Alaska -- Discovery and exploration.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harriman Alaska Expedition collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4689
Scope and content
Videotape and accompanying press kit. The videotape, "The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced," is a documentary concerning two scientific expeditions to Alaska, over 100 years apart. The original Harriman expedition in 1899 included 25 scientists, writers, and artists, among them Louis Agassiz Fuertes. A Smith College expedition in 2001 retraced Harriman's route. The film describes these two expeditions, noting the environmental damage and the change in society's attitudes over the...
Dates:
2002.
Notes about the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska
Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9009
Scope and content
One folder of non-sequential loose notes; some look to be hastily written on scrap paper. These contain descriptions of events; phonetic spelling of native words and their meanings; notes about sociology and class which may have been used as a basis for a publication. The second folder contains extensive notes removed from a notebook. Some pages appear to be missing. The notes are observations of the people covering many aspects. There is a list of common animal names and their translation....
Dates:
[1890-1900]