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440.01 North and Central America > Improving content on US states
We are seeking to extend the information and examples we can share on this American state.
- The introduction of photography - The earliest known photographs of this state/territory and who was involved.
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Documentary projects
440.02 North and Central America > Frank Jay Haynes: Alaska Views (ca. 1891)
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An album of 24 vintage albumen prints from the series "Alaska Views" taken by the noted Western photographer F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921) circa 1891.[1]
440.03 North and Central America > Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
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In 1899 railroad trycoon Edward Harriman financed a two month scientific expedition to Alaska.[2] For health reasons he planned the trip but never one to do things in a small way he took with him a remarkable group of botanists, biologists, zoologists, geologists, geographers, experts on the Arctic, writers, artists and last but not least photographers. The photographer included was Edward Sheriff Curtis and his assistant D. J. Inverarity.[3] During the expedition Curtis established a friendship with George Bird Grinnell who was an expert in Native American Culture and this changed his future career. Curtis went on to becoming the driving force behind The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska (1907-1926) the most significant photographic work on Native Americans.[4][5]
Gold Rush
440.04 North and Central America > Alaskan Gold Rush (1896-1899)
  
Footnotes
- Λ Each view is mounted on boudoir-size card (5.25 x 8.5 inches) with reverse imprint for "Alaska Views ... Photographed and Published by F. Jay Hayes & Bro., Official Photographers N.P.R.R. 392 Jackson St., Cor. 6th, St. Paul, Minn. Yellowstone Park and Northern Pacific Views." along with a list of views in the series. The print size is 5 x 8.25 inches (13 x 21 cm).
- Λ W.H. Goetzmann & K. Sloan, 1982, Looking Far North: The Harriman expedition to Alaska, 1899, (New York: The Viking Press)
- Λ An album compiled by George F. Nelson, 1899, Alaska, 1899: The Harriman Alaska Expedition, Chronicles and Souvenirs - May to August 1899 with photographs by Edward S.Curtis, Edward H. Harriman and others is included and discussed in - Verna Posever Curtis, 2011, Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, (Aperture / Library of Congress), pp. 16-27
- Λ Edward S. Curtis, 1907-1926, The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, (MA: The University Press, 1907-09 & The Plimpton Press, 1911-26)
- Λ The bibliography on Edward S. Curtis is considerable. For his unpublished memoir -
Edward S. Curtis, n.d., As it Was [Unpublished memoir, University of Washington Library, Special Collections]
For publications by Curtis - Edward S. Curtis, 1906, ‘Vanishing Indian Types: The Tribes of the Northwest Plains‘, Scribner's Magazine, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 657-671; Edward S. Curtis, 1906, ‘Vanishing Indian Types: The Tribes of the Southwest‘, Scribner's Magazine, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 513-529; Edward S. Curtis, 1907-1926, The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, (MA: The University Press, 1907-09 & The Plimpton Press, 1911-26); Edward S. Curtis, 1909, ‘Village Tribes of the Desert Land‘, Scribner's Magazine, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 274-287; Edward S. Curtis, 1914, Indian Days of the Long Ago, (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company); Edward S. Curtis, 1915, In the Land of the Head-Hunters, (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company); Edward S. Curtis, 1992, Native Nations: First Americans as Seen by Edward Curtis, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company); Edward S. Curtis, 1997, The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolio, (New York: Köln: Taschen)
There are innumerable other reprints and studies on Curtis.
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General reading
Kan, Sergei, 2013, A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska, (University of Oklahoma Press) isbn-10: 0806142901 isbn-13: 978-0806142906 [Δ]
Mautz, Carl, 1997, Biographies of Western Photographers. A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West, (Nevada City: Carl Mautz Publishing) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Vittorio Sella
Cremoncini, Roberta; Hare, Harry & Adams, Christopher (eds.), 2010, Frozen in Time: The Mountain Photography of Vittorio Sella, (Gangemi Editore) isbn-10: 8849214790 isbn-13: 978-8849214796 [Δ]
Sella, Vittorio et. al., 1999, Summit : Vittorio Sella - Mountaineer and Photographer - The Years 1879-1909, (Aperture) isbn-10: 0893818089 isbn-13: 978-0893818081 [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
Resources
Capturing Alaska’s Image: Pre-Statehood Alaskan Photographers by Candy Waugaman
http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org ...
"Capturing Alaska's Image" originally appeared in Alaska History, Vol. 17, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Fall 2002. Corrections, clarifications, and information on additional candidates for this list or other repositories with substantial collections of pre-Statehood Alaska photographers should be sent to Alaska History at ahs@alaska.net.
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