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B2019.019.IB7-20
Explorer Glacier - Portage, 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Portage, Explorer Glacier, Glaciers
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1979.002.Album1.178
74. Portage Glacier. Thomas Riggs Jr. [three men walking on glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.282
R33-1. Portage Bay (Whittier Glacier in background) [railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.96
W. C. Guerin at Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir [two men at foot of glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.111
7A. C. R. Breck at Spencer Glacier. C. R. Breck [man standing at foot of glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.153
R24-4. Kennecott Glacier [distant view with mountains in background, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.89
W. C. Guerin's party moving camp across Portage Glacier. W. C. Guerin [six men on glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.102
Looking up Bear Creek - Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir [two men in rowboat on water at foot of glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.131
R24-2. Miles Glacier [view of glacier terminus, possibly taken from tracks of Copper River & Northwestern Railway, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.160
R18-12. F. Mears, Mike Sullivan, Portage Glacier [Lt. Frederick Mears and Mike Sullivan walking across glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.90
W. C. Guerin's party moving camp across Portage Glacier. W. C. Guerin [five men and packhorse on glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.106
R16-6. Portage Glacier and Bear Creek and Turnagain Shoulder. R. J. Weir [man in rowboat on water at foot of glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.94a
R. J. Weir at Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir [two men at foot of glacier, one sitting on top of iceberg, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.97
R. J. Weir at Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir [two men at foot of glacier, one sitting on top of iceberg, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.694
233.6. 9.13.14 [two climbers negotiating crevasses, Dora at left. Published in “First
exploration of the Harvard Glacier, Alaska” (1915) with caption: “On a narrow ice bridge
between deep crevasses, exploring the Harvard Glacier. Note the heavy packs. Miss Keen in
the rear”]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.105
R16-10. North portal of 13,000 foot tunnel. R. J. Weir [view across valley to hanging glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.277
R17-7. Mike Sullivan's cabin, Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir ["Portage Glacier" crossed out in pencil. Distant view of homestead at base of glacier, log cabin and tent at right, second cabin at left, rowboat on gravel bar in center, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, houses, residences
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.101
R17-15. Looking down Bear Creek. R. J. Weir [two men in rowboat on water at foot of Portage Glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.175
66. Bear Creek Flats. Thomas Riggs Jr. [written on back: "Bear Creek Flats Portage Route." scenic with glacier in mountain valley, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.130
R24-3. C & NW Ry [view of gravel riverbed, probably taken near Miles Glacier from tracks of Copper River & Northwestern Railway, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.126
10-C. Crib Dike Mile 54 1/2 A.N. Ry. C. R. Breck [wooden dike on gravelly river near Spencer Glacier, Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.125
8C. Looking south A.N.R. track Mile 54 1/2. C. R. Breck [view down railroad tracks over gravelly river near Spencer Glacier, Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.964
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.964b
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.964c
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008