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Otto D. Goetze photographs of Nome, Alaska, circa 1900-1908
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Goetze, O. D. (Otto Daniel)
- Title
- Otto D. Goetze photographs of Nome, Alaska
- Dates
- circa 1900-1908 (inclusive)19001908
- Quantity
- 38 prints (1 box and 1 oversize folder) ; various sizes
- Collection Number
- PH0304
- Summary
- Photographs documenting Nome, Alaska taken by photographer Otto D. Goetze
- 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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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries’ Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Otto Daniel Goetze was born in Missouri in 1871 to a German immigrant family of twelve children. He moved to Walla Walla, Washington as a young man, then to Oregon and later to Seattle. Goetze went to Alaska around 1898 as the Gold Rush began and established a photography studio in Nome. He often worked as an itinerant photographer and photographed throughout southeast Alaska, the Yukon and Siberia with his base in Nome. He also photographed at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. He sold his business in Nome to the Lomen Brothers in 1908 and moved to Seattle where he operated the Alaska Photo Studio from 1909 to 1912. He was among a number of photographers who made photographic postcards at Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Goetze got married in 1911 and had a daughter, Dorothy, in 1912. In 1914, the family moved to a farm in Cedar Valley. Goetze sold the farm in the 1930s as a consequence of financial difficulties related to the Depression; afterwards Goetze may have moved to Monroe, Washington.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Most of the photographs in the collection depict scenes of Nome, including street scenes, snowy landscapes, waterfront activities, Eskimos, the fire of 1903, and mining claims in the vicinity. Goetze collection numbers are written on verso or on the images.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
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NomeReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Nome street scenes |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
M270 | 1 |
Bird's-eye-view of Nome looking west with the Bering
Sea and Front St. at left
Panorama made of three attached panels.
|
circa 1907 |
1/1 | 2 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/1 | 3 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/1 | 4 |
Bird's-eye view of Nome looking north (Goetze
1010)
Shows undertaking parlor and Hotel Del Norte along Front St.,
and St. Joseph's Catholic church to the northwest.
|
circa 1900-1908 |
1/1 | 5 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/1 | 6 |
Tunnel in snow leading to front door
of house (Goetze 213)
Caption on photo: Snow in Winter in Nome Alaska.
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circa 1900-1908 |
1/1 | 7 |
Dog team on snow-covered Front Street
(Goetze 1005)
Shows several businesses including The Igloo, W.J. Rowe
Transfer & Freighting, and Ames Mercantile.
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circa 1900-1908 |
1/1 | 8 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/1 | 9 |
Snow tunnel leading to miners cabin
buried in snow (Goetze 973)
Handwritten on image: A happy miner's home in Nome Alaska.
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circa 1900-1908 |
1/1 | 10 | July 24, 1908 | |
Nome beach |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/2 | 11 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/2 | 12 |
Ice breakup on Snake River near
several Nome riverfront businesses including U. S. Restaurant (Goetze
C149)
Caption on photo: Ice going out Snake River
|
1901 |
1/2 | 13 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/2 | 14 |
Men displaying bundles of whale
baleen on beach (Goetze C173)
Caption on image: Whalebone on Nome beach.
|
circa 1900-1908 |
1/2 | 15 | circa 1900-1908 | |
Nome fires |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/3 | 16 |
Collapsed and smoking burned building
during Nome's 1903 fire (Goetze C139)
Caption on photo: Nome's second big fire.
|
Jan. 31, 1903 |
1/3 | 17 | circa 1903-1905 | |
U.S. Senators' and Congressmen's visit to
Nome
A contingent of Senators and Congressman visited Nome in 1903.
Included in these photographs are possibly Senator W. P. Dillingham, of
Vermont, Senator H. E. Burnham, of New Hampshire, Senator Knut Nelson of
Minnesota and Senator E. M. Patterson of Colorado. Also included in that party
were Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; Col. Ramsdell; Lt. Andrews, of the U.S.
Army; Dr. Willcox; Mr. John McLane {McLain}, Ed. Minneapolis Journal & Mr.
Brill, of the Associated Press.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 18 | 1903 | |
1/4 | 19 | 1903 | |
1/4 | 20 |
Senators being lowered onto a barge
by a crane (Goetze C113)
Handwritten on image: Senatorial Party leaving Nome,
Alaska.
|
1903 |
Nome Environs |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 21 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/5 | 22 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/5 | 23 | June 3, 1907 | |
1/5 | 24 | circa 1900-1908 |
MiningReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/6 | 25 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/6 | 26 |
Dumps and workings of the Burns Bench
and Sunshine Claim on third beach line (Goetze 1001)
Handwritten on image: G. Hendricks, Morrison-Gunderson
Ekstrom.
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circa 1900-1908 |
1/6 | 27 |
Dump on Burns Bench claim on Irene
Creek (Goetze 1003)
Handwritten on image: J. Hendricks.
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circa 1900-1908 |
EskimosReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/7 | 28 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/7 | 29 |
Eskimo boy on the beach with Nome in
the background (Goetze 101)
Caption on photo: Eskimo son.
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circa 1900-1908 |
1/7 | 30 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/7 | 31 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/7 | 32 |
Eskimo cooking food on beach (Goetze
C170)
Caption on photo: Eskimo cooking lunch.
|
circa 1900-1908 |
1/7 | 33 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/7 | 34 |
Eskimos aboard the sailboat
Sophiain Nome harbor (Goetze C168)
Handwritten on image: Eskimo own make.
|
circa 1900-1908 |
1/7 | 35 | circa 1900-1908 | |
1/7 | 36 |
Studio portrait of Happy Jack Angokwazhuk and one of his
wives
Happy Jack was a famous and innovative ivory carver, the first
Alaskan Eskimo to make a living from his art. After losing both feet from being
trapped in ice during a hunting expedition, Jack turned to carving to support
his family. His extremely personable and optimistic personality earned him the
nickname "Happy Jack."
|
circa 1905 |
1/7 | 37 |
Studio portrait of Happy Jack's wife (Goetze
A617)
This photo in other collections shows caption: Eskimo Beauty of
Alaska.
|
circa 1905 |
1/7 | 38 |
Eskimo woman and man in tent with personal
belongings
Transferred from Lomen collection PH Coll 328
|
circa 1900-1908 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)