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Title: Photograph Album of the Cruise of the Revenue Cutter "Corwin" in Alaska
Alternative Title: Cruise of the Revenue Cutter "Corwin" 1881.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1881
1882
1883
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: An album of 36 photographs made during the Arctic voyage of the USRC Thomas Corwin in 1881, and possibly 1883. Views include Inuit villages, homes and inhabitants in Alaska (Fort Wrangell, Sitka, St. Michael, and King's Island) and coastal Siberia; harbors and scenery; a Greek church interior; fur traders and seal hunting; and portraits taken aboard ship.
The album's cover is embossed "1883," but the manuscript title page indicates the photographs are from 1881. Title created by cataloguer. Alt title from manuscript title page.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: photCL 97
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7861
Language: English
Subject: Corwin (Ship)
Indians of North America--Alaska
Inuit
Arctic peoples
Fur traders--Alaska--19th century
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration
Whaling--Alaska
Alaska--Description and travel
Photographs. (aat)
Photograph albums. (aat)
Group portraits. (aat)
Place: Alaska.
Siberia (Russia)
Arctic Ocean.
Bering Sea.
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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