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John E. Thwaites photographs, 1905-1931
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940
- Title
- John E. Thwaites photographs
- Dates
- 1905-1931 (inclusive)19051931
- Quantity
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1300 photographic prints
7 negatives : glass
1292 negatives : nitrate - Collection Number
- PH0247
- Summary
- Photographs of Alaska including scenes from cities and localities, landscape features, dogs and dog teams, steamships and shipwrecks, and Alaska industries, 1905-1931
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is CLOSED for processing ; please use the digital version of the collection. Contact the Visual Materials Curator for details.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
John Edward Thwaites, son of sailor and shipwright George Thwaites, was born in Eastwood, Ontario, Canada in 1863. About 1871, the family migrated to northern Michigan in search of better farm lands. As a young man he worked the family farm and attended a local college. In 1885 he married a local girl named Carrie Warne. The pair became employed in Michigan as public school teachers. Poor health eventually led Thwaites to settle in the warmer climates of Bowling Green, Florida. Unfortunately, his pursuit of a teaching career and investment in a drugstore did not serve to establish a very good livelihood for Thwaites. By good fortune, the Florida Southern Railroad had a depot in the town of Bowling Green and it was through his contact with them that he decided to apply for a position as a federal Railway Mail Service clerk in 1895, a job that would ultimately lead him far north to Alaska. In 1901 he was transferred to the Rocky Mountain Division of the Great Northern Railway where he was stationed in Spokane, Washington. Working for the railroad was, however, dangerous work. Due to his unfortunate involvement in numerous train wrecks and derailments, he decided to apply for a position in Alaska. He was assigned the "ship service" mail route from Valdez to Unalaska in 1905, serving mainly on the Northwestern Steamship Company's steamer the S.S. Dora. His office officially was designated as the "mail closet", a stateroom on the port side of the boat. It was here that he conducted the business of delivering the mail in monthly visits to the people of Southwestern Alaska.
Thwaites was an amateur photographer with no formal schooling in the art or technique of photography. His camera was a Kodak 3-A Special, a popular camera for producing postcards. Using this minimal equipment, he enthusiastically captured scenes in the Aleutian Islands, the Unga Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Prince William Sound and Bristol Bay. Salmon packing plants, codfish stations, Aleutian natives, Eskimos, maritime accidents, and small coastal towns and the details of Alaska life were often the subjects of his camera.
Alaska is known for its extreme weather conditions. Storms and foul weather often led to shipwrecks and maritime disasters in coastal waters. On January 5, 1910, Thwaites was aboard the S. S. Farallon, a wooden steam schooner, when it was wrecked at Illiamna Bay, Cooks Inlet. He and thirty others survived for one month on the beach by retrieving supplies from the grounded ship and scavenging the brush for fuel. His photographs document the harsh conditions of the shipwrecked passengers providing a chilly portrait of their primitive survival conditions. They were rescued eventually by the S.S. Victoria. He also documented the grounding of the Mariposa (which he was aboard) on June 8, 1915, when it struck a rock in the Fitz Hugh Sound, British Columbia stranding 95 passengers on the shore. Thwaites's own vessel, the Dora, was often damaged throughout its career. A standing joke among the locals was that the ship had somehow managed to hit every rock between Seattle and Seward.
Thwaites was transferred to the Seward-Seattle mail route in 1914. He began operating his photographic business out of his home in Seward, making at least two runs by dogsled to deliver the mail to the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. He remarried in 1915 and in 1919 he retired from the Mail Service and opened a small photography and curio shop on Dock Street in Ketchikan, where he and his wife specialized in hand coloring photographs. He moved his business to the Ingersoll Hotel in Ketchikan in 1924. He eventually sold his business to his assistant in 1932 and moved with his wife to Mercer Island, Washington, where he died in 1940.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Collection consists of photographs (primarily nitrate negatives) taken in Alaska by John E. Thwaites, 1905-1931. Images includes scenes from cities and localities especially: Anchorage, Cordova, Dutch Harbor, Fairbanks, Juneau, Kasaan, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Metlakatla, Nushagak, Sitka, Skagway, Unalaska, Unga, and Valdez; landscape features such as rivers, lakes, mountains, volcanoes, glaciers, icebergs; dogs and dog teams; copper and goldmining; salmon, fishing activities, fishing boats and canneries; animals and birds of Alaska; hunting; churches; schools; and steamships and shipwrecks.
This collection includes his images of: the aftermath of Aleutian chain volcanic eruptions; maritime disasters including the famous Farallon shipwreck in 1910; Aleutian Natives and Eskimos, including an Aglegmiut shaman in costume depicting what is believed to be the only images of an actual shaman wearing these ceremonial costumes; Alaska industries including fox farming, whaling, codfish salteries, copper mining; glaciers and scenic wonders; and small towns and daily life encountered en route.
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
List arranged alphabetically by subject (in capital letters):
Thwaites 0022: Steamship "S.S. ADMIRAL EVANS" in Alaska. (neg 4087)
Thwaites 0079: Steamship "ADMIRAL Rogers" in Alaskan waters. (neg
Thwaites 0251: Steamship "ADMIRAL WATSON" at Cordova, Alaska. (neg 4063A)
Thwaites 0256: AKUTAN village. (Neg 3888C)
Thwaites 0004: Steamship "ALAMEDA". Deck scene, children at play. (Neg 1730)
Thwaites 0005: Steamship "ALAMEDA". Alaska. (Neg 6029)
Thwaites 0240: Bit of unnamed ALASKA coast. (neg 5534)
Thwaites 0366: Early Spring. ALASKA Coast. (neg 943)
Thwaites 0006: Unidentified steamship. Gulls on rope at bow of ship.
Thwaites 0007: Steamship "S.S. ALEUTIAN" in Alaskan waters. 1930 (neg 5972)
Thwaites 0008: Steamship "S.S. Princess ALICE" in Alaska. (neg 5426)
Thwaites 0388: Steamship "Princess ALICE".
Thwaites 0050: Schooner "ALLEN A." disabled at Kodiak, Alaska. (Negs 40, 4430)
Thwaites 0397: AMUNDSEN
Thwaites 0253: ANCHORAGE scene. (Negs. 2411, 2415, 4216, 4217, 4247, 4305, 4407)
Thwaites 0118: ANIMALS. Bear cub sitting atop a tree stump. Thwaites 0119: ANIMALS. Bears in the Alaskan woods. 1930.
Thwaites 0120: ANIMALS. Three hunters standing with two dead bears. 1931?
Thwaites 0121: ANIMALS. Skins of 12 brown bears shot near Sand Point, Alaska by two hunters. (neg 594) Thwaites 0122: ANIMALS. Man standing by a dead bear.
Thwaites 0123: ANIMALS. Bear cub by a log cabin. 1931. (Neg 5836)
Thwaites 0125: ANIMALS. Two bear cubs fighting.
Thwaites 0124: ANIMALS. A Dog with a bear cub.
Thwaites 0130: ANIMALS. Bear skin.
Thwaites 0129: ANIMALS. Bear cub in a tree.
Thwaites 0128: ANIMALS. Bear cubs. (neg 5810)
Thwaites 0127: ANIMALS. Close pictures of a single bear. 1931. (neg 5854, 5856)
Thwaites 0126: ANIMALS. Bears?
Thwaites 0110: ANIMALS. Part of the government herd of cattle at Kodiak, Alaska. (neg 355, 387, 1281)
Thwaites 0206: ANIMALS. Dog with loaf of bread. (neg 1510A)
Thwaites 0207: ANIMALS. Finish of a 900 mile trip, alone on skiis. This man traveled from the Kuskokwim to Seward alone with one dog pulling him along on skiis. (neg 1409)
Thwaites 0101: ANIMALS. Wild deer rescued from Alaskan waters. (neg 1811)
Thwaites 0099: ANIMALS. Wild deer in Alaska.
Thwaites 0098: ANIMALS. Hunters posed with dead deer. Thwaites 0100: ANIMALS. A fawn.
Thwaites 0112: ANIMALS. Fox (glass neg)
Thwaites 0113: ANIMALS. Fox?
Thwaites 0117: ANIMALS. Several foxes in a boat with a man. (neg 5446)
Thwaites 0116: ANIMALS. A single blue fox. (neg 5741)
Thwaites 0115: ANIMALS. Single blue fox.
Thwaites 0114: ANIMALS. Pack of blue foxes. (neg 5516, 5577-80, 5584- 85, 5587-89)
Thwaites 0105: ANIMALS. Mountain goat. (neg 5676)
Thwaites 0092: ANIMALS. Moose. "Battle scarred old warrior, Alaska". 1913.
Thwaites 0093: ANIMALS. Porcupine "Thanksgiving for the Alaska prospector"
Thwaites 0103: ANIMALS. Reindeer grazing.
Thwaites 0102: ANIMALS. Reindeer seen in a herd from the "U.S.S. Unalga".
Thwaites 0107: ANIMALS. Seals in a herd.
Thwaites 0108: ANIMALS. Seal herd, Pribylof Islands, Alaska. (neg 6063, 5486)
Thwaites 0109: ANIMALS. Seal rocks, Alaska. (neg 5778, 5877) Thwaites 0106: ANIMALS. Mountain sheep
Thwaites 0104: ANIMALS. Dead whale on beach.
Thwaites 0097: ANIMALS. Dead wolf on display at Bell Island. Thwaites 0052: ARROW. Fishing boat.
Thwaites 0237: Entrance to BALBOA BAY. (neg 939) Thwaites 0387: BARABARA. Native residence at Akutan, Alaska. (neg 1309)
Thwaites 0279: BARABARA at Kodiak.
Thwaites 0131: BARABARAS (Native residences) (negs 36, 37, 39, 514, 539, 572)
Thwaites 0254: Near BELKOFSKY, Alaska. (neg 1507A, 146, 1329A)
Thwaites 0042: Sailing ship "BENJ. F. PACKARD" at Chignik, Alaska. (neg 99)
Thwaites 0003: Wreck of "S.S. BERTHA", Uyak, Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Thwaites 0088: BIRDS. Douglas Cormorant on railing of ship. Thwaites 0090: BIRDS. Bald eagle at Ketchikan.
Thwaites 0089: BIRDS. Eagles. From Bluff Island (neg 5712)
Thwaites 0087: BIRDS. Flock of bald eagles at Ketchikan. Thwaites 0085: BIRDS. Gooneys. 1929?
Thwaites 0086: BIRDS. Grouse.
Thwaites 0094: BIRDS. Seagulls taken at Chumley. Thwaites 0095: BIRDS. Seagulls. 1929. (neg 1434, 1494, 1518, 5964, 5965)
Thwaites 0096: BIRDS. Gulls in the air.
Thwaites 0252: Capt. Summerville's fox ranch, BLUFF Island, Southeastern Alaska? (neg 5469)
Thwaites 0221: BRIDGE.
Thwaites 0208: BRIDGE over Copper River between Childs and Miles Glaciers, Alaska. (neg 4477) (PM) Thwaites 0057: Yacht in Alaskan waters.
Thwaites 0215: Prospectors CABIN. (neg Adams 5782) Thwaites 0226: CANNERIES. Alitak. 1929. (neg 6014, 6015)
Thwaites 0244: CANNERIES. Boca de Quadra. Thwaites 0243: CANNERIES. Boca de Quadra. North West Fish Co. (neg 5674, 5675)
Thwaites 0225: CANNERIES. Cordova. (neg 4126, 4159, 4160, 4237, 4262, 4411)
Thwaites 0171: CANNERIES. Chignik. Salmon Cannery. (neg 2102A, 109)
Thwaites 0246: CANNERIES. George Inlet Packing Co. (neg 5699, 5700)
Thwaites 0241: CANNERIES. Burning of the cannery at Hidden Inlet.
Thwaites 0242: CANNERIES. Hidden Inlet.
Thwaites 0268: CANNERIES. Ikitan. (neg 5969, 5970) Thwaites 0283: CANNERIES. King Cove. (neg 1332)
Thwaites 0281: CANNERIES. Kodiak. (neg 1383, 1380)
Thwaites 0280: CANNERIES. Lake Bay.
Thwaites 0296: CANNERIES. Loring. (neg 5643, 5644, 5645, 5646, 5727)
Thwaites 0295: CANNERIES. Metlakatla.
Thwaites 0294: CANNERIES. Nellie Juan. (neg 4253, 4402, 4410, 4412)
Thwaites 0172: CANNERIES. Clarke's Cannery, Nushagak. (neg 534, 470)
Thwaites 0320: CANNERIES. Port Moller. 1929. (neg 5950-2, 5958)
Thwaites 0170: CANNERIES. San Juan. (4431, 4508) Thwaites 0173: CANNERIES. Floating fish traps at Smiley's Cannery.
Thwaites 0267: CANNERIES. Smiley's Cannery at Ketchikan. Thwaites 0245: CANNERIES. Thlinket Packing Co. at Funter Bay. Thwaites 0392: CANNERIES. Unidentified
Thwaites 0168: CANNERIES. Unidentified.
Thwaites 0169: CANNERIES. Alaska. (629, 632, 1333, 1387, 1751, 2104, 4405, G11)
Thwaites 0347: CANNERIES. Cannery at Uyak Bay. (neg 1234, 709, 710, 714, 715, 716, 718, 719, 722)
Thwaites 0350: CANNERIES. Waterfall. (neg 1627, 1628) Thwaites 0349: CANNERIES. Yes Bay. (neg 5665, 5664, 5581, 5582)
Thwaites 0348: CANNERIES. Zacher Bay. (neg 5966, 5967, 5968)
Thwaites 0010: "CARMEN". Weekly visit of the mail boat. (neg 5858)
Thwaites 0032: "CARMEN". Ice on the mail boat near Ketchikan.
Thwaites 0011: Steamship "CATHERINE D."
Thwaites 0012: Steamship "S.S. CATHERINE D" in Alaska. 1930 (neg 6042, 6043, 6044, 6045, 6046)
Thwaites 0239: CHIGNIK, Alaska. (neg 111, 113, 123, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 948, 1009, 1044, 1378, 1515, 1516, 5533)
Thwaites 0382: Russian CHURCH, exterior and interior at Unalaska. (neg 1301, 1302, 1303)
Thwaites 0322: Episcopal CHURCH in Sitka. (neg 5287)
Thwaites 0339: Episcopal CHURCH in Sitka. (neg 5286)
Thwaites 0338: Russian CHURCH at Sitka. (neg 5269, 5268, 5271, 5272, 5273, 5283)
Thwaites 0262: Russian CHURCH at Kenai, Alaska. (neg 4413) Thwaites 0278: Russian CHURCH at Kodiak. (neg 389, 365) (365
Thwaites 0291: CHURCH at Lake Bennett.
Thwaites 0261: CHURCH of Fr. Duncan, exterior and interior at Metlakatla, Alaska. 1931. (5296)
Thwaites 0290: Presbyterian CHURCH at Metlakatla. (neg 5781) Thwaites 0289: Russian CHURCH at Nushagak. (neg 542, 574, 1210)
Thwaites 0319: Native Russian CHURCH, Russian at Port Moller. Exterior and interior. (neg 5956-57)
Thwaites 0341: Russian CHURCH at Unalaska. (neg 814, 818, 831)
Thwaites 0346: CHURCH at Valdez, Alaska. (neg V17) Thwaites 0260: Catholic and Methodist CHURCHES. Thwaites 0384: COLD BAY.
Thwaites 0238: COLD BAY, village and headland. Air Base at Cold Bay. (neg 162, 165, 973, 1491)
Thwaites 0058: "COLUMBIA" salmon cannery ship, wrecked in Alaska. (neg 988)
Thwaites 0009: "Anne COMYU". Scenes of the ship in an Alaska harbor.
Thwaites 0235: COPPER RIVER in wintertime.
Thwaites 0236: COPPER RIVER and Northwestern Ry across COPPER RIVER Flats. (neg Olsen no. 59)
Thwaites 0232: CORDOVA. (neg 2114, 2264, 4105, 4106, 4130, 4139, 4165, 4311, 4312, 4418, 5844)
Thwaites 0233: Dock at CORDOVA. (neg 2115-16, 4138, 4140, 4088, 4313)
Thwaites 0234: Night scene at CORDOVA. (neg Olsen no. 96) Thwaites 0395: COTTONWOOD Bay.
Thwaites 0231: CRAIG. (neg 5717, 5718, 5975)
Thwaites 0371: DOGS. "Mulligan of Nome"
Thwaites 0082: DOGS. Alaskan thoroughbreds. (neg Woods no. 5648)
Thwaites 0081: DOGS. (neg 1434, 1294)
Thwaites 0083: DOGS. Malamutes at Port Moller, Shore of Bering Sea. (neg 5946-49)
Thwaites 0076: DOG TEAMS. "Bogg's team as they appeared after a 1700 mile trip. 1907. Seward, Alaska" Thwaites 0074: DOG TEAMS near Seward, Alaska. (neg 4436, 4437, 4438, 4439, 4440)
Thwaites 0073: DOG TEAMS.
Thwaites 0078: DOG TEAMS at the headwaters of the Kuskokwim River. (neg 5575)
Thwaites 0079: DOG TEAMS crossing the Nizina River, Alaska. (neg 5848)
Thwaites 0080: DOGTEAMS transporting U.S. mail in Alaska. (neg 1390)
Thwaites 0075: DOG TEAMS in Alaska. (neg 5811, 5826) Thwaites 0077: DOG TEAMS in Alaska. (neg 169-170, 5397, 5496)
Thwaites 0072: Scenes of DOG SLED teams in and around Seward, Alaska. (neg 1445, 1453, 1456, 1463)
Thwaites 0375: DOG TEAM
Thwaites 0071: DOG TEAM. (neg 5817)
Thwaites 0013: Assorted scenes of the passengers of the ship "DORA". (neg 279, 281)
Thwaites 0014: Unloading horse from "S.S. DORA" in Alaska. (neg 175)
Thwaites 0015: The "DORA" near Kodiak, Alaska. 1912.
Thwaites 0016: Various scenes of the "DORA". 1912? (neg 180, 280, 285, 1101, 1316)
Thwaites 0017: Scenes of the wreckage of the "DORA". 1912. (neg 1319)
Thwaites 0018: The "DORA" off the Alaska coast. Thwaites 0019: Steamship "S.S. DOROTHY ALEXANDER" in Sitka, Alaska. (neg 5926)
Thwaites 0340: DUTCH HARBOR. (neg 286) (PM) Thwaites 0380: DUTCH HARBOR. (neg 1296) (PM) Thwaites 0230: The wireless station at DUTCH HARBOR. (neg 287)
Thwaites 0021: Steamship "EDITH" in distress and the crew being rescued. 1915. (neg 2701, 2704, 2706, 2711, 3107)
Thwaites 0020: Survivors of the "S.S. EDITH" being picked up by "S.S. Mariposa". 1915. (neg 2707, 2708, 2709, 2710, 2712)
Thwaites 0043: Tug "EQUATOR" entering Anchor Bay, Chignik, Alaska. (neg 94)
Thwaites 0063: Steamship "S.S. EXPLORER" opposite Clark's Cannery in Nushagek, Alaska. (neg 460) Thwaites 0062: Steamship "U.S.S. EXPLORER" in Alaskan waters. (neg 448, 681)
Thwaites 0396: EYAK LAKE. (neg 1310)
Thwaites 0228: FAIRBANKS, scenes in and around the city.
Thwaites 0229: FAIRBANKS. (neg 5565, 5606, 5607)
Thwaites 0023: Survivors of the wreck of the "FARALLON". 1910.
Thwaites 0026: Scenes of the wreck of the "FARALLON". 1910. (neg F3, F4, )
Thwaites 0025: Steamship "FARALLON" and some of the survivors. 1910. (neg F32, 4149)
Thwaites 0024: Scenes of the wreck of the "FARALLON" and the survivors. 1910. (neg F2, F3, F5, F6, F8, F9 F10, F11, F13, F14, F15, F17, F18, F20, F21, F23, F24, F25, F26, F27, F28, F30, F31, F33, F34, F35, F36, F37)
Thwaites 0030: The ship, the crew and captain of the "FARALLON" after the wreck. 1910. (F1, F7, F19)
Thwaites 0197: FISHING. Salmon jumping a falls in the Loring River. (neg 1557, 5557, 5558, 5562, 5563, 5564)
Thwaites 0198: FISHING. Salmon jumping in the Ketchikan Falls. (neg 5314)
Thwaites 0199: FISHING. Brailing a salmon trap. 1922. (neg 5421, 5422, 5423)
Thwaites 0200: FISHING. A fishing trap site in Western Alaska. (neg 6023)
Thwaites 0201: FISHING. Two boys with king salmon. (neg 5679) Thwaites 0202: FISHING. 40,000 red salmon at Chignik, Alaska.
Thwaites 0203: FISHING. Salmon traps. (neg 5424, 5425)
Thwaites 0204: FISHING. Fish traps from a seaplane. (5612)
Thwaites 0205: FISHING. Trolling fleet at Ketchikan, Alaska. 1930. (neg 5987)
Thwaites 0265: FISHING. Halibut fleet in the Ketchikan harbor in the spring. 1930. (neg 6034)
Thwaites 0266: FISHING. Trollers at the city dock in Ketchikan, Alaska. 1932. (neg 5313)
Thwaites 0132: FISHING. Eskimos fish caches in the Bering Sea area. (neg 522, 538, 549) (522, 538, 549 PM)
Thwaites 0250: FORT LISCUM. (neg 2155)
Thwaites 0029: Cannery ship "FULLER". Uyak, Alaska. (neg 708)
Thwaites 0033: Government boat "GEN. J.W. JACOBS" navigating the Yukon River. 1925. (neg 5608)
Thwaites 0143: Railroad bisecting a GLACIER.
Thwaites 0146: Bear GLACIER. (neg 1442)
Thwaites 0148: Childs GLACIER near Cordova, Alaska. (neg 1850, 1852, 1856, 1903, 4212, 4443, 4444, 4446)
Thwaites 0155: Columbia GLACIER. (neg 5471, 5510, 5525, 5526, 5530) (5530 PM)
Thwaites 0145: La Perouse GLACIER. (neg 2417, 4083, 6058)
Thwaites 0153: Mendenhall GLACIER . (neg 5777) Thwaites 0154: Mendenhall GLACIER.
Thwaites 0001: Miles GLACIER. Copper River. (neg 4441) Thwaites 0150: Ice bergs off Muir GLACIER.
Thwaites 0147: Nuka GLACIER. Kenai Peninsula. (neg 1473)
Thwaites 0158: Taku GLACIER. (neg 5237, 5915, 5916) Thwaites 0159: Taku GLACIER. (neg 5102, 5914) Thwaites 0160: Taku GLACIER.
Thwaites 0161: Taku GLACIER.
Thwaites 0162: Taku GLACIER. (neg 5553)
Thwaites 0156: Unidentfied GLACIER near Hyder, Alaska. Thwaites 0144: Unidentified GLACIER. (neg 5822, 5830, 288, V34)
Thwaites 0157: Unidentified GLACIERS. (neg 1783) Thwaites 0248: HOLY CROSS, Alaska. (neg 5568) Thwaites 0259: HOMER. (neg 306)
Thwaites 0370: "Raising HORSES in Alaska". "S.S. Dora" (neg 1280)
Thwaites 0212: HOSPITAL.
Thwaites 0258: HYDABURG. (neg 6040)
Thwaites 0257: Scenes of the buildings of HYDER. (neg 5109, 5110, 5112, 5128, 5181) (5110 PM)
Thwaites 0163: ICE BERGS in the Bering Sea. (neg 5513) Thwaites 0164: ICE BERGS. After an earthquake near an Alaskan glacier. (neg 5613, 5614, 5615)
Thwaites 0165: ICE BERGS in the Bering Sea in June. (neg 67, 69)
Thwaites 0393: ICE WORMS. (neg Hunt J510) (glass neg)
Thwaites 0389: Mt. ISANTOWSKY. (neg 1292)
Thwaites 0027: Wreck of the cannery ship "JABEZ HOWES", Chignik, Alaska.
Thwaites 0040: Cannery ship "JABEZ HOWES" at Chignik, Alaska. (neg 97, 98)
Thwaites 0056: The wreckage of the "JAMES DRUMMOND" at Bellabella, B.C. (neg 2011)
Thwaites 0028: Survivors of the "JOSEPH RUSS" being picked up by the "S.S. Dora" off the coast of Alaska. (neg 1027) Thwaites 0276: JUNEAU. Street scenes taken from the shore. (neg 1816, 1792, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 4482, 4483)
Thwaites 0277: JUNEAU. Scenes taken from the channel. (neg 1860, 3006, 3007, 4065, 4066, 4207, 4227, 4476, 4505)
Thwaites 0286: KARLUK. (neg 320, 326)
Thwaites 0275: KASAAN. The town and scenes of shipping. (neg 4176, 4178, 4478, 4480, 4481, 5881) (4481 Thwaites 0269: Panorama of KETCHIKAN (Picture of a picture on a wall).
Thwaites 0270: Halibut boats at the KETCHIKAN waterfront. (neg 6008)
Thwaites 0271: Union Oil ship and plant from the channel, KETCHIKAN. 1926.
Thwaites 0272: Baseball game in KETCHIKAN. (neg 5039, 5040, 5191)
Thwaites 0273: KETCHIKAN. (neg 5591, 5539)
Thwaites 0274: Part of KETCHIKAN.
Thwaites 0345: KETCHIKAN. "Thorn Arm". (neg 5642)
Thwaites 0390: KODIAK. Volcanic ash filling a small lake. (neg 1295)
Thwaites 0288: KODIAK. (4058, 5535, 5650)
Thwaites 0287: KODIAK. Russian church and Standard Oil Co. building.
Thwaites 0285: KODIAK. (neg 328, 354, 359, 388, 390, 391, 392, 1023, 1241, 1262, 1314, 1381, 1386)
Thwaites 0284: KODOAK. (neg French 5649)
Thwaites 0209: LAKE BENNETT in the Yukon Territory. (neg 6048)
Thwaites 0305: Scenes of LATROUCHE. (neg 1701, 1786, 2009A, 2103, 4037, 4070-71, 4100, 4136, 4151, 4220, 4254-56, 4258, 4275, 4406)
Thwaites 0304: Copper mine at LATROUCHE. 1925. (neg 5536) Thwaites 0360: Unalaska. Jessie LEE home. (neg 791, 795, 796, 799, 800, 801, 802)
Thwaites 0196: Trolling boat "LENA F." at Ball Island. Thwaites 0034: Steamship "LIBBY MAINE" in Alaskan waters. 1926.
Thwaites 0323: LIGHTHOUSE at Scotch Cap? (glass negs)
Thwaites 0324: LIGHTHOUSE at Scotch Cap.
Thwaites 0133: LIGHTHOUSES at Scotch Cap, Sarichet, and one not identified. (neg 616, 617, 4197)
Thwaites 0211: LOG CABINS. Pioneer and trapper cabins in Alaska. (neg 5403, 5404)
Thwaites 0035: Wreck and survivors of the "MARIPOSA". 1915. (neg 3100, 3101, 3103, 3103, 3104, 3105, 3106, 3107, 3108, 3109, 4025, 4061, 4062)
Thwaites 0223: Steamship "MARIPOSA" discharging freight at Anchorage. (neg 2408)
Thwaites 0059: Sternwheeler "MATAMSKA" landing passengers at Anchorage, Alaska. (neg 4234) Thwaites 0303: METLAKATLA. Residence of Fr. Duncan. Thwaites 0302: METLAKATLA. (neg 5464)
Thwaites 0187: MINING. Bonanza Mine in Alaska. (neg 5818) Thwaites 0189: MINING. Apollo Mine in Alaska.
Thwaites 0188: MINING. Pacer mining in Alaska. (neg 5670, 5824, 5827)
Thwaites 0186: MINING. Images of mining country around Hyder, Alaska. (neg 1518, 5123, 5124, 5127, 5130, 5153-54, 5168, 5365)
Thwaites 0190: MINING. Marble quarry in Alaska. (neg 5708) Thwaites 0193: MINING. Erie Mine, Kennecott, Alaska.
Thwaites 0195: MINING. 11 ft. of snow at mining camp. (neg 5114) Thwaites 0192: MINING. Jumbo tram.
Thwaites 0194: MINING. Prospectors and their animals. (neg 5821)
Thwaites 0191: MINING. Dredge mines in Alaska near Flat. (neg 5569, 5572, 5574, 5576)
Thwaites 0264: MINING. Copper mine at Kennecott, Alaska. (neg 4851)
Thwaites 0364: MISCELLANEOUS. Alaska scenes, interior.
Thwaites 0365: MISCELLANEOUS. Group stopped in the snow to rest "An Alaskan Oasis" (neg 5853)
Thwaites 0394: MUSHERS. Five men in Arctic dress. (neg 1286) Thwaites 0141: NATIVES. Indian girl.
Thwaites 0140: NATIVES. Native Alaskans. (neg 532)
Thwaites 0139: NATIVES. Old Eskimo couple. (neg 118)
Thwaites 0137: NATIVES. Native couple at Skakan, Alaska, each over 100 years old. They were curing a seal when asked to pose. (neg 4471, 4265)
Thwaites 0135: NATIVES. Three Eskimo children. (neg 1231, 1233, 1234)
Thwaites 0138: NATIVES. Eskimo children in Alaska. (neg 254, 494, 497, 517, 520, 570, 849, 1316A, 1377)
Thwaites 0306: NATIVES. Native children at Port Hyden, Bering Sea. (neg 571)
Thwaites 0134: NATIVES. Medicine man. (neg 495, 493, 543)
Thwaites 0136: NATIVES. Native with papoose. Victoria, B.C. 1908. (neg 3156)
Thwaites 0222: NATIVE BOATS. Bidarki, a native skin boat. (neg 77, 78, 79, 80)
Thwaites 0142: NATIVE BOATS. Bidarki. (neg 81)
Thwaites 0301: Tanana Bridge at NENANA, Alaska. (neg 5566, 5567)
Thwaites 0293: Bridge at NENANA. (neg 5609) Thwaites 0061: NO. 13. Destroyer at Taku Glacier, Alaska. (neg 5231)
Thwaites 0282: NORMAN. Fishing boat at Kodiak, Alaska. (neg 1235, 1335)
Thwaites 0037: "S.S. NORTHWESTERN" in Wrangell Narrows, Alaska. (neg 2252)
Thwaites 0036: "S.S. NORTHWESTERN" covered with ice at Juneau, Alaska. (neg 3999, 4001, 4003, 4006, 4007, 4016, 4019, 4023, 4024, 4025, 4029)
Thwaites 0300: NULATO. (neg 5570, 5573)
Thwaites 0297: Town of NUSHAGAK. (neg 506, 524, 528, 535, 975, 1184, 1211)
Thwaites 0299: NUSHAGAK. Bristol Bay, Bering Sea. (neg 515, 536, 975)
Thwaites 0298: Ships at NUSHAGAK. (neg 443, 455, 478, 481, 482, 483, 486, 489, 498, 513, 1044A, 1049, 1182, 1185, 1186, 1193, 1209)
Thwaites 0379: NUSHAGAK. Natives selling King salmon to a cannery.
Thwaites 0312: OLINDER.
Thwaites 0038: Wreck of "S.S. OLYMPIA", Alaska coast. 1910. (neg 660, 4485)
Thwaites 0377: ORCA. 1907. (PM)
Thwaites 0311: OUZINKIE near Kodiak. (neg 999)
Thwaites 0220: PEOPLE. J.E. Thwaites and a 40 lb. salmon at Bell Island.
Thwaites 0216: PEOPLE. An Alaskan fur trader. (neg 253) Thwaites 0214: PEOPLE. An Alaskan prospector. (neg 5842)
Thwaites 0213: PEOPLE. Horseman fording a river. (neg 5841)
Thwaites 0219: PEOPLE. Rev. Father Duncan, Metlaka tla, Alaska.
Thwaites 0381: PEOPLE. Fathers Duncan and Sergius. Thwaites 0218: PEOPLE. Traveling man dresses for the arctic trails.
Thwaites 0217: PEOPLE. Mr. and Mrs. Weir and Gov. and Mrs. Riggs on the first train from Seward to Anchorage. 1918.
Thwaites 0310: PETERSBURG. (neg 5719)
Thwaites 0315: PORTAGE BAY, Alaska. 1914. (neg 1800) Thwaites 0309: PORT ALEXANDER.
Thwaites 0308: Deep Sea Salmon Co. at PORT ALTHROP. Thwaites 0307: Scenes of PORT GRAHAM. 1931. (neg G1,G8, G12,G15, 615)
Thwaites 0306: PORT HAYDEN, Bering Sea. (neg 571)
Thwaites 0316: The "Catherine D." and a conveyor belt in use at PORT MOLLER. 1929. (neg 5959, 5960, 5961)
Thwaites 0317: Native cemetery, PORT MOLLER. (neg 5953, 527) Thwaites 0318: "Red Rover" and "Catherine D." at PORT MOLLER. 1929. (neg 5962)
Thwaites 0321: View of PORT MOLLER from the ship's deck. (neg 5954)
Thwaites 0210: PORT WALTER.
Thwaites 0151: PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. (neg 5823)
Thwaites 0039: "S.S. QUEEN" in Alaska. 1930. (neg 6036) Thwaites 0224: RAILROADS. Driving the first spike. At Ship Creek. 1915. (neg 2003A, 2204)
Thwaites 0314: RED BLUFF BAY.
Thwaites 0166: ROCK carving found at Saginaw, Alaska.
Thwaites 0313: RUBY, Alaska on the Yukon River. (neg 5571, 5611)
Thwaites 0358: Steamship "RUPERT CITY". Unloading British Columbia coal, Unalaska, Alaska. (neg 863
Thwaites 0064: Steamship "RUSH". Photo from the deck of mail steamer "Dora". (neg 590)
Thwaites 0328: SAND POINT. (neg 601, 608)
Thwaites 0337: Sheldon Jackson SCHOOL, Sitka. (neg 5274-75, 5285)
Thwaites 0343: Public SCHOOL at Douglas, Alaska. (neg 1919) Thwaites 0354: Government SCHOOL, Unalaska. (neg 810) Thwaites 0292: SCHOOL at Metlakatla.
Thwaites 0263: New SCHOOL building at Ketchikan. 1925. Thwaites 0378: SEAL ROCKS near Seward. (neg 1268)
Thwaites 0386: SELDOVIA (neg 458, 637, 641, 646, 647, 653, 654, 656, 657, 954, 1205, 1206, 1207, 1274, 1275, 1276, 1521, )
Thwaites 0373: North headlands of the SEMIDI ISLANDS. Thwaites 0326: A Lake near SEWARD. (neg 691) Thwaites 0247: SHAGALUK, Innaka River. (neg 5610) Thwaites 0325: SHAKAN. (neg 4143, 4147, 4254, 4401, 4470, 5707)
Thwaites 0255: SHIP CREEK. 1915. (neg 2210, 2207) Thwaites 0359: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Japanese seal poaching schooners captured by U.S. Revenue cutters. Unalaska. (neg 840, 853)
Thwaites 0376: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. U.S. government ships in the Bering Sea. Of the type "Marblehead", a light cruiser.
Thwaites 0374: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED.
Thwaites 0065: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Chinese and Japanese junks loaned to Thwaites by Wm. Sparks of Seattle in 1921.
Thwaites 0060: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. U.S. government ship in Bering Sea, light cruiser of the type Marblehead".
Thwaites 0068: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Unidentified fishing boats with a few steamships in the scene.
Thwaites 0067: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Unidentified ships in Alaskan waters. (neg 1506)
Thwaites 0051: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Wreck at Sand Point. (neg 596)
Thwaites 0031: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Wreck of halibut schooner near West end of Kodiak Island.
Thwaites 0069: SHIPS, UNIDENTIFIED. Japanese sealing schooner, Bering Sea. (neg 870, 872)
Thwaites 0368: SHUMAGIN Packing Company. Thwaites 0335: SITKA. (neg 5276, 5277, 5278, 5279, 5280, 5281, 5282, 5284, 5288, 5290)
Thwaites 0333: SKAGWAY. 1929. (neg 4429, 4310) Thwaites 0249: SKAGWAY. (neg 4308)
Thwaites 0334: SKAGWAY. Face Mountain. (Painting?) (glass neg)
Thwaites 0070: "S.S. SPOKANE" (neg 1777)
Thwaites 0331: SQUAW HARBOR. (neg 5971, 5972) Thwaites 0041: Cannery ship "STAR OF ALASKA" at Chignik, Alaska. (neg 1385A) (PM)
Thwaites 0298: Schooner "STAR OF INDIA". (neg 508) Thwaites 0332: STEWART, B.C. (neg 5142, 5144)
Thwaites 0042: Steamship "U.S.S. TAHOE" in Alaskan waters. Thwaites 0045: Steamships "TAHOMA" and "Unalga", Bering Sea.
Thwaites 0372: TEXAS CREEK and Mineral Mountain. Thwaites 0330: THANE, the Gastineau Gold Mine. (neg 1920, 2154, 2162, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4153, 4158, 4161, 4164, 4205-06, 4449, 4503)
Thwaites 0357: "U.S.S. THETIS" after a storm, Unalaska. (neg 856)
Thwaites 0336: TOTEMS in the Lovers Lane in Sitka. (neg 5292, 5293, 5294)
Thwaites 0167: TOTEM POLES, Southeast Alaska. (neg 1708, 1908, 2100, 2102, 2104, 2105, 2108, 5037, 5383, 5412, 5776, 5783, 5859, 5864, 5868, 5869, 5880, 5924, 5925, 6001, 6012, 6051, 6053)
Thwaites 0344: TREADWELL and Douglas, mining area. (neg 1916, 1917, 1918, 4462, 4113)
Thwaites 0066: "TRINITY" a halibut boat, Alaska. (neg 6011) Thwaites 0383: UNALASKA. (neg 1298, 1299)
Thwaites 0342: UNALASKA. (neg 830, 834, 827, 852, 1055)
Thwaites 0356: UNALASKA. (neg 813, 815, 817, 823, 829, 841, 852, 854, 1062, 1423)
Thwaites 0355: Scenes of the shipping at UNALASKA. (neg 1052, 1053, 1054, 1055, 1058)
Thwaites 0054: Wreck of revenue cutter "U.S.S. Unalga" in the Bering Sea. (glass neg)
Thwaites 0385: UNGA, Elephant Rock.
Thwaites 0363: UNGA. (neg 465, 735, 748, 749, 752, 765, 766, 770, 1014, 1048, 1527)
Thwaites 0361: Snow scenes in VALDEZ. (v1, v2, v3, v6, v7, v12, v13, v14, v15, v20, v21, v22, v23, v24)
Thwaites 0362: VALDEZ and harbor. (neg 1761, 2416, 4095, 4096, 4097, 4098, 4099, 2003, 1728, 4204, 4407, v.49)
Thwaites 0391: VALDEZ. (neg 1263)
Thwaites 0046: Gas boat "S.S. VANSEL" on the rocks.
Thwaites 0178: Akutan VOLCANO in eruption. (neg 4251, 4492)
Thwaites 0181: Chernaboro VOLCANO, Cook's Inlet, St. Augustine Island. (neg 886, 894, 895, 931, 894, 924, 926)
Thwaites 0176: Iliamna VOLCANO. (neg 883, 900) Thwaites 0175: Mt. Isanotsky VOLCANO. (neg 882, 884, 887, 890)
Thwaites 0179: Volcanic ash and smoke from Katmai VOLCANO, Kodiak Island. 1912. (neg 1107, 1108,1176, 1252 1295
Thwaites 0180: Rocks hurled 1-1/2 miles by explosion of Mt. Katmai VOLCANO. 1913.
Thwaites 0182: Katmai VOLCANO and volcanic dust at various times and places after the eruption. 1912. (neg 1035, 1109, 1175, 1180, 1225, 1226, 1252A, 1285A, 1511)
Thwaites 0183: Katmai VOLCANO in eruption.
Thwaites 0184: Pavlof VOLCANO. (neg 902, 920, 921, 922) Thwaites 0177: Pogrumno VOLCANO taken from Unamak Pass. (neg 155, 879, 880, 881, 1382, 1443)
Thwaites 0174: Redout VOLCANO at Cooks Inlet. (neg 4238) Thwaites 0185: Shishaldon VOLCANO. (neg 885, 893, 901, P35)
Thwaites 0352: Cannery tenders at WARDS COVE near Ketchikan, Alaska.
Thwaites 0351: WARDS COVE, Alaska. (neg 5260, 5261, 5262, 5263, 5504, 5506, 5508, 5447, 5448)
Thwaites 0084: WOLFFISH caught in Alaskan waters. Thwaites 0353: WRANGELL, Alaska. (neg 1749, 2104) Thwaites 0047: Steamship "S.S. YUKON" in Alaskan waters. (neg 5745)
Thwaites 0049: Wreck of the steamship "YUKON" wrecked on Sanak Island near Unamak Pass, Alaska. Thwaites 0048: Wreck of the steamship "YUKON" wrecked on Sanak Island near Unamak Pass, Alaska.
Thwaites UNNUMBERED: (247/12/55)
-3 b/w photographs. Unidentified.
-1 b/w photograph of man setting up photographic equipment. Thwaites? Seldovia, Alaska.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | item | ||
| 1 | 1-11 | Wreck of the salmon cannery ship Jabez Howes, Chignik, AK, 1911 | [1911] |
| 1 | 12 | Boggs and dogsled team of after 1700 mile trip, Seward, AK 1906-7 | 1906-7 |
| 12/2 | 13 | Aleut Barabara (residence), Akutan, Bering Sea, AK | |
| Box/Folder | |||
| 1 | 14-15 | Aleut Barabara (residence), Akutan, Bering Sea, AK | |
| 1 | 16 | Disabled schooner Allen A., Kodiak, AK | |
| 1 | 17 | P.A.F. salmon cannery, Kings Cove, AK | |
| 1 | 18 | Bering Sea in June. Bristol Bay, AK | |
| 1 | 19 | S.S. Dora encountering ice on the Bering Sea in June | |
| 1 | 20 | Bidarki (skin boat) on Cold Bay, AK | |
| 12/2 | 21 | Bidarki (skin boat) on Cold Bay, AK | |
| 1 | 22 | Bidarki (skin boat) on Cold Bay, AK | |
| 12/22 | 23-24 | Bidarki (skin boat) on Cold Bay, AK | |
| 1 | 25 | Tug, Equator, entering Anchor Bay, Chignik, AK | |
| 1 | 26-27 | Cannery ship at anchor | |
| 1 | 28 | Ship Benjamin F. Packard | |
| 1 | 29 | Salmon cannery, Chignik, AK | |
| 12/1 | 30 | Native extended family | |
| 1 | 31 | Cannery in bay “C.R.P.A.”, Chignik, AK | |
| 1 | 32 | Native couple, Chignik, AK | |
| 1 | 33 | Chignik Bay, AK, looking toward snow-covered hills | |
| 1 | 34 | Snow-covered docks and hills, Chignik, AK | |
| 1 | 35-38 | Looking back from ship to Chignik, AK and hills | |
| 1 | 39 | Belkofsky, AK | |
| 1 | 40 | Pogrumno Volcano, Unamak, AK | |
| 1 | 41 | Village at Cold Bay, AK | |
| 1 | 42 | Cold Bay, AK | |
| 1 | 43-44 | Dogsledding to the gold fields in Seward and Knik, AK | |
| 1 | 45 | Unloading horses from the S.S. Dora | |
| 1 | 46 | S.S. Dora | |
| 1 | 47 | Wreck of Farallon: Captain Hunter, and his chief, Duke. | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 48 | Wreck of Farallon: provisions saved from wrecked Farallon | |
| 1 | 49-51 | Wreck of Farallon: unloading from the wreck | |
| 1 | 52-55 | Wreck of Farallon: Farallon, seen in the distance from land | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 56-57 | Wreck of Farallon: scenes of the bay where survivors landed | |
| 1 | 58-66 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors exploring and gathering alder wood | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 67 | Wreck of Farallon: Captain Hunter | |
| 1 | 68 | Wreck of Farallon: portrait of survivor | |
| 1 | 69-73 | Wreck of Farallon: groups of survivors | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 74-76 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors gathering firewood | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 77-91 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors in makeshift camp | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 92 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors launching boat over floating ice | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 93 | Wreck of Farallon: view of Farallon covered in ice | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 94 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors preparing to launch boats | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 95-101 | Wreck of Farallon: view of Farallon with no ice | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 102 | Wreck of Farallon: First Officer Smith gathering firewood | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 103-105 | Wreck of Farallon: four weeks after wreck, covered in ice | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 106 | Wreck of Farallon: securing provisions from the wreck | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 107 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors eating first breakfast ashore | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 108 | Wreck of Farallon: boat crew starting for Kodiak 130 miles away to get help | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 109 | Wreck of Farallon: wreck covered in ice, Feb. 2, 1910 | [Wreck Jan. 5, 1910] Photo Feb 2, 1910 |
| 1 | 110 | Wreck of Farallon: carrying alder branches one-half mile | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 111 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors enjoying sunshine | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 112 | Wreck of Farallon: view across bay looking toward the Farallon | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 113 | Wreck of Farallon: scenes of ice-covered rocks on shore | |
| 1 | 114 | Wreck of Farallon: view of Farallon with no ice | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 115 | Wreck of Farallon: first breakfast on shore | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 116 | Wreck of Farallon: survivors looking out to see for signs of rescue | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 117 | Wreck of Farallon: boats unloading supplies on shore | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
| 1 | 118 | Wreck of Farallon: camp on the first day shipwrecked | [Jan. 5, 1910] |
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Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
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