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- Plover Bay Eskimos, 1899
- Edward S. Curtis
- Albumen print
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection
- Image No. RU7243_Box1_F6_Harriman30
This image is part of a series of photographs taken by various members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, which was cosponsored by Edward Henry Harriman, president of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Washington Academy of Sciences. Originally conceived by Harriman as a big-game hunt, the enterprise was transformed into a scientific expedition upon the advice of Clinton Hart Merriman, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey.
