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[Glaciers, Alaska] / Curtis. – Vintage Wall Art

[Glaciers, Alaska] / Curtis., c1899. — historic photograph
[Glaciers, 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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Step back in time with [Glaciers, Alaska] / Curtis., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Glaciers were the main subject of this print, which Edward S. Curtis made as the expedition's official photographer. The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was a summer voyage along the Inside Passage and the Alaskan coast, financed by railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, whose name appears in the copyright notice. Curtis's photographs from the trip record the ice fields and tidewater glaciers that drew the scientists and tourists aboard, and they remain a valuable visual record of Alaska's coastline at the close of the nineteenth century.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesCopyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X215.
SubjectsHarriman Alaska Expedition--(1899) Glaciers--Alaska--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-221737

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