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[Icebergs, bay, and mountain in background, Alaska] / Curtis. – Vintage Print

[Icebergs, bay, and mountain in background, Alaska] / Curtis., c1899. — historic photograph
[Icebergs, bay, and mountain in background, Alaska] / Curtis., c1899.. Historic photograph from the Alaska collection.

(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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[Icebergs, bay, and mountain in background, Alaska] / Curtis.

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Icebergs drift across the water of an unnamed bay in this c1899 view, with a mountain rising behind them. The picture was made during the Harriman Alaska Expedition, a summer 1899 voyage along the Alaska coast financed by railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman. The expedition carried scientists, artists, and photographers, and Edward S. Curtis, then a young Seattle portrait photographer, was among those who recorded the trip. Views like this one, with ice floating in front of glacier-fed water, document the coastal landscape that the expedition's naturalists were studying at the time.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreLandscape photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesCopyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X216.
SubjectsHarriman Alaska Expedition--(1899) Icebergs--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,658 × 3,742 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221748

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