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B2015.008.471
George, setting the charges [four men working next to damaged house]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.124
2463(92514)(1130am)(Coxe Glacier close by)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.461
18. West Hartford stores, fronts washed out by flood of Nov. 3, 1927 [gasoline pump in front of building at right, building at left with signs “F.L. Worthley - Son Service Quality General Merchandise” and “Post Office, West Hartford, Vt.”
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.472
After the foundations had been made to collapse, by dynamiting them [house roof on ground]
Collection: B2015.008
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
B2015.008.963
[map with Copper River on west and Kennicott Glacier on east]
Keywords: map
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.570
3 days old, going to pasture [man with sheep and lamb along road]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.LundbergA.1
(Lundberg A Passport Photos 1933)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2015.008.435
See how the poplars have grown
Keywords: farm, farm house, vermont
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
B2015.008.426
Franconia Notch, N.H., Sept. 1924. En route to Maine, on our first vacation [automobiles parked next to small tents in clearing]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.380
Chicken house starting its way to become George’s shop [man with two-horse team pulling small building across yard, two men working at back of building]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.485
Orchard after snow, with beehives [distant view of boxes in orchard]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.693
233.5. Where to now? 9.13.14 [view across glacier to valley glacier, climber in
foreground negotiating crevasses. H.L. Tucker. Cf. .888]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.324
Tarring sheep’s noses. George & Norman Freeman [George wearing straw hat with young man holding sheep in yard, Dora’s nephew. Cf. .326]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.326
Tarring sheep’s noses. George & Norman [young man, Dora’s nephew, looking into camera as he holds sheep’s nose and George holds sheep’s rear. Cf. .324]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.729a
[wedding portrait of George and Dora, couple standing in clearing in woods, Dora holding bouquet, George wearing leather arm protectors]
Keywords: wedding
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.782a
T6 [bird’s eye view of glacier terminus and hanging glacier, brush in foreground]
.782b – [same as .782a]
Keywords: glacier, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.967
78.7. Miss Dora Keen on Elsa in Fairmount Park [Dora on horseback in wooded area,
Philadelphia. Additional caption information erased. With Stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: horse, horseback riding
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.725b
324.5-6 [small format panoramic photograph, town or camp along railroad tracks,
probably Copper River & Northwestern Railway]
Keywords: Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.726
325.5. To mark the spot. 7.8.16, McCarthy, Alaska [tree stumped carved with heart and
cross for Keen-Handy wedding. Proof print]
Keywords: wedding
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.293
Over 100 years old, April 1917 [brick house]
Keywords: vermont, farm, farm house
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.327
Nydia, blind purebred Arab, bred by Spencer Borden [horse in field. Cf. .992]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.427
Our first camp since Alaska days [George seated at folding table next to automobile parked by small tent, second automobile and tent in background]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.730
– [wedding portrait of George and Dora, couple standing arm-in-arm, George’s hat on ground]
Keywords: wedding
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.830
Forested glacier from a moving train [view across water to glacial moraine]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1056b
Camp sports [man standing on back of horse, Mount Rainier in background]
Keywords: mountains, Mt Rainer, horse
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1242a
30d. Andes, near Puente del Fuca, Argentina [scenic. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.617b
Trying to find a way down McClellan Glacier root 10th day 530pm [dog sitting next to pack in foreground_pole in snow in center_view down glacier to two climbers scouting ice_Proof Print]
Keywords: dog, mountaineer, mountains, Mt Blackburn, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.955
(Enlarge) Alaska is 1/5 the size of the U.S., but has only 65,000 pop., because its vast
resources cannot well be developed until railways are built, and this is too costly for private
capital [map of Alaska with passenger ship route, cable and wireless stations, inset of United
States. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: map
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.777.dk568
568 [view across glacier to snow-covered mountain, Mount Gilbert Lewis? has neg]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, Mount Gilbert
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.777.dk568negcrop
568 [view across glacier to snow-covered mountain, Mount Gilbert Lewis? has neg]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, Mount Gilbert
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.418
400 bushels to the acre, 1922. Ball ground [flowering plants in field]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.419
Passing inspection with high rating. Bean field [distant view of two men in field of flowering bean plants. Cf. .1003]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.434
West Hartford Library, Vt., 1925. Washed away by flood, Nov. 3, 1927 [West Hartford Town Library in winter]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.728
[George carving tree stump “pulpit” while preacher leafs through Bible]
Keywords: wedding
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.731
[wedding portrait of George and Dora, couple holding hands. Original image blurry]
Keywords: wedding
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.777a
568 [view across glacier to snow-covered mountain, Mount Gilbert Lewis? has neg]
.777b – 568
Keywords: glacier, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.777b
568 [view across glacier to snow-covered mountain, Mount Gilbert Lewis? has neg]
.777b – 568
Keywords: mountains, mountaineering, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1024
[bird’s eye view of hay field during mowing, bales on truck in foreground at right]
.1025
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1238
The Penitentes, Andes of Argentina. Seen from the R.R. pass (12,000 ft.) which Roosevelt has just gone to and from Valparaiso, Chile [With stamp of Dora Keen. Copy print]
Collection: B2015.008