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B2015.008.829
[view across river to glacier terminus]
.829 – [similar to .828]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2016.004.115.1
Main St., Fair Princess anchored [view down street to cruise ship at dock]
Collection: B2016.004
B2015.008.960
[map of Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska (1910)]
Keywords: map
Collection: B2015.008
B1970.019.633
View of Cook Inlet thru trees. 2.25 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B2015.008.810
Spruce forest near Sitka. A.H. Brooks. 375, Gilbert [man walking in wooded area,
carrying ax]
Keywords: forest, ax, logging
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.600b
(Hotel Windor){Hotel Cordova in Cordova several horses tethered to front hitching post}
Keywords: Cordova, hotel, lodging, horses
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.830
Forested glacier from a moving train [view across water to glacial moraine]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.639a
A snow bedstead at 8700 ft. 5.20.12 [hole dug in snow for sleeping, bedding on snow,
snowshoes propped at head]
Keywords: mountaineering, Mt Blackburn, snow shoes
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.244
Break water dams at point below Twenty Mile Creek. P. S. Hunt J1852 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks looking south, Turnagain Arm at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.618
[view across moraine to dogs pulling sled_four people helping pull]
Keywords: glacier, mountaineer, mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.619
[three climbers stopped on moraine_one carrying a tripod]
Keywords: mountaineer, mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.839
Getting sled around innumerable crevasses on Kennicott Glacier, on way home. Leader
ahead sounding [three climbers pushing loaded sled past crevasse on left, fourth climber in
distance]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, glacier, crevasse, climbing, climbers, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.836
9th day, 7 P.M. Crumbling rocks, ice slides & heavy packs on this ridge all afternoon, &
now to sleep on these rocks, no room for my tent, & 2 men’s bedding left behind an hr. back
to lighten loads. And after all to be driven down by storm next morning! 17 [view along rocky
ridge to climber standing at edge of snow line, second climber coming back down with three
dogs]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, climbing, climbers
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.021.6
7. Wrangell. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [bird’s eye view of town. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021
B2015.008.631b
154.9 How can we get up? 12050ft 43012[9] 45am[proof print 2 copies]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1301.dk564
564 [three climbers using ice picks to steady themselves on ledge above large
crevasse, Dora in lead]
Keywords: climber, climbing, crevasse, mountaineering, glacier, ice axe
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1301.dk564crop
564 [three climbers using ice picks to steady themselves on ledge above large
crevasse, Dora in lead]
Keywords: climber, climbing, crevasse, mountaineering, glacier, ice axe
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.834
[bird’s eye view of Kennicott Mine. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: mountains, mining, Kennicott
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.835
9th day, 4 P.M. Looking down from the ridge, up which we were now toiling, onto the
glacier that had balked us that morning, at about [circle]. Cracks 25 ft. inside that had kept us
from gaining the ridge direct. 16 [bird’s eye view of glacier with crevasses, Mount Blackburn
expedition, 1911?]
Keywords: glacier, seracs, climbing, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.833
[three people with luggage and supplies waiting on railroad platform, Kennicott Mine
buildings in background, Dora standing at left. Cf. .622]
Keywords: Kennicott
Collection: B2015.008
B1970.019.472
Mrs. Porter & Anna Mans in cache at Simonsons' ranch near Campbell Creek, 10/25/25 [women sitting in elevated wire cage]
Keywords: food
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection