Mary Harriman Rumsey collection of Harriman Alaska Expedition photographs

Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...

Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912

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Charles Schreyvogel was a German-American artist and contemporary of Frederic Remington most noted for his paintings of conflicts between the U.S. Cavalry and Native Americans. From the description of Charles Schreyvogel papers, circa 1880-1962. (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). WorldCat record id: 58795210 Charles Schreyvogel, a contemporary of Frederic Remington, was primarily known for his Western paintings and sculpture depicting conflict between Indians a...

Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 1881-1934

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Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929

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Ornithologist; curator of birds at the U.S. National Museum. From the description of ALS : Washington, D.C., to Thomas G. Gentry, 1876 Mar. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580979 Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) was an ornithologist who collected bird specimens in Costa Rica in 1908. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_721_pid_EACP718 American ornithologist. From the descripti...

Pillsbury, Arthur C. (Arthur Clarence)

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Arthur Pillsbury (1870-1946) was an American photographer, scientist, inventor, explorer, author, and lecturer. He was a pioneer in many areas of photography, including time-lapse, underwater, macro, micro, and x-ray. From the description of Arthur C. Pillsbury photographs and slides, circa 1890s-1960s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 123235446 Arthur Clarence Pillsbury (1870-1946) was a photographer and film maker based in Yosemite, California. He attended S...

Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

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C. Hart Merriam was a biologist who work for the Smithsonian Institution from 1910-1939. Merriam was born December 5, 1855 in New York City. His childhood was spent in Locust Grove, Lewis County, New York. Merriam’s father introduced him to Prof. Spencer Baird who attached the seventeen year old Merriam to a government expedition, the Hayden Survey. He spent a summer collecting birds and eggs in the Yellowstone region. That year, he attended college, first at the Pingry Military School in Elizab...

Keen, Dora, 1871-

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One of the world's first female mountaineers, Dora Keen (born 1871), defied social norms of the day by taking up mountain climbing and traveling and becoming the first person to climb the peak of Mount Blackburn, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains range, Alaska. Keen's 1911 expedition to Mount Blackburn was a groundbreaking trip in several ways; it was the first expedition to use dogs on a mountain, the first to succeed without Swiss guides, the first to camp in snow caves, and the first...

Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909

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Harriman was a wealthy businessman with an interest in trotting horses. He gained control of the Historic Track in Goshen, N.Y. in the 1890s and ran amateur races there. From the description of Papers, 1890-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523846 ...

Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899

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The expedition was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Photograph, [ca. 1899]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532497 The Expedition was financed by Edward Henry Harriman as a combination pleasure cruise and scientific expedition from May to August 1899. From the description of Arctic field photographs, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517798 Originally proposed as a hunting expedition, Edward Harriman tr...

Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918

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William Morris Davis (1850-1934) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography." Grove Karl Gilbert, also known as G.K. Gilbert, was an American geologist. In 1871 he joined George M. Wheeler's geographical survey as its first geologist. He then joined the Powell Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region in 1874, becoming Powell's primary assistant, and stayed with the survey until 1879. From the description of Let...

Devereux, W. B.

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Cole, Leon J. (Leon Jacob), 1877-1948

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Leon Jacob Cole was a botanist who collected in Alaska, Bermudas, Mexico, Tortugas, and Aleutian Islands. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_264_pid_EACP261 ...

Coe, Wesley R. (Wesley Roswell), 1869-1960

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Averell, William H.

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