Looking up the Kobuk River. Seward Peninsula, Alaska. circa 1901.
Dates
Date Taken
1901
Summary
Album caption: Looking up the first little gorge on the Kobuk River, 3/4 miles below Chekayakaka Creek. Seward Peninsula, Alaska. No index card available. General collection album caption: USGS party on the Kobuk R. north of the Arctic Circle - 1901. Party has just made the portage from the Koyukuk R. and is enroute down tthe Kobuk to the Arctic Ocean. Picture taken at a point survey below one of the rapids, passage of which is vividly described by Story in account of his expedition.
Summary
Album caption: Looking up the first little gorge on the Kobuk River, 3/4 miles below Chekayakaka Creek. Seward Peninsula, Alaska.
No index card available.
General collection album caption: USGS party on the Kobuk R. north of the Arctic Circle - 1901. Party has just made the portage from the Koyukuk R. and is enroute down tthe Kobuk to the Arctic Ocean. Picture taken at a point survey below one of the rapids, passage of which is vividly described by Story in account of his expedition.
Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.
mwc00218.jpg
5.59 MB
image/jpeg
mwc00218.tif
17.49 MB
image/geotiff
Material Request Instructions
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Mendenhall, W.C. Collection and in the General collection book 3 subject album.
Rights
This USGS product is considered to be in the U.S. public domain. For further information on the USGS Information Policies and Instructions, refer to the Copyrights and Credits section on this web page: http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html