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Tied up to an ice flo, waiting a victim seal, duck, or walrus
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Tied up to an ice flo, waiting a victim seal, duck, or walrus
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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
The Ice Cream man (Leche (?)) Nevada
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A view of a man with an ice cream container on his head and two boys next to him eating ice cream.
photCL Pierce 01272
The Warrior and his Bride
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An Ute man wearing body paint and holding rifle, seated on horse. An Ute girl is seated on a horse next to him.
photPF 3704
Dr. H. Cox's compound syrup of sarsaparilla
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Image of a product wrapping for Dr. H. Cox's compound syrup of sarsaparilla; half-length portrait of Dr. Hiram Cox at center; explorer/naturalist with rifle and herbs in hand at left; ailing man seated next to a table and cat at right.
priJLC_MED_004484
The father of waters
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Image of five Native American Indian men traveling on a raft along a river; one is seated holding a rifle, three men pole the boat along the water, and the last man stands in the center wearing a feathered headdress; a box and a barrel advertising Anheuser-Busch are the only other cargo on the raft.
priJLC_BEV_001842
Corwin in the ice
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Image of the masts and stack of a ship in the ice. There are six men standing on the ice.
photCL 131 (221)