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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
Copyright Date:
©1899
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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