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| Title | Member of the Harriman Expedition canoeing in Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier, Alaska, June 1899. |
| Photographer | Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952 |
| Date | 1899 |
| Notes | From album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May - August, 1899. Volume 1, New York to Cook Inlet, leaf 30
Just after this was taken, a huge berg fell off, the wave almost swamping the canoe and washing overboard a series of very large negatives of the glacier front. (Harriman Expedition, v.1)
Caption on image: Before the Great Berg Fell
Photograph taken by Edward S. Curtis, official photographer, member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Glaciers--Alaska--Glacier Bay
Ice floes--Alaska--Glacier Bay
Canoes--Alaska--Glacier Bay
Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
Glacier Bay (Alaska)
Muir Glacier (Alaska)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Glacier Bay |
| Digital Collection | Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection
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| Order Number | HAR125 |
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| Negative Number | Harriman 30 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection. PH Coll 333
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | silver gelatin, b&w
Safety film copy negative (4 x 5 in.), B2/F14, good |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3. 11/1998. |
