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Charles S. Hubbell photograph collection, 1898-1942
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Hubbell, C. S. (Charles S.)
- Title
- Charles S. Hubbell photograph collection
- Dates
- 1898-1942 (inclusive)18981942
- Quantity
- 96 black-and-white photographs, 18 negatives (1 box) ; sizes vary
- Collection Number
- PH1154
- Summary
- Photographs of Hubbell family trips, Native Alaskans, settlers, and Alaskan buildings and landscapes
- 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.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Charles Sumner Hubbell was born on March 3, 1860 in Knox County, Illinois, to Mary Maxey and Jonathan Hubbell. By 1907, he had become a deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor. Hubbell married Marie Blanche Hollingshead on January 14, 1910. In 1920, Hubbell and Harold H. Waller founded the Hubbell & Waller Engineering Corporation, which surveyed homestead and mineral claims, trade and manufacturing sites, and salmon cannery sites. In 1942, Hubbell, then 80 years old, sold his share of Hubbell & Waller to Waller, who then became president. Hubbell died on December 21, 1957.
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
In 1896, the Klondike Gold Rush started in the Yukon Territory, Canada with the discovery of gold in Bonanza Creek on the Klondike River. In the summer of 1897, miners arrived in San Francisco and Seattle from Alaska via two steamers, collectively carrying five thousand pounds of gold from the Klondike River. Over the next two years, thousands of prospectors rushed to reach the gold fields.
The Gold Rush material in this collection is primarily from Nome, Alaska in 1898. Nome became a destination for gold seekers after two Swedes found gold in 1898. By 1899, the area's population had grown to 10,000.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Images include scenes from the Klondike Gold Rush in Nome, Alaska, scenes from Sitka, Kodiak, and aerials of the Raspberry Straits. Photographs from various trips to locations in Alaska make up a large part of the collection. These include images near Anchorage, possibly the Inland Passage, Southeast Alaska, and St. Michael. Hubbell family photos are also included.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View the digital version of the collection
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
Donor: C. S. Hubbell; received January 1, 1954.
Processing Note
Processed by Clare Tally-Foos, 2012; Beck Prigot, 2015; processing completed in 2016.
Some photographs were relocated from the Charles S. Hubbell Collection, Accession No. 4496-001, in the repository on March 11, 2005.
Some photographs were relocated from the Alaska Subject File, 2014.
Originally accessioned as PH Coll 2005-020.
Separated Materials
Material Described Separately:Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Hubbell family and friendsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1 | November 10, 1936 | |
1/1 | 2 | circa 1930s-1940s | |
1/1 | 3 | circa 1930s-1940s | |
1/1 | 4 | circa 1920s-1930s | |
1/1 | 5 | circa 1920s | |
1/1 | 6 | between 1899-1909 | |
1/1 | 7 | circa late 1910s-1920s | |
1/1 | 8-9 | circa 1920s-1930s | |
1/1 | 10 | circa 1920s-1930s | |
1/1 | 11 | circa 1920s-1930s | |
1/1 | 12 | circa late 1910s-1920s | |
1/1 | 13 |
Man standing with two young men
Frank Jacobs,
Seattle (photographer)
|
January 1, 1932 |
AlaskaReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Klondike Gold Rush |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/2 | 14 | between 1896-1910 | |
1/2 | 15 |
Five men in front of log building (Camp Cocheco), near
Skagway
Written on verso: Ten miles from Skaguay
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between 1896-1910 |
1/2 | 16 |
Two men standing outside the first U.S. Customs House,
Juneau, Alaska
Written on verso: First U.S. Customs House, Juneau, Alaska.
Capt. Wilson collector. Given me by Rev. Corser.
|
circa 1880s-1890s |
Nome |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/3 | 17 | circa 1898 | |
1/3 | 18 | August 1898 | |
1/3 | 19 | 1898 | |
1/3 | 20 | 1898 | |
1/3 | 21 | 1898 | |
1/3 | 22 | circa 1910 | |
1/3 | 23 | 1899 | |
1/3 | 24 | 1899 | |
1/3 | 25 |
Group of men and women, Nome, Alaska
Written on verso: (The Baron) Gov. "Johnnie" Troy. 1933 -
Nome, Alaska. Ann Morrow Lindberg. King Islanders? Chief of the Diomede
Islands. The Governors' daughter, his secretary. Piccolo Pete - son of nurse of
S. S. Victoria. Bert Niely, U. S. Marshall - Marshall, Alaska (Fortuna Lodge).
Mrs. Welsch (wife of Dr. Welsch).
|
1933 |
Kenai Peninsula |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 26 |
Man standing in front of A-frame house,
Valdez
Written on verso: Queer house Valdez
|
circa 1906 |
1/4 | 27a-b |
Five men standing in front of cabin,
Chickaloon
Written on verso of 27b: 5 hoboes. Taken at Chickaloon in
1906.
Items 27a and b are mirrored prints of one another.
|
1906 |
1/4 | 28a-b |
Man sitting in front of wood structure,
Seldovia
Written on verso of 28a: Taken in Seldovia in 1906.
|
1906 |
1/4 | 29 |
Man (possibly Jim McGrath) taking off clothing by
Gandil River
Caption on photo: Near to Nature on Gandil River, Alaska
Written on verso: Jim McGrath
|
circa 1906 |
Inland Passage |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 30 | circa 1906 | |
1/5 | 31-33 |
Tlingit totem pole known as Chief Johnson Totem and
clan house with whale design, Ketchikan
Items 32 and 33 are scans of negatives
|
circa 1906 |
1/5 | 34-35 |
Man, possibly Charles Jones (Chief Shakes VII),
standing next to totem pole, Wrangell, Alaska
Written on verso of 35: Kuiu Charlie's totem pole -
Wrangell, Alaska
|
circa 1906 |
1/5 | 36 |
Portrait of Irena Malzowa
Written on verso: Irena Malzowa. Taken in 1906, age given as
106 yrs. Had a daughter past 70 years.
|
1906 |
1/5 | 37 | circa 1906 | |
1/5 | 38 | circa 1906 | |
1/5 | 39 | circa 1906 | |
1/5 | 40 | circa 1906 | |
1/6 | 41 | circa 1906 | |
1/6 | 42 |
Group of men and dogs standing in front of log
cabin
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/6 | 43 |
Group of men with surveying equipment in front of
boulder
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/6 | 44 |
Two men in parkas standing in snow
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/6 | 45 |
Two men standing in front of log cabin
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/6 | 46 |
Two men with dogsled team in snow
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/6 | 47 |
Man with lantern standing in front of log powder
house
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/6 | 48 |
Three men standing in front of two-story log
cabin
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/7 | 49-50 |
Man sitting in front of door, probably Yakutat,
Alaska
Item 50 is a scan of a negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/7 | 51 | circa 1906 | |
1/7 | 52 |
Dresser with mirror and photographs; man reflected in
mirror
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/7 | 53 |
Man sitting in front of floral wallpaper
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
1/7 | 54 |
Woman sitting next to Native woven basket
Scanned from negative
|
circa 1906 |
Southeast Alaska |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/8 | 55 | circa 1920s | |
1/8 | 56 | circa 1906 | |
1/8 | 57 | circa 1906 | |
1/8 | 58 | circa 1906 | |
Aerial views of Raspberry Straits
Southwestern end of Afognak
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/9 | 59 | circa 1920s | |
1/9 | 60 | circa 1920s | |
1/9 | 61 | circa 1920s | |
1/9 | 62 | circa 1920s | |
1/9 | 63 | circa 1920s | |
1/9 | 64 | circa 1920s | |
1/9 | 65 | circa 1920s | |
St. Michael |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/10 | 66 | circa 1930s | |
1/10 | 67 | circa 1930s | |
1/10 | 68 | circa 1930s | |
1/10 | 69 | circa 1930s | |
1/10 | 70 | circa 1930s | |
1/10 | 71 | circa 1930s | |
1/10 | 72 | circa 1930s | |
Kodiak |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/11 | 73 |
Aerial view of Kodiak
Written on verso: Town of Kodiak from high ground behind
it.
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circa 1920s |
1/11 | 74-75 | circa 1910s | |
1/11 | 76 | 1880 | |
1/11 | 77 | circa 1885 | |
Sitka |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/12 | 78 |
Sitka Hot Springs
Written on verso: Sitka Hot Mineral Springs-a cure for the
sick and a pleasure for the well a way to keep well.
|
circa 1910s-1930s |
1/12 | 79 | undated | |
1/12 | 80 | undated | |
1/12 | 81 | circa 1880s-1890s (before March 17, 1894) | |
1/12 | 82 | March 17, 1894 | |
1/12 | 83 | undated |
Other Alaska/Canada photographsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/13 | 84 | undated | |
1/13 | 85 |
Man picking worms out of a glacier
P. S. Hunt
(photographer)
Caption on photo: Ice Worms
Stamped on back: Hyder Drug Company "The Postoffice Store"
Hyder, Alaska
|
circa 1910-1912 |
1/13 | 86 |
International boundary monument, Canadian border, Hyder,
Alaska
Stamped on back: Hyder Drug Company "The Postoffice Store"
Hyder, Alaska
|
after 1898 |
1/13 | 87 |
Group of men and dogs in front of McQuesten and Company,
Circle City, Alaska
Written on verso: "Jack McQuesten's Trading Post, 1890s" (J.
Cole)
|
circa 1895 |
1/13 | 88-89 | between late 1920s-late 1940s | |
1/13 | 90 | between late 1920s-late 1940s |
ShipsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/14 | 91 | after 1898 | |
1/14 | 92 |
SS Ancon, Metlakatla,
Alaska
Caption on photo: Hemlock tree, Stars and Stripes!, Steamship
"Ancon"
|
before August 29, 1889 |
1/14 | 93 | circa 1906 | |
1/14 | 94 | between late 1920s-late 1940s |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Gold mines and mining--Yukon
Family Names
- Hubbell family--Photographs
- Hubbell, C. S. (Charles S.)--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Alaska, Southeast--Photographs
- Inside Passage--Photographs
- Juneau (Alaska)--Photographs
- Kenai Peninsula (Alaska)--Photographs
- Kodiak (Alaska)--Photographs
- Nome (Alaska)--Gold discoveries
- Nome (Alaska)--Photographs
- Saint Michael (Alaska)--Photographs
- Skagway (Alaska)--Photographs
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)