Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis.
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Few pictures on this board show people at work as directly as this one, which captures hunters pursuing seals from a canoe in Glacier Bay. Edward S. Curtis took it in 1899 while serving as a photographer on the Harriman Alaska Expedition, a summer voyage financed by railroad magnate E. H. Harriman that carried scientists and artists along the Alaska coast. The expedition reached Glacier Bay while its tidewater glaciers were retreating, and its photographs preserve both the changing landscape and the subsistence practices of the Indigenous people who relied on the bay's waters.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 61316 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X225a. |
| Subjects | Harriman Alaska Expedition--(1899) Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--Alaska--Glacier Bay--1890-1900. Bays--Alaska--Glacier Bay--1890-1900. Hunting--Alaska--Glacier Bay--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,643 × 3,737 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221741 |
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