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| Title | Aerial view of LeConte Bay, n.d. |
| Photographer | McDonough, P.A. |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | On verso of image: A beautiful sight from the empyrean. The midsummer ice on LeConte Bay had the appearance of water lilies or stars in an inverted sky. These "bergs" were as large as ships. Note the vast forest. U.S. Navy Official Photo. P.A. McDonough, Chief Photographer, Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition.
PH Coll 334 McDonough.1 |
| Contextual Notes | LeConte Bay is 1 mile across and located at the sound end of Frederick Sound, 17 miles southeast of Petersburg. It was named in 1887 by Lt. Comdr. C.M. Thomas, USN, for Joseph LeConte, professor of geology at the University of California at that time. The Indian name is Hutli, reported by John Muir, in 1884, for the Tlingits' mythical thunder bird, the flapping of whose wings produces the thunder. [Source: Donald Orth. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967.] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska; Ice--Alaska--Le Conte Bay; Aerial photographs |
| Subjects (LCSH) | LeConte Bay (Alaska)--Aerial views |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--LeConte Bay |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC0226
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Early Photographers Collection. PH Coll 334 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
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