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
Ogrissek's daily diary (212 pages) records his trip from Jersey City in February, 1899 to the Alaska gold fields and back in September, 1899. The sketchbook accompanies descriptions in the diary of the scenery he encounters. The 26 drawings, almost al...
Description:
Ogrissek, who had been a liquor salesman in Jersey City, New Jersey, travelled to Alaska in 1898, 1899 and 1900 to make a fortune for his family. In 1899 he travelled across the country by railroad to Seattle and then up to southeastern Alaska to Skag...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Juneau Mining District., Berners Bay (Alaska), Chilkat River (B.C. and Alaska), Dutch Harbor (Alaska), Haines (Alaska), Ketchikan (Alaska), Lynn Canal (Alaska), Nome (Alaska), Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), Seward (Alaska), Skagway (Alaska), and Valdez (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Ogrissek, George A. and Denomie, Antoine.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Description and travel, and Gold discoveries
Photograph albums of a trip by steamer to Alaska, including photographs of the Steamer "Queen" sailing out of Tacoma, of Sitka, and ice flows and formations in Pyramid Bay, Yakutat Bay, Glacier Bay, and the Muir Glacier
Description:
Individual prints are 24.4 x 19.8 cm. or smaller. All photographs are accompanied either by manuscript or letterpress captions. One album lacks covers. One album includes newspaper clippings written by Woodhull, describing his trip from Tacoma to Al...
Subject (Geographic):
Treadwell Mine, Alaska, Wrangell (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Sitka (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Woodhull, L. and Queen (Steamer).
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Totem poles, and Description and travel
Photograph albums of a trip by steamer to Alaska, including photographs of the Steamer "Queen" sailing out of Tacoma, of Sitka, and ice flows and formations in Pyramid Bay, Yakutat Bay, Glacier Bay, and the Muir Glacier
Description:
Individual prints are 24.4 x 19.8 cm. or smaller. All photographs are accompanied either by manuscript or letterpress captions. One album lacks covers. One album includes newspaper clippings written by Woodhull, describing his trip from Tacoma to Al...
Subject (Geographic):
Treadwell Mine, Alaska, Wrangell (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Sitka (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Woodhull, L. and Queen (Steamer).
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Totem poles, and Description and travel
Two photograph albums of images created by Alfred L. Broadbent of landscapes, wildlife, ships, and individuals primarily in Alaska and Siberia, circa 1885-1892, and probably printed by the photograph gallery of Isaiah West Taber, San Francisco, Califo...
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (b. 1844) was an engineer aboard the USRC Bear, a ship in the United States Revenue-Cutter Service active in the Arctic region, circa 1885-1892.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Arctic regions, Arena, Point (Calif.), Atka Island (Alaska), Barrow, Point (Alaska), Bogoslof Island (Alaska), Chagulak Island (Alaska), Diomede Islands (Alaska and Russia), East Cape (Russia), Expedition Island (Alaska), Fairway Rock (Alaska), Fort Simpson (N.W.T.), Glacier Bay (Alaska), Golovin (Alaska), Grantley Harbor (Alaska), Hoonah (Alaska), Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Juneau (Alaska), Lisburne, Cape (Alaska), Nome (Alaska), Plover Bay (Russia), Point Reyes (Calif.), Point Spencer (Alaska), Port Chester (Alaska), Port Clarence (Alaska), Port Townsend (Wash.), Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska), Saint Lawrence Bay (Russia), Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska), Saint Michael Island (Alaska), Saint Paul Island (Alaska), Serdtse-Kamen, Cape (Russia), Severgin Strait (Russia), Siberia, Eastern (Russia), Silver Bay (Alaska), Sitka (Alaska), Thompson, Cape (North Slope Borough, Alaska), Ukivok (Alaska), Unalaska (Alaska), Wrangell (Alaska), and Yakutuk Bay (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Broadbent, Alfred L., McIntyre, Lucy., Swan, James G., 1818-1900., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Bear (Ship), Corwin (Ship), Rush (Ship), Wolcott (Ship), and United States. Revenue-Cutter Service
Subject (Topic):
Aleuts, Boats, Arctic peoples, Bidarkas, Cemeteries, Dogsledding, Eskimos, Indians of North America, Kayaks, Sealing, Whaling, and Description and travel
BEIN ZZc86 812Lia: Sobranīe kart i risunkov ... k Puteshestvīi︠u︡ ... S.-Peterburg, Morskai︠a︡ tip., 1812. 1 p. l., 13 maps (4 double) on 16 l., iii pl. 65 1/2 x 50 cm.
Publisher:
V tip Ḟ. Drekhslera
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska
Subject (Name):
Neva (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages around the world and Description and travel
The correspondence consists chiefly of letters from Stanley Pogozelski to his wife Mary C. Pogozelski. The letters were written from Yukon, Canada, and Alaska in 1943 and 1944, when Stanley worked as a laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway (also know...
Description:
Stanley Pogozelski worked as a civilian laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway, employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, during the Second World War.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., Yukon., Canada., United States., Alaska, Alaska Highway., and Yukon
Subject (Name):
Pogozelski, Mary C., Pogozelski, Stanley., Bechtel Corporation., H.C. Price Co., W. A. Bechtel Company., and W. E. Callahan Construction Company.
Subject (Topic):
Road construction workers, Roads, Design and construction, World War, 1939-1945, Transportation, and Description and travel
