Skeletons near Cape Thompson -- Alaska

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  Skeletons near Cape Thompson-Alaska

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  The 282 photographic prints in this collection document voyages of the United States Revenue Cutters "Bear," "Corwin," and "Richard Rush" to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict the boats, Captain Michael A. Healy, Frank A. Healy (Healy's son), the crewmen of the afore-mentioned revenue cutters; Alaskan natives and their homes; and various views of the Alaskan wilderness and towns. The collection provides insight into the people and events the "Bear" and "Corwin" encountered on their voyages while under the command of Healy. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; whaling ships; ice fields in the Arctic Ocean; J.B. Vincent, a survivor of the shipwrecked "Napoleon"; Francis "Frank" Fuller, murderer of Archbishop Charles John Seghers; Alaskan native umiaks and various artifacts; and reindeer stations. Photographers who contributed to this collection include H.W. Bradley, Edward DeGroff, Lt. C.D. Kennedy of the USRC Maine, Geoff Knight, William H. Rulofson, and I.W. Taber. See also photCL 97 for related photographs concerning the "Corwin". The photographs were originally part of the Huntington's Manuscripts collection for Papers of Michael A. Healy, 1881-1900, call number mssHM 47577-47618.

  photCL 131

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  Watering ship at Cape Thompson -- Alaska

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  Image of five men and a lifeboat on the beach.

  photCL 131 (60)

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  Interior of native hut. St. Lawrence Island. All inhabitants having died of starvation

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  Image of the skeletal remains of native inside a hut.

  photCL 131 (214)

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  Yaqui hung to a tree. Part of skeleton still hanging, Mexico

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  Skeletal remains in the branches of a tree.

  photCL Pierce 09494

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  Cape Lisburne Trading Station -- Alaska

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  Image of a wooden building on the beach with people sitting along its side, and two smaller structures to the right of it.

  photCL 131 (67)

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  Natives at rendezvous near Icy Cape -- Alaska

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  Image of a large group of natives in front of a wood and animal hide structure.

  photCL 131 (71)