Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2013.41.452
Accession#:
2013.41
Credit Line:
Donated by Albert Shaw.
Object Name:
Slide, Transparency
Title:
Riggs Glacier, Glacier Bay. August 19, 1968.
Place:
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Date:
August 19, 1968
Year Range from:
1968
Year Range to:
1968
Description:
A photographic slide in a small cardboard frame (off white with red rear text "Color Transparency" and front logo for Perfect Photo, Inc.). The frame is labeled "Riggs Glacier Glacier Bay 8—19—68" in handwriting. The image shows a wide swath of blue ocean water occupying the entirety of the foreground and the middling area. At the far side of the water, a mountainous shore stretches across the background, with a narrow beach at the water's edge. Some of the peaks are snowcapped, and at the center, a narrow valley has been cut by a glacier through the wall of mountains. The glacier is visible, very narrow at the mouth of the water, but growing wider as it curves back into the mountains. The number "8" is printed in ink on the frame at the lower right, and the text "AUG68" is etched on the lower edge, possibly signifying the date of development.
People:
Shaw, Albert
Scheibe, Margaret Shaw
Shaw, Katherine
Search Terms:
Photography
Slide
Water
Seascape
Glacier Bay
Mountains
Riggs Glacier
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