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ARC 1176.286, Alaska Peninsula, Pavlof

BIB_ID
220562
Accession number
ARC 1176.286
Creator
Edward S. Curtis
Creator date
1868–1952
Object title
Alaska Peninsula, Pavlof
Summary
A seascape with the Aleutian mountain range and Pavlof Volcano in the distance.
Created
ca. 1899
Printed/Manufactured
United States, ca. 1905-1910
In note
Edward S. Curtis lantern slides, 1898-1926.
Place
United States, manufacture place.
Description
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, black and white ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Notes
Title from album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August, 1899. Volume II, Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage, see leaf 144 for a very similar photograph of this subject; University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection (PH Coll 333); dated July 1899, caption title: Alaska Peninsula, Pavlof; repository title: Pavlof Volcano on the west side of Pavlof Bay, Alaska, July 1899; photograph attributed to Clinton Hart Merriam, this could be a vary similar shot of the same subject taken by Curtis as a member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
Classification
Department