University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0301Case & DraperCase & Draper
Alaska photographsapproximately 1905-190722 photographic prints (1 box and 1 folder), sizes
varyCollection
materials are inEnglish.Photographs of
Alaska including mining and canning companies, hunting, the Alaska Central
Railway, sternwheelers, Native Americans and the first automobile in Alaska.
Also included is letter about the AYPE live game exhibit, and a folding
souvenir mailer containing photos of AlaskaWilliam Howard Case arrived in Skagway in 1898 and later resided in
Juneau until his death in 1920. In 1901 Case & Draper received a contract
from White Pass and Yukon Route to photograph the scenery along the railway
route. About 1905, Case and Draper opened a branch studio in Juneau. The
partnership, however, dissolved in 1907. The photographic business in Skagway
was continued by Horace H. Draper under the name Draper and Co. It may have
survived until 1914.
The collection contains scenes of Alaska, including mining and canning
companies, hunting, the Alaska Central Railway, sternwheelers, Native Americans
and the first automobile in Alaska. Also included in the collection is a letter
concerning the AYPE live game exhibit, and a small booklet entitled "Alaska
Mailing Souvenir." Much of the collection are copy prints issued by Webster and
Stevens, Seattle photographers.
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Native American images are included in the Native American Microfiche
(NA2452-2477).
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Processed by Susan Fitch. Completed in 2013.
Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)Photographic printsMines and Mineral ResourcesPhotographsFishing and CanningRailroadsAlaska
Mines, canneries, and mills1/11Men and horses in front of O'Brien and Hinkle Packers
building, Skagway, Alaska 1906? 1/12Waterwheel at Ketchikan Creek, Alaska (Case & Draper
2374)1905 1/13Ebner Mine at Silver Bow Basin, Alaska1905? 1/14Treadwell mine, superintendent residence, and machine
shop on Douglas Island, Alaska (Case & Draper 7-N)1906? 1/15The Alaska Perseverance Mine, Silverbow Basin, Juneau
Alaska (Case & Draper 2352-N)1906? 1/16Thlinket Packing Co. salmon trap no. 7, Funter Bay,
Alaska (Case & Draper 2352-N)August 2, 1907 1/17Interior of canning department at the Thlinket Packing
Co., Funter Bay, Alaska (Case & Draper 22-N)August 2, 1907 Hunting1/28Hunters posing with the mountain goats they killed,
White Pass, Alaska (Case & Draper 47-N)1907?Captions on photo: Mountain goats from summit of White Pass.
Goats labeled, from left to right: "330 lbs" and "225 lbs."
Written on verso: Mountain Goat killed on White Pass at the
head of the Yukon River.
1/29aW.H. Case holding daughter Madge Case in arms, next to
mountain goats killed in a hunt, White Pass, Alaska (Case & Draper
35-N)1907?Caption on front: Result of a days sport at Summit of White
Pass. By Dr. L.A. Baughman and W.H. Case.
Written on verso: One days slaughter among the mountain goat
herds of Tanana, Alaska.
Included with a copy (item 9b) of this photograph was a letter
protesting hunting. See item 9c.
1/29bW.H. Case holding daughter Madge Case in arms, next to
mountain goats killed in a hunt, White Pass, Alaska (Case & Draper
35-N)1907?Same image as 9a. Bottom of photo with caption is cut off.
Written on verso: One day's slaughter by one man on Wood River
in the Tanana.
Included with this photo was a letter, Item 9c.
OS19cPress-release letter concerning the live game exhibit at
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition1909?An undated and unsigned letter describing the live game exhibit
at the upcoming 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition in Seattle, in which live
game specimens from California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska will be
displayed as an appeal to stop the over-hunting of game animals in the West
Coast states, an effort supported by President Theodore Roosevelt. Found behind
item 9b.
1/210Two men sitting with their kill after a bear hunt (Case
& Draper 34-N)1907?Caption on photo: Home with our plunder.
Written on verso: Washington black bear bagged 80 minutes out
from Seattle.
Indian and Alaskan Towns1/311Tlingit potlatch on Japonski Island off Sitka, Alaska
(Case & Draper 15-N)1906?Caption: Japonski Is. where the potlatchers were met and
feasted by Sitka natives.
1/312Boats and houses at Indian town of Hoonah, Alaska (Case
& Draper 89-N)1907? 1/313Shore at Indian Town of Hoonah, Alaska (Case &
Draper 92 - N)1907? 1/314Bird's-eye view of town of Skagway, Alaska, and port
(Case & Draper 670)1907? Ships1/415C.I.N. Co. steamerToledoand
crew in Turn Again Arm (Case & Draper 2396)May 2, 1906 1/416Two men in fur coats on the ice-covered steamer
Santa Clara, Jan. 21, 1906, in Juneau, Alaska
(Case & Draper 2402)1906 1/417Ice-covered lower deck of the steamer
Santa Clarain Juneau, Alaska (Case & Draper
2401)January 21, 1906 1/418P.C. Co. steamerSpokanein
front of Taku Glacier, Taku Inlet, Alaska (Case & Draper 2404)July 16, 1907 Automobile, trails, railway views1/519A man sitting in the first auto built in Alaska,
Skagway, Alaska1907?Caption: First automobile of Alaska, built at North West Light
& Power Co., Skagway, Alaska.
1/520Suspension bridge and tunnel at head of Placer Canyon,
along Alaska Central Railway (Case and Draper 63-N)1907? 1/521View of Lewis Lake, taken from the White Pass &
Yukon Route, Yukon Territory (Case & Draper 498)1907? 1/522aCamp #9, with Bartlett Glacier in the distance, Alaska
Central Railway (Case & Draper 83-N)1907?Original photo.
1/522bCamp #9, with Bartlett Glacier in the distance, Alaska
Central Railway (Case & Draper 83-N)1907?Same image as 22a. Possibly printed from original negative,
but printed in the late 1950's.
Alaska Mailing
Souvenirbetween 1898 and 1900? Folding souvenir mailer with nine views of Alaska and the Yukon.
Printed at bottom of photos: Photographs by Case & Drahen [sic] and H.C.
Barley, of Skagway, Alaska. Postmarks on the cover indicate that it was first
mailed October 18, 1904 from [illeg] in Skagway, Alaska, then mailed from
Juneau Alaska to Miss S Victoria Hampton [illeg] at 470A [illeg] Str in
Portland Oregon on October 22, 19[illeg.]. There is also a stamped date of Oct
18 1904 and "World's Fair" machine-stamped on the envelope.
1/623Cover of Alaska Mailing Souvenirbetween 1898 and 1900? 1/623aBird's-eye view of Skagway Alaskabetween 1898 and 1900?Caption on page: Skaguay, Alaska, the Gateway to the
Klondike.
1/623bMiles Canyon, Alaskabetween 1898 and 1900? 1/623cSmall boats in Whitehorse Rapids on Yukon River,
Alaskabetween 1898 and 1900?Caption on page: Shooting Whitehorse Rapids, Alaska.
1/623dPeople posing on flatbed train car in snowy
terrain.July 6, 1899Caption on page: First Passenger Train to reach Log Cabin July
6, '99 - White Pass & Yukon R.R.
1/623eView of Juneau, Alaska, and port, from the
waterbetween 1898 and 1900? 1/623fPeople posing outside locomotive on snowy
mountainside1900Caption on photo: First Passenger Train on the White Pass
& Yukon Route to the Summit
1/623gMusharankdorfotoo, the chief of the Chilkat
Indiansbetween 1898 and 1900?H.C. Barley, Skagway, Alaska 1/623hView of train crossing bridge over Lewis Lake,
Alaskabetween 1898 and 1900? White Pass & Yukon construction crews had accidentally
lowered the lake level about 50 feet, by cutting a new outlet through a sandy
ridge. The new outlet channel required two very large trestle bridges, which
were bypassed circa 1940. This is the northern one, which crossed what had been
a shallow arm of the lake.
1/623iStorefront of "Keelar, The Money King," a jewelry, pawn,
safe storage, and loan business in Skagway, Alaskabetween 1898 and 1900?Printed in bottom margin: Photographs by Case & Drahen
[sic] and H.C. Barley, of Skagway, Alaska.