strike, and his friendship with Buffalo Bill Cody; the 1898 Reindeer for Alaska Expedition which includes observations about Laplanders; the Glenn Expedition which introduced Kelly to the Alaskan interior and to geologist and photographer W. C. Mendenhall; the Harriman Expedition; Kelly's experiences in the Philippines; as well as communications with William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Each chapter excluding the first is preceeded by a summary of chapter contents and originally paginated as if carrying forward from Kelly's 1926 published volume. Includes a typescript review of "Yellowstone Kelly" attributed to Charles J. Finger. Accompanied by 27 photographs from Alaska and the Philippines, captioned on the verso in pencil and type, and notated for inclusion in specific chapters. Two prints are by Edward S. Curtis and fourteen are by W.C. Mendenhall.
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 mail routes to Yukon posts. In 1899 Kelly was hired by the Harriman Expedition and traveled in Alaska before being assigned to command a Philippine post at Dapitan in Mindanao. After successfully resisting a seige by escaped convicts and outlaws in March of 1903 in Surigao, Kelly was appointed Indian Agent at the San Carlos Agency in Arizona. He retired to Paradise, California where he wrote his memoirs; a portion describing his life through 1892 was published in 1926 as "'Yellowstone Kelly': the Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly". He died in 1928.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928 and Mendenhall, Walter C. (Walter Curran), 1871-1957
A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899 [graphic]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Edward Henry Harriman organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grinnell, Grove Karl Gilbert, John Muir, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Hart Merriam, and other scientists, artists and writers, as well as his own
Description:
Letterpress caption on album page.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska--Pictorial works and Totems--Pictorial works
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Published / Created:
c1899
Call Number:
ZZc86 899ha
Collection Title:
A souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition : May-August, 1899 [graphic]
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Edward Henry Harriman organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grinnell, Grove Karl Gilbert, John Muir, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Hart Merriam, and other scientists, artists and writers, as well as his own
Description:
Letterpress caption on album page.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) --Pictorial works
