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Alaska views and Tlingit crest poles
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Totem pole at Hoonah, Alaska
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Totem Poles at Kasa-an [Kasaan], Alaska
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The 54 prints in this collection depict Alaskan nature scenes, various views of town life (mainly in Sitka), and some Native American totems; these photographs were made ca. 1892. This collection provides insight into the Alaskan environment just before the Klondike Gold Rush. The collection is particularly strong in images of Muir Glacier and the cities of Sitka and Wrangell ca. 1892. In addition to images of these places, the collection includes images of Alaskan Natives; Alaskan Native totem poles; Killisnoo, Alaska; the Native American community of Kasaan, Alaska; the steamboat Star Queen; various glaciers; and Treadmill Mill and Mine at Douglas Island.
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Totem Pole at Honoo [Hoonah], Alaska
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The 54 prints in this collection depict Alaskan nature scenes, various views of town life (mainly in Sitka), and some Native American totems; these photographs were made ca. 1892. This collection provides insight into the Alaskan environment just before the Klondike Gold Rush. The collection is particularly strong in images of Muir Glacier and the cities of Sitka and Wrangell ca. 1892. In addition to images of these places, the collection includes images of Alaskan Natives; Alaskan Native totem poles; Killisnoo, Alaska; the Native American community of Kasaan, Alaska; the steamboat Star Queen; various glaciers; and Treadmill Mill and Mine at Douglas Island.
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Totem Poles at Fort Wrangle [Wrangell], Alaska
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Views of Skagway, Metlakatla, and Ketchikan, Alaska, and environs
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An album with 42 cyanotypes depicting a route along Alaska's Inside Passage including Skagway, Metlakatla, and Ketchikan, and showing street scenes, boats, buildings, people, crest poles (or totem poles), scenic views, and railroad views. Several photographs are taken across bodies of water towards small coastal towns and villages. The images include the church of William Duncan, a Church of England missionary, and crest poles at the Tsimishian community. There is a photograph of the U.S.S. Iowa in dry dock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington.
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Travels in Alaska by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 148: "+ looking more nearly you may trace the branching of their fairy shining stems, + note the marvelous beauty of their [memorable?] flowers; the glumes + pales exquisitely penciled, + the yellow dangling stamens + feathery pistils. Beneath the lowest leaves of the grasses" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 58): A Glacial Fiord • Facing page 14: Islands in the Inside Passage to Alaska. • Facing page 20: In Grenville Channel. • Facing page 32: An Indian Totem Pole at Wrangell. • Facing page 36: Alaskan Indians in Canoes. • Facing page 86: Luxuriance of Coastal Vegetation. • Facing page 90: Alaskan Chief and Totem-Pole at Wrangell. • Facing page 114: The Alaskan Coast Range, from a summit near Glenora Peak. • Facing page 122: Devil's-Club. • Facing page 128: Glacial Ice-Caves. • Facing page 148: Forest bordering a Stream. • Facing page 174: In Glacier Bay. • Facing page 176: Sunset in Glacier Bay. • Facing page 192: Stranded Bergs in Glacier Bay. • Facing page 218: Overlooking Lynn Canal. • Facing page 238: Alaska Indians employed at a Salmon Cannery. • Facing page 258: Alaska Salmon Crowding up Stream. • Facing page 260: Floating Icebergs. • Facing page 288: The Taku Fiord. • Facing page 290: The Taku Glacier. • Facing page 312: Dundas Bay. • Facing page 318: The Muir Glacier. • Facing page 330: Steamer "Queen." [Native Indian canoes in the foreground] • Facing page 334: The Norris Glacier. • Facing page 336: Early Morning in Glacier Bay. • Facing page 340: Ice-Cliff at the Foot of Muir Glacier.
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