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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Alaska) |
| Author: |
Hubbard, Bernard & Edgar R. Levin |
| Title: |
Archive of letters, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera relating to Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S.J., the “Glacier Priest” of Alaska, and to Edgar R. Levin, his partner on many expeditions |
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Various places |
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| Date: |
c.1930s-1950s |
| Item # : |
190808 |
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387 |
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2 |
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| Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography |
| Sale Date |
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09/11/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 600 |
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| Description: |
| Sizable and significant archive relating to Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S.J. (1888-1962), head of the University of Santa Clara Geology Department, who from 1926 until nearly the time of his death made annual trips to Alaska, often accompanied by students and explorers of kindred spirit, investigating the glaciers, volcanoes, natives, natural wonders, and economic and social climate. When not in Alaska, he was an indefatigable lecturer, touring the nation, presenting talks, slide shows, and movies about the frozen north and its people. He was dubbed “The Glacier Priest,” and brought Alaska into the consciousness of countless denizens of the lower 48. Many of the letters and other items in the archive are from or to Edgar R. Levin, who accompanied Hubbard on several trips to Alaska during the 1930’s, serving as field manager for the expeditions. The archive includes, but is not limited to: Folder of approx. 35 letters to Ed Levin from various friends and associates, both typed and handwritten, including one from R.B. Gray in Homer, Alaska, describing an earthquake, “I don’t believe it was a steam explosion, but perhaps the collapse of strata. I am under the impression that the Alaska Peninsula is slowly sinking, and possibly the Kenai, parts of it, with it…” * 5 letters written by Ed Levin while on an expedition to Alaska, but not mailed. One of them, on letterhead of Father Hubbard’s Arctic Expedition, 1937-1938, reads in part, “…We were held up in Nome waiting for the ice to break in the Bering Straits before we could continue on to King Island where we were to build our base camp… We will live with a tribe of 168 Eskimos. We then made a tour of the Arctic Ocean and were stuck in the Arctic ice pack for days at Icy Cape before leads opened so we could go up north…” * Brochures, letters and other items relating to Father Hubbard’s lectures, including Cliff Dwellers of the Far North; Climbing to the Spirit’s Home; Alaska with Father Hubbard; etc. * Folder of items relating to the military in Alaska during World War II, including letters, newspaper clippings, etc., including Levin volunteering to assist the military. * Folder of material relating to various business dealings of Hubbard and Levin with companies involve in lectures and presentations about Alaska. * Plus various other items, the whole taking up an entire banker’s box. |
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| Condition: |
| Generally very good condition. |
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