John Muir traveled to Alaska on the Queen in 1896, and was there photographed by La Roche, the half-tone reproduction of the portrait laid-in with the album. The images include: early settlements, forts, missions and churches, mills, steamer boats, harbor scenes, mountain ranges, glaciers, lakes, rivers and their basins, falls, geysers and springs, group portraits of members of expedition, Indian brass band, Indian merchants, totems.