File:Amherst Glacier, left, and Crescent Glacier, right, on the northwestern arm of Prince William Sound called Port Wells, Alaska (HARRIMAN 106).jpg

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English: Amherst Glacier, left, and Crescent Glacier, right, on the northwestern arm of Prince William Sound called Port Wells, Alaska, June 26, 1899.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Clinton Hart Merriam  (1855–1942)  wikidata:Q721433
 
Clinton Hart Merriam
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Merriam; Clinton H. Merriam; C. Hart Merriam
Description American anthropologist, ornithologist, zoologist, entomologist and botanist
Date of birth/death 5 December 1855 Edit this at Wikidata 19 March 1942 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York City Berkeley
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creator QS:P170,Q721433
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English: Amherst Glacier, left, and Crescent Glacier, right, on the northwestern arm of Prince William Sound called Port Wells, Alaska, June 26, 1899.
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English: From album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May - August, 1899. Volume 1, New York to Cook Inlet, leaf 104.

Amherst Glacier was named by the Harriman Alaska Expedition for Amherst College, Massachusetts.

Caption on image: Amherst Glacier--Port Wells

Photograph taken by Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Glaciers--Alaska--Prince William Sound; Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Amherst Glacier (Alaska); Crescent Glacier (Alaska); Port Wells (Alaska); Prince William Sound (Alaska); Sounds (Geomorphology)--Alaska
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English: United States--Alaska--Prince William Sound--Port Wells--Amherst Glacier
Date Taken on 29 June 1899
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English: silver gelatin, b&w
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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