View from a grade overloooking a watercourse from the mountains, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Item Overview

Title

View from a grade overloooking a watercourse from the mountains, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

August 17, 1946

Date

1946-08-17

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

An out-of-focus photograph overlooking the mountains and watercourse from the mountains as viewed from atop a grade. In the foreground, a rock formation stands along the left edge. Beyond it, streams flow through a plain that stretches into the distance where snow-covered mountains line the horizon. The landscape is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2160. Alaska Trip. Camp Eilsen [sic] Aug.17,1946. 1. Pioneer cabin at Igloo Creek Our bus driver 2. From the grade overlooking a watercourse from Mountains. 3. Summit of Sable Pass. 4. 3 caribou out on the wash. 5. Our road to Eilsen [sic]. Doc Beaver at left. [handwritten text:] X [end handwritten] 6. Doc Beaver photographs porcupine 7. Doc Beaver Mertie West and another passenger at Polychrome Pass

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Alaska--Denali National Park and Preserve

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Landscapes (Representations)
Streams--Alaska--Denali National Park and Preserve
Mountains--Alaska