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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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Image of a whaling ship in sea ice.
photCL 131 (282)
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Image of a large panoramic view of a whaling scene depicting a wide range of whaling activities on various boats and ships, including a whale being harpooned at right; captions printed under the image provide labels for those activities, as well as geographical points; walruses on ice floes at bottom left and right.
priTEC 0066
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Image of American whaling ships stranded in ice in the Arctic; captions in the lower margin identify the locations and ships pictured (left to right): "Sea Horse Islands. Roman. Point Belcher. Concordia. Gay Head. George."
priTEC 0052
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Image of the whaling bark Carver in the Arctic Ocean.
photCL 131 (175)
