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| Title | Muir Glacier on Glacier Bay, ca. 1904 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | ca. 1904 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Muir Glacier on Glacier Bay, Alaska. Photo by F. H. Nowell
Printed on verso: 5003. Published by Lowman and Hanford CO., Seattle. Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay, Alaska. Muir Glacier is 350 square miles in area, with a front 3 miles wide and 300 feet high. It moves at the rate of 40 feet a day. The mountains in the background are 15, 000 feet high.
Photographer Frank H. Nowell is known to have taken photos of icebergs and glaciers in Alaska from 1900-1909..
Filed in: Alaska-Ice Forms-Glaciers |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Glaciers--Alaska; Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Muir Glacier (Alaska); Glacier Bay (Alaska) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Muir Glacier |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC1537
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Postcard Collection |
| Object Type | Postcard |
| Physical Description | 3.5 x 5.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from an original photographic postcard using a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f at 110 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005. |
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