ARC 1176.292, View of Saint Matthew Island, Where we Collected the Snowflakes. July 15, 1899
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Record ID:
220583
Accession number:
ARC 1176.292
Photographer:
Edward S. Curtis
Title:
View of Saint Matthew Island, Where we Collected the Snowflakes. July 15, 1899
Summary:
View of seaside cliffs in Alaska.
Created:
ca. 1899
Printed/Manufactured:
United States, ca. 1905-1910
Description:
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, black and white ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Notes:
Title from Harriman Alaska Expedition photographic album.
Image also available in the online World Digital Library (viewed May 2021): The photograph is one of 386 preserved in a 127-page album held in the Albert K. Fisher Papers, "Harriman Alaska Expedition, 1899" photographic album, Box 52, Item 1, at the Library of Congress; title: View of Saint Matthew Island, Where we Collected the Snowflakes. July 15, 1899.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
Bibliography:
NAA MS 2010-28 National Anthropological Archives, Series 9.1, Edward Curtis negative log books, volume 1, "Harriman", page 51, negative number 395a: Cliffs, St. Matthew Island.
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