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Altsch Glacier - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Altsch Glacier - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Two men and two women seated on rocks near glacier. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 35, lower right.

The Vernal and Nevada Fall, f[rom] Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

The Vernal and Nevada Fall, f[rom] Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Mar...

No. 1155. On mount: "Watkins' Pacific Coast." The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whit... More

[Monte Rosa, Lyskamm, with Gorner Glacier, Valais, Alps of, Switzerland]

[Monte Rosa, Lyskamm, with Gorner Glacier, Valais, Alps of, Switzerlan...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1474". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[Passhohe, Schwarenbach, Altels and Rinderhorn, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland]

[Passhohe, Schwarenbach, Altels and Rinderhorn, Bernese Oberland, Swit...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "17580". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[Eggishorn, Grand Aletsch Glacier, with Aletschhorn, Valais, Alps of, Switzerland]

[Eggishorn, Grand Aletsch Glacier, with Aletschhorn, Valais, Alps of, ...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1478". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[Blue grotto, Capri Island, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

[Blue grotto, Capri Island, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1871". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[Monte Rosa and Hotel Schwarzsee, Valais, Alps of, Switzerland]

[Monte Rosa and Hotel Schwarzsee, Valais, Alps of, Switzerland]

Print no. "1466". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[Ortler Territory, Madritschjoch, with Konigs-, Kreuz-, and Suldenspitzen, Tyrol, Austro-Hungary]

[Ortler Territory, Madritschjoch, with Konigs-, Kreuz-, and Suldenspit...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1658". Forms part of: Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Photochrom pri... More

[The Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Breithorn, etc., Valais, Alps of, Switzerland]

[The Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Breithorn, etc., Valais, Alps of, ...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1475". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

Rock of Gibraltar from the Spanish Bay

Rock of Gibraltar from the Spanish Bay

Two people with boat at shoreline in foreground. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 966.

Edward S. Curtis - Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis.

Edward S. Curtis - Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis.

Two native Alaskan people in boat. 61316 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X225a.

Cordova Alaska - Child's Glacier - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Cordova Alaska - Child's Glacier - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Cordova Alaska - Child's Glacier - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Cordova Alaska - Child's Glacier - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Alaska scenery - Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Alaska scenery - Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter colle...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Yukon River: Anchor ice rising, Alaska

Yukon River: Anchor ice rising, Alaska

Copyright by C.L. Andrews. Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Glacier National Park, Mountain. Great vertical wall of the north face of Goathaunt Mountain, 1,200 ft. high]

[Glacier National Park, Mountain. Great vertical wall of the north fac...

Photo includes pointer directing viewer to location on rock face. No. 2416. National Photo Company Collection.

Glacier National Park. On the Continental Divide. Kipps Summit

Glacier National Park. On the Continental Divide. Kipps Summit

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 2415. Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Colorado

Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More

Climbers at the Ouray Ice Park, a human-made ice climbing venue in a natural gorge within walking distance of the city of Ouray, Colorado. It is home to more than 200 named ice and mixed climbs. The park, which is free to all who use it, has become one of the premier ice climbing venues in the world over its more than two decades of operation

Climbers at the Ouray Ice Park, a human-made ice climbing venue in a n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Nisqually Glacier Bridge, Spanning Nisqually River at Nisqually Road, Longmire, Pierce County, WA

Nisqually Glacier Bridge, Spanning Nisqually River at Nisqually Road, ...

Significance: The first bridge on the site was distinguished for its construction at the snout of the Nisqually Glacier; this made the Nisqually Road "the first road in America to reach a glacier." However, th... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, West Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, West Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier ...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-B Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

[People on snow-covered ice at the base of the frozen American Falls, Niagara Falls, New York]

[People on snow-covered ice at the base of the frozen American Falls, ...

3123-02 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1883 by George Barker. Photographer's label on back.

Kartoumski Alps from the crest of the White Berel Mts.

Kartoumski Alps from the crest of the White Berel Mts.

The Katun Pillars, the highest peaks of the Russian Altai Mountains, sometimes called the Katun Alps, the source of the Katun River. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080)... More

Taku Glacier, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Taku Glacier, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Highway 41, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Hi...

Significance: The Chinquapin Service Station and Lunchroom was built in 1933 as part of an overall redesign of the Wawona/Glacier Point Road - State Highway 41 intersection. It is one of four buildings which c... More

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Highway 41, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Hi...

Significance: The Chinquapin Service Station and Lunchroom was built in 1933 as part of an overall redesign of the Wawona/Glacier Point Road - State Highway 41 intersection. It is one of four buildings which c... More

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Highway 41, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Hi...

Significance: The Chinquapin Service Station and Lunchroom was built in 1933 as part of an overall redesign of the Wawona/Glacier Point Road - State Highway 41 intersection. It is one of four buildings which c... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, East Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, East Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier ...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-A Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Charlie Yale Work Cabin, Glacier River near Nolan, Bettles, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK

Charlie Yale Work Cabin, Glacier River near Nolan, Bettles, Yukon-Koyu...

Survey number: HABS AK-20-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier...

Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Baring Creek Bridge, Spanning Baring Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Baring Creek Bridge, Spanning Baring Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, W...

Significance: The Baring Creek Bridge is one of approximately seventeen prominent masonry and concrete structures on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The 51-mile stretch of scenic road is signif... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glac...

Significance: The dam was an earthen dam/wooden pipe water collection/distribution system that serviced locomotives for the Great Northern Railroad. Survey number: HAER MT-88 Building/structure dates: 1902 In... More

Glacier Ranger Station, Washington State Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Glacier Ranger Station, Washington State Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom C...

Significance: The Glacier Ranger Station is an element of a National Register thematic group entitled "USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in the States of Oregon and Washington, Built by the Civilian ... More

Glacier Ranger Station, Washington State Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Glacier Ranger Station, Washington State Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom C...

Significance: The Glacier Ranger Station is an element of a National Register thematic group entitled "USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in the States of Oregon and Washington, Built by the Civilian ... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-C Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-C Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Glacier Point Road, Between Chinquapin Flat & Glacier Point, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA

Glacier Point Road, Between Chinquapin Flat & Glacier Point, Yosemite ...

Significance: The Glacier Point Road is a scenic drive providing access to Yosemite's most popular overlook. The road was opened as a toll wagon road in the 1870s, and reconstructed as a modern highway in the ... More

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, CO

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More

Mt. Blanc from Le Jardin - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Mt. Blanc from Le Jardin - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Five men walking on glacier. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 33, lower right.

Source of the Arveyron, foot of Mer de Glace

Source of the Arveyron, foot of Mer de Glace

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 31, lower right.

From the top of Vernal Falls, Glacier's Point, 3705 ft. high, in the distance

From the top of Vernal Falls, Glacier's Point, 3705 ft. high, in the d...

Part of series: Glories of the Yosemite, California. No. 55. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixt... More

Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa co., Cal.

Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa co., Cal.

Original negative number: 3084. Part of series: Watkins' New Series, [of Pacific Coast Views].

Ball Pass, Mt. Cook. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Ball Pass, Mt. Cook. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Title in: General-Photochrom-Katalog, 30. Ausgabe 1911. Photoglob-Abteilung der Vereinigten Kunstanstalten, A.G. Zürich München, 1911: "Neu-Seeland-New Zealand. Mount Cook. Ball Pass". Print no. "11584." Purch... More

[Aiguille du Goûter, Chamonix Valley, France]

[Aiguille du Goûter, Chamonix Valley, France]

Print no. "1312". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection.

Edward S. Curtis - [Icebergs, bay, and mountain in background, Alaska] / Curtis.

Edward S. Curtis - [Icebergs, bay, and mountain in background, Alaska]...

Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X216. Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nearly a mile straight down and only a step, Yosemite from Glacier Point, Cal.

Nearly a mile straight down and only a step, Yosemite from Glacier Poi...

Woman standing at edge of cliff. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; National parks; California Y-; Shelf.

[Glacier National Park, Montana]

[Glacier National Park, Montana]

Rocky ridge partially covered with snow and glaciers. No. 2421. National Photo Company Collection.

[Glacier National Park, Montana. Cliffs on northeast side of Lake Avalanche, East End Mountain]

[Glacier National Park, Montana. Cliffs on northeast side of Lake Aval...

No. 2418. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a fence in the snow, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A black and white photo of a fence in the snow, New Hamshire. Farm Sec...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a glacier, arctic landscape, mountains landscape, ice, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Snyder Creek Culvert, Spanning Snyder Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Snyder Creek Culvert, Spanning Snyder Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, ...

Significance: The Snyder Creek Culvert is one of approximately seventeen prominent masonry and concrete structures on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The 51-mile stretch of scenic road is signi... More

Pederson Lagoon and Glacier, Seward, Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

Pederson Lagoon and Glacier, Seward, Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

Survey number: HALS AK-4 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Aerial view of glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, West Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, West Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier ...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-B Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

[Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, in 1903]

[Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, C...

H82467 U.S. Copyright Office. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York ... More

Charlie Yale Cabins, Glacier River near Nolan, Bettles, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK

Charlie Yale Cabins, Glacier River near Nolan, Bettles, Yukon-Koyukuk ...

Significance: The ten year home of hermit prospector Chalie Yale, this cabin site is an accessible, in-park display of early isolated mining. Uses as shelter and way-station tie the site to latter-day mining. ... More

Kartoumski Alps from the crest of the White Berel Mts.

Kartoumski Alps from the crest of the White Berel Mts.

The Katun Pillars, the highest peaks of the Russian Altai Mountains, sometimes called the Katun Alps, the source of the Katun River. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080)... More

Austin Pass Warming Hut, Washington Highway 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Austin Pass Warming Hut, Washington Highway 542, Glacier, Whatcom Coun...

Significance: The Austin Pass Warming Hut is associated with Federal efforts to promote the welfare of the American people, as a result of its construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Constructed... More

Austin Pass Warming Hut, Washington Highway 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Austin Pass Warming Hut, Washington Highway 542, Glacier, Whatcom Coun...

Significance: The Austin Pass Warming Hut is associated with Federal efforts to promote the welfare of the American people, as a result of its construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Constructed... More

Logging Creek Ranger Station, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Logging Creek Ranger Station, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: It was built by the U.S. Forest Service in 1908. With the establishment of Glacier National Park in 1910, the cabin became part of the park's system of back country ranger stations. Before 1930 th... More

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Highway 41, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room, Glacier Point Road & State Hi...

Significance: The Chinquapin Service Station and Lunchroom was built in 1933 as part of an overall redesign of the Wawona/Glacier Point Road - State Highway 41 intersection. It is one of four buildings which c... More

West Side Tunnel, On Going-to-the-Sun Road Northeast of West Glacier Entrance, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

West Side Tunnel, On Going-to-the-Sun Road Northeast of West Glacier E...

Significance: The West Side Tunnel is one of approximately seventeen prominent masonry and concrete structures on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The 51-mile stretch of scenic road is significa... More

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier...

Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in... More

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier...

Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in... More

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT

St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier...

Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in... More

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Plant, Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County...

Significance: With a generating capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, the Nooksack plant is the second oldest operating hydroelectric facility in western Washington (only the Snoqualmie Falls plant (1899) is earlier t... More

Baring Creek Bridge, Spanning Baring Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Baring Creek Bridge, Spanning Baring Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, W...

Significance: The Baring Creek Bridge is one of approximately seventeen prominent masonry and concrete structures on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The 51-mile stretch of scenic road is signif... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glac...

Significance: The dam was an earthen dam/wooden pipe water collection/distribution system that serviced locomotives for the Great Northern Railroad. Survey number: HAER MT-88 Building/structure dates: 1902 In... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glac...

Significance: The dam was an earthen dam/wooden pipe water collection/distribution system that serviced locomotives for the Great Northern Railroad. Survey number: HAER MT-88 Building/structure dates: 1902 In... More

Glacier Park Villas, Edna Sears Graham Cabin, South of Lake McDonald Lodge on Lake Mcdonald Lodge Loop Road, Lake McDonald, Flathead County, MT

Glacier Park Villas, Edna Sears Graham Cabin, South of Lake McDonald L...

Significance: The Graham Cabin is a representative example of recreational camp development on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. All recreational camp on the lake evolved form patented homesteads. Homeste... More

Glacier Ranger Station, Washington State Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom County, WA

Glacier Ranger Station, Washington State Route 542, Glacier, Whatcom C...

Significance: The Glacier Ranger Station is an element of a National Register thematic group entitled "USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in the States of Oregon and Washington, Built by the Civilian ... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-C Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

Significance: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a 51-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in Glacier National Park. The road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, in that... More

Glacier Point Road, Between Chinquapin Flat & Glacier Point, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA

Glacier Point Road, Between Chinquapin Flat & Glacier Point, Yosemite ...

Significance: The Glacier Point Road is a scenic drive providing access to Yosemite's most popular overlook. The road was opened as a toll wagon road in the 1870s, and reconstructed as a modern highway in the ... More

Strahleck Pass. Grindelwald to Grimsell

Strahleck Pass. Grindelwald to Grimsell

Four men on glacier. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 42, lower left.

Summit of Mt. Rosa - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Summit of Mt. Rosa - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 34, upper left.

Ascension, Mont Blanc - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Ascension, Mont Blanc - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Four men on glacier. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p.33, upper left.

Morteratsch Glacier from the main road

Morteratsch Glacier from the main road

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 45, upper left.

Glacier des Bois, near Le Chapeau

Glacier des Bois, near Le Chapeau

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 32, lower left.

Zermatt. Gorner Glacier--Breithorn

Zermatt. Gorner Glacier--Breithorn

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 34, lower left.

[The Mer de Glace, Aiguille du Geant and Les Grandes Jorasses, Chamonix Valley, France]

[The Mer de Glace, Aiguille du Geant and Les Grandes Jorasses, Chamoni...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1311". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

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