A wall of crevassed ice rises from dark water, its face jagged and streaked with dirt. A shadowed opening sits near the center of the glacier front, and the water below fills the foreground. Taku Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Taku River valley near Juneau, Alaska. In the early 20th century, steamship excursions brought visitors and photographers to southeast Alaska's glacier fronts, and such views circulated widely as postcards.
Sepia-toned real photo print with white caption lettering exposed onto the negative; handwritten '17' in the upper left corner; small white spot/emulsion loss at lower right; no white border.
No postmark. Divided-back real-photo card with 'WACO REAL PHOTO' stamp box; publisher imprint Wesley Andrews, Inc., Publishers, Baker, Oregon. Pencil dealer/collector mark 'RML3' over '3-' at top right; small brown stain left of center; no stamp, no address, no message.
Cite this card
Taku Glacier ice face, Alaska, circa 1915, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/taku-glacier-ice-face-alaska-circa-1915. Accessed November 2, 2026.
