Detail View: Roger G. Barry Glacier Photographs Collection: Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska

Identifier: 
nsidc_glacierPhotos_AGS_1937_01.tif
Title: 
Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska
Creator: 
Unidentified photographer
Date: 
1937
Extent: 
1 photoprint; 19.7 x 24.8 cm (7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches)
Format: 
photographs
Format: 
gelatin silver prints
Description: 
Photograph number 01.
Description: 
Transcribed from item: The 1936/37 advance (surge). The Black Rapids Glacier: A phenomenon caused by pressure of unusual warm fall weather late 1936 and heavy snow winter 1937, and accelerated by an earthquake, this wall of ice - 2 miles wide and 300 feet high at face - has been moving out into an open valley south of Fairbanks, Alaska. Received by WDC-A from W.S. Cooper Dec. 1967. The glacier has been at a standstill for awhile now but scientists call it the phenomenon of the century.
Description: 
Source: American Geographical Society/World Data Center-A for Glaciology.
Glacier Name: 
Black Rapids Glacier
Glacier Latitude: 
63.45881
Glacier Longitude: 
-146.553
GLIMS Glacier ID: 
G213683E63392N
Coverage Spatial: 
Black Rapids Glacier (Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, North America) (glacier)
Subject: 
Glaciers--Alaska--Photographs
Type: 
StillImage
Language: 
English
RelationLink: 
NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection link: https://nsidc.org/data/g00472
RelationLink: 
Bibliographic number: b10245128
RelationLink: 
For more information about the finding aid visit the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections.
Citation: 
Unidentified photographer. 1937. Black Rapids Glacier: From the Glacier Photograph Collection. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Rights: 
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