ARC 1176.199, Cemetery at Taku

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Record ID: 
220335
Accession number: 
ARC 1176.199
Photographer: 
Edward S. Curtis
Title: 
Cemetery at Taku
Summary: 

View of two wooden tombs, one topped with a Russian cross, with trees in the background.

Created: 
ca. 1899
Printed/Manufactured: 
United States, ca. 1905-1910
Description: 
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, black and white ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Inscriptions/Markings: 
Inscription on tape along side "Indian graves at Taku."
Notes: 

Title supplied by cataloger.
Image also available in the Library of Congress online catalog (viewed May 2021): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 4841-D, Library of Congress number 2004672327; dated ©1899, title: [Russian cemetery, Alaska. Wooden tombs].
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).

Bibliography: 
NAA MS 2010-28 National Anthropological Archives, Series 9.1, Edward Curtis negative log books, volume 1, page 44 ("Start Harriman Expedition 1898?"), negative number x 192: Indian graves at Taku.
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