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1. Mirage of Muir Glacier, seen from Glacier Bay
- Creator:
- Badlam, Maude
- Published / Created:
- 1889, Jul 23
- Call Number:
- WC 20982
- Collection Title:
- The wonders of Alaska, by Alexander Badlam. With illustrations and maps
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel
- Collection Created:
- San Francsico, The Bancroft company, 1890
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirage of Muir Glacier, seen from Glacier Bay
2. "Who are we?"
- Creator:
- 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
- Collection Created:
- 1899
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Who are we?"
3. Fire drill
- Creator:
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Steamboats--Alaska--Pictorial works
- Collection Created:
- 1899
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fire drill
4. Sealers' camp in Glacier Bay
- Creator:
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Sealing--Alaska--Pictorial works
- Collection Created:
- 1899
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sealers' camp in Glacier Bay
5. George Max Esterly Alaska gold rush papers
- 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 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > George Max Esterly Alaska gold rush papers
6. Prof. Willoughby's "silent city," Muir Glacier
- Creator:
- French, L.B
- Published / Created:
- 1889, Jun 21
- Call Number:
- WC 20982
- Collection Title:
- The wonders of Alaska, by Alexander Badlam. With illustrations and maps
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel
- Collection Created:
- San Francsico, The Bancroft company, 1890
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prof. Willoughby's "silent city," Muir Glacier
7. Alaska with parts of Siberia Canada and Washington showing the route of the Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899
- Creator:
- Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
- Call Number:
- ZZc86 899ha
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alaska with parts of Siberia Canada and Washington showing the route of the Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899
8. Relics
- Creator:
- Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America--Alaska--Pictorial works and Totems--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relics
9. Alaska vacation scrapbook, [ca. 1909].
- Creator:
- Maltbie, Libbie
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1909]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2171
- Image Count:
- 22
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alaska vacation scrapbook, [ca. 1909].
10. Transcript of journal
- 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 the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
- 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