Alfred Hulse Brooks photographs and papers 1892-1955 1898-1924

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Alfred Hulse Brooks photographs and papers 1892-1955 1898-1924

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Photographs and papers created and collected by Alfred Hulse Brooks and then probably maintained by Philip Sidney Smith, his successor as Geologist in Charge of the Division of Alaskan Mineral Resources of the United States Geological Survey. The collection provides visual documentation of the work of the United States Geological Survey in Alaska. Most of the photographs were made by Brooks and other employees of the agency. Some images document joint surveys made with the Geological Survey of Canada. The photographs depict mining operations, water and rail transportation, frontier communities, and Native American villages. Locations in Alaska well represented in the collection include Fairbanks, Juneau, Kennecott, Ketchikan, Skagway, Valdez, and Wrangell, as well as sites along the rivers, including the Copper River, Susitna River, and Tanana River. Numerous images throughout the collection also document sites in Canada, particularly in British Columbia. Photographs not created by the United States Geological Survey or its employees consist chiefly of images created by commercial photographers, corporate bodies, and government agencies in Alaska, collected principally by Brooks to supplement those created by him and his subordinates. Significant components include photographs related to the Cook Inlet Exploration Expedition under the command of Captain Edwin Forbes Glenn (1857-1926) in south-central Alaska in 1898; trips made by Robert Steed Dunn (1877-1955) in Alaska, 1900-1908; and the first successful ascent of the eastern peak of Mount Blackburn (later called Mount Kennedy) made by Dora Keen in May 1912.

6.17 linear feet (13 boxes)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6348963

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Smith, Philip S. (Philip Sidney), 1877-1949

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Cook Inlet Exploring Expedition.

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Geological survey of Canada

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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...

Brooks, Alfred H. (Alfred Hulse), 1871-1924

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Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 18, 1871, died in Washington, D.C., November 22, 1924. American geologist and geographer who joined the U.S. Geological Survey for Alaska in 1898 and for whom the Brooks Mountain Range is named. Assuming full charge of the Alaska Survey in 1902 he devoted himself to it until his death, interrupted only by war service. From the description of Alfred Hulse Brooks papers, 1895-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42065007 ...

Geological survey (U.S.)

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...

Dunn, Robert, 1877-1955

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