File:Member of the Harriman Expedition canoeing in Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier, Alaska, June 1899 (HARRIMAN 35).jpg

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English: Member of the Harriman Expedition canoeing in Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier, Alaska, June 1899.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Edward S. Curtis  (1868–1952)  wikidata:Q433128
 
Edward S. Curtis
Alternative names
Birth name: Edward Sheriff Curtis; Edward Curtis; E. S. Curtis; E.S. Curtis; Edward Sherriff Curtis
Description American photographer, anthropologist, explorer, film director and screenwriter
Date of birth/death 16 February 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1952 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Whitewater Los Angeles
Work period 1896 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
United States of America; Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q433128
Title
English: Member of the Harriman Expedition canoeing in Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier, Alaska, June 1899.
Description
English: From album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May - August, 1899. Volume 1, New York to Cook Inlet, leaf 30

Just after this was taken, a huge berg fell off, the wave almost swamping the canoe and washing overboard a series of very large negatives of the glacier front. (Harriman Expedition, v.1)

Caption on image: Before the Great Berg Fell

Photograph taken by Edward S. Curtis, official photographer, member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Glaciers--Alaska--Glacier Bay; Ice floes--Alaska--Glacier Bay; Canoes--Alaska--Glacier Bay; Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Glacier Bay (Alaska); Muir Glacier (Alaska)
Depicted place Glacier Bay
Date Taken on 1 June 1899
Medium
English: silver gelatin, b&w
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
35
Source
English: Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection
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Public domain

The author died in 1952, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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HAR125

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