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Lee Kelso Alaska photograph album, approximately 1948-1950
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Kelso, Lee (Fisher)
- Title
- Lee Kelso Alaska photograph album
- Dates
- approximately
1948-1950 (inclusive)19481950
- Quantity
- 58 photographs in 1 album (1 box)
- Collection Number
- PH1040
- Summary
- Album of photographs of Alaska, mostly of locations on the Alaska Panhandle
- Repository
-
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
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs of Alaska, from an album that relates to Lee Kelso who was apprently a fisherman in Alaska.
The photographs show southeastern Alaska, including images of Juneau, Petersburg, Baranof Warm Springs, Tebenkof Bay, and Icy Strait. Many of the photographs appear to have been taken from aboard a boat, including images of fishing boats, a mail boat, a storm at sea. Also includes images of fox ranches.
Other photos in the back of the album are not captioned and may have been added later. These depict Fairbanks, the McKinley Park Hotel, Montana, and unidentified locations.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
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Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Lee Kelso Alaska albumReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1a | Boat at Juneau, Alaska dock
Written on verso: Lee Kelso old steel boat I'm tied up here now
with my other boat. July 12 Dad
|
July 12, 1950 |
1/1 | 1b |
Boat at dock with two people standing on
deck
Caption on page: E.W Schmidt and Martha 1948 Seattle, Wash.
$1200 for boat.
|
1948 |
1/1 | 1c | Deck of boat in Juneau, Alaska
Lee Kelso
(photographer)
Written on verso: Boat deck of 1XL Juneau Alaska Taken by Lee
Kelso April 1950.
|
April 1950 |
1/1 | 1d | Men working on halibut fishing boat, Juneau,
Alaska
Written on verso: Men putting ice in hole of Halibut boat- piped
in. Row boat of floats sticks of bamboo for red flags up in line. rolls of line
ready to hang hooks on. Juneau May 1st 1950.
Caption on page: ICE-HER-UP Juneau Alaska and on deck view.
|
May 1, 1950 |
1/1 | 1e | Fleet of boats at dock, Juneau, Alaska
Written on verso: Halibut fleet all set to go midnight May 1st
Juneau Alaska 1950.
|
May 1, 1950 |
1/1 | 1f | May 1, 1950 | |
1/2 | 2a | Buildings along shore, Petersburg, Alaska
Written on verso: Petersburg Alaska South April 12-50 Lees
|
April 12, 1950 |
1/2 | 2b |
View of lake, houses, and mountains, Warm Springs,
Alaska
Caption on page: Warm Springs, Alaska 1948
|
1948 |
1/2 | 2c |
Rubyand other boats at
dock, Petersburg, Alaska
Caption on page: Petersburg, Alaska Sept 1950. Ruby- Marion
Kelso and Lee Kelso come on her to Petersburg from Juneau.
|
September 1950 |
1/2 | 2d | Coast Guard watch station in Petersburg,
Alaska
Written on verso: Coast Guard watchman station marry one of them
and hide way out on a rock like this Naomi. As long as you are toothless. Never
see anyone for months at a time. Dad.
Caption on page: Light house
|
1948-1950 |
1/2 | 2e |
Building on Olaf Tendoford fox farm inTebenkof Bay,
Alaska
Caption on page: Smoke house
|
1950 |
1/3 | 3a | View from the deck of a boat of birds on an ice floe,
Petersburg, Alaska |
1950 |
1/3 | 3b |
Walt Speirl standing next to boatYakobicovered in ice at a dock, Juneau,
Alaska
Caption on page: Walt Speirl Mail Boat Juneau 1950
|
1950 |
1/3 | 3c | View of Warm Springs, Alaska
Lee Kelso
(photographer)
Caption on page: Warm-Springs or Baranof Chatham Straits
1950.
Written on verso: Warm Springs or Baranof across from Tyee
Alaska Taken by Lee Kelso from boat Yakobi P.O and 2 stores here.This really
does not do it justice however. The waterfall is beautiful and its much higher
up on the hills. There is a lake up back too. 40 mi to my place good hot baths
here for 75 cents cabins too. don't look warm does it.
|
1950 |
1/4 | 4a | 1948 | |
1/4 | 4b | View of Frank Wyatt's fox farm from a boat in Tebenkof
Bay, Alaska
Lee Kelso
Written on verso: Fox farm Tebenkof Bay Alaska Taken by Lee
Kelso April 1950. The Boat of Lee Kelso 90 miles to Petersburg, Alaska
Caption on page: Frank Wyatts Fox Ranch Tebenkof Bay.
|
April 1950 |
1/4 | 4c-4d | Frank Wyatt's fox farm in Tebenkof Bay,
Alaska |
May 1950 |
1/4 | 4e | Juneau, Alaska seen from the water |
1950 |
1/5 | 5a |
Frank Wyatt on boat in front of fox ranch in Tebenkof
Bay, Alaska
Caption on page: Frank Wyatt fox ranch
|
1950 |
1/5 | 5b | BoatValkyrieat boat dock
Juneau, Alaska
Written on verso: [Illeg] is a big boat I wanted for
Halibut.$2500 and 8 people can life on it now. Fellow died and its an estate
for sale.
Caption on page: Boat for sale Juneau room for 8 people aboard
ask $5000 42 ft.
|
1950 |
1/5 | 5c | Fox on shoreline at Frank Wyatt's fox ranch in Tebenkof
Bay, Alaska
Written on verso: Tebenkof Bay, April 1950. Tried to get geese
in near shore but too dark a day. Did get the fox though as he followed me
around. Great pet but are dirty as they eat and sh-t.
Caption on page: Fox
|
April 1950 |
1/5 | 5d | View of Olaf Tenoford fox farm from boat in Tebenkof
Bay, Alaska
Caption on page: Olaf Tenoford fox farm.
|
1950 |
1/5 | 5e | Olaf Tendoford fox farm inTebenkof Bay,
Alaska |
1950 |
1/6 | 6a |
View of Olaf Tenoford fox farm from boat in Tebenkof
Bay, Alaska
Caption on page: Tebenkof Bay, Fox Ranch.
|
1950 |
1/6 | 6b | View of oil tanker near Petersburg, Alaska
Caption on page: Oil Tanker.
|
1950 |
1/6 | 6c | 1950 | |
1/6 | 6d | View of mountains near Petersburg, Alaska
Written on verso: Going to Petersburg about 5 miles north of
town. Lee Kelso April 1950
Caption on page: Near Peterburg, Alaska
|
April 1950 |
1/6 | 6e | View of Icy Strait, Alaska covered in fog
Caption on page: Icy Straight, Alaska 1950
|
1950 |
1/7 | 7a | View of Icy Strait, Alaska |
1950 |
1/7 | 7b | 1950 | |
1/7 | 7c-7d |
People on deck of a boat,Alaskan
Caption on page: Alaskan 1950.
|
1950 |
1/7 | 7e | View of storm approaching at Icy Strait,
Alaska
Caption on page: Icy Strait Alaska storm approach. Breaks now
better-get.
|
1950 |
1/7 | 7f | View of Round Island, Alaska from boat
Caption on page: Out-the hole to ocean Round Island.
|
1950 |
1/8 | 8a | View of a building in Greenough, Montana |
1948-1950 |
1/8 | 8b | Mission Mountains in St. Ignatius, Montana |
1948-1950 |
1/9 | 9 | 2nd Street, Fairbanks, Alaska
Written on verso: Lee Kelso. Fairbanks.
|
1948-1950 |
1/10 | 10a | View of lake in Canada from the Alaskan
highway
Written on verso: Canada, view of lake from Alaska highway.
|
1948-1950 |
1/10 | 10b | McKinley Park Hotel, Alaska
Written on verso: Alaska 1949. Lee Kelso.
Caption on front: McKinley Park Hotel, Alaska, A.P.S.
|
1949 |
1/10 | 10c | Ray and Alice Graham standing together in front yard in
Fairbanks, Alaska
Written on verso: Ray and Alice Graham Fairbanks, Alaska.
|
1948-1950 |
1/11 | 11 | 1948-1950 | |
1/12 | 12a | 1948-1950 | |
1/12 | 12b | 1948-1950 | |
1/12 | 12c | Group of men and women walking up a hill at
sunset |
1948-1950 |
1/12 | 12d | Group of men and women standing on a cliff at
sundown
Written on verso: 11:45 P.M.
|
1948-1950 |
1/13 | 13a | View of buildings and landscape |
1948-1950 |
1/13 | 13b | 1948-1950 | |
1/13 | 13c | 1948-1950 | |
1/13 | 13d | Wrecking truck lifiting crumpled machine, possiably an
airplane |
1948-1950 |
1/13 | 13e | Construction of building |
1948-1950 |
1/13 | 13f | Barrels on deck of boat near the Aleutian
Islands
Written on verso: Foggy day at sea.
|
1948-1950 |
1/14 | 14a-d | View of landscape along road |
1948-1950 |
1/14 | 14e | View of mountains and lake |
1948-1950 |
1/14 | 14f | View of body of water and shoreline |
1948-1950 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Buildings--Alaska--Photographs
- Fox farming--Alaska--Tebenkof Bay--Photographs
- Ships--Alaska--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Kelso, Lee (Fisher)--Archives
Geographical Names
- Alaska, Southeast--Photographs
- Alaska--Photographs
- Baranof Island (Alaska)--Photographs
- Icy Strait (Alaska)--Photographs
- Juneau (Alaska)--Photographs
- Montana--Photographs
- Petersburg (Alaska)--Photographs
- Sitka (Alaska)--Photographs
- Tebenkof Bay (Alaska)--Photographs