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B2015.008.606
(Mt Blackburn still a day away)(cold camp){two tents set up on glacier with Mt Blackburn in the back ground}
Keywords: Mt Blackburn, mountains, camping, tent, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.613
(1238){a single person walking on the glacier below Mt Blackburn}
Keywords: Mt Blackburn, mountains, glacier, mountaineer
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.610
{panoramic photo of Mt Blackburn and surrounding peaks and glaciers}
Keywords: glacier, mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.612
{panoramic photo of Mt Blackburn and surrounding peaks and glaciers}{copy of image B2015_008_610}
Keywords: glacier, Mt Blackburn, mountains, panoramic
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.894
Mt. Blackburn, Aug. or Sept. 1914. Sewell [log bridge over creek in foreground,
mountains in distance]
Keywords: mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.609
(121_12 Panoramic with 122_1_ Mt Blackburn from base camp 6th day_ 122_1 Panoramic with 121_12 Mt Blackburn 6am and Mr Barrett wasing in glacial pool 6th day)
Keywords: glacier, Mt Blackburn, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2533
Mt. Blackburn - 225 - Aero 2 [?] - f4.5 [August 1938]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B2015.008.611
{panoramic photo of Mt Blackburn and surrounding peaks and glaciers showing route taken by Dora and her team}
Keywords: glacier, Mt Blackburn, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.815
Crossing crevasses on gee poles, 8th day. 7 [roped-up climber on all fours on poles,
large crevasse at right, pole in snow at left. Keen’s Mt. Blackburn attempt 1911 or 1912. Cf.
.630 et seq.]
Keywords: Mt Blackburn, mountaineering, climbers, glacier, crevasse
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.872
[bird’s eye view of glacier and mountain peaks, route indicated with black dots at left,
possibly Mount Blackburn. Cf. .611]
Keywords: Mt Blackburn, mountains, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2534
Hewitts. Washburn. Mt. Blackburn. Ultra Special Cyfa [?] 6:30 P.M. Aug. 15 - 225 - f16 - red filter
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B2015.008.842
Raining [three-dog team pulling sled, three climbers pushing, crossing crevasses,
probably Kennicott Glacier. Cf. “First expedition to Mt. Blackburn” (1912)]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, glacier, crevasse, climbing, climbers, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.814
Blackburn from above Kennicott. 30 [bird’s eye view looking through trees to river
valley, mountain in distance]
Keywords: Kennicott, Mt Blackburn, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.628b
154_4 D.K. at 12,000 ft. 845am 9th day Miss Dora Keen climbing Mt Blackburn Alaska Subject of her lecture Sat Evening April 18 at Brooklyn Institute [proof print has stamp of Dora Keen][Dora wearing brimmed hat and climbing belt using pick to climb steep slope]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.616
exploring an ice cave on Mt Blackburn[roped climber smoking pipe holding ice pick standing in ice cave]
Keywords: mountaineer, mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.822
Blackburn above clouds. Nearing last camp, 5.23.12, 5 A.M. 29 [view looking up to
mountain, nunatak at right, climber harnessed to sled at left]
Keywords: mountaineering, Mt Blackburn, glacier, crevasse, camping
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.895
Mt. Blackburn & Kuskulana Glaciers, Alaska, Aug. or Sept. 1914. Rob. Sewell, Oyster
Bay, L.I., N.Y. [view across wooded flat to glacier moraine, mountains in distance. Robert Van
Vorst Sewell, photographer?]
Keywords: Wrangell Mountains, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
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