Boudoir-size albumen print by F. Jay Haynes, official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, titled “Chilkaht Peaks” and numbered 5425 in his Alaska Views series ca 1891. The image presents a sweeping view across calm coastal waters toward the towering snow-capped peaks of the Chilkat Range, their rugged slopes partially cloaked in forest. The sunlight glints off the water in the foreground, creating a shimmering path that draws the viewer’s eye toward the mountains in the distance.

The reverse bears the printed catalog of Haynes’s Alaska Views, situating this scene among his extensive photographic record of Alaskan landscapes, glaciers, and coastal settlements. The Chilkat Peaks are part of Southeast Alaska’s dramatic coastal ranges, an area historically associated with the Chilkat Tlingit people and known for its prominence in regional trade networks.

Haynes’s Alaska series was marketed to travelers on steamship excursions as both a souvenir and a visual record of their journey through the Inside Passage. His work blends aesthetic composition with documentary value, preserving a view of the Alaskan wilderness during the height of the late 19th-century tourism boom.