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
Cover title., In diary form: first entry, April 20, 1897; final date from a letter, January 19, 1898., Original wrappers., and Prepared for the press by Mrs. Roberts and Rev. J. G. Thomas of Lima, p.3.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Gold discoveries, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries, and Yukon Territory--Description and travel
Scrapbook made by Libbie Maltbie following a vacation trip to Alaska in August, 1909. Maltbie and her husband, Arthur L. Maltbie, and two friends, Hiland P. and Mary Lockwood, travelled to Alaska on the steamship City of Seattle, leaving Seattle, Washington, on August 4, 1909, passing among the islands of southeastern Alaska to Skagway, and returning on the Pacific side, stopping at Sitka, and reaching Seattle on August 15. The scrapbook contains mostly postcards, printed illustrations, and photographs taken by Arthur L. Maltbie, showing towns visited, buildings, natural features, and Indian totem poles and other aspects of Indian life. Photographs, some with the travelers pictured, are captioned in holograph by Libbie Maltbie. Also present are a printed map showing steamship routes, published by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; a few printed items relating to the City of Seattle; and a narrative written by Maltbie, holograph, 15 p., briefly describing the trip.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
City of Seattle (Ship), Lockwood, Hiland P, Lockwood, Mary, Maltbie, Albert L.,--b. 1866, Maltbie, Libbie, and Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Subject (Topic):
Alaska--History--Pictorial works and Postcards--Alaska--History--20th century
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
