WAUAlaskaYukonFilmPHColl1269.xml Guide to the Fred K. Ordway Alaska and the Yukon Film circa 1930s Ordway (Fred) Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mountaineers Foundation Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2015 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
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Finding aid written inEnglish. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections PH1269 Ordway, Frederick K. Fred K. Ordway Alaska and the Yukon film circa 1930s 1 reel (16 minutes, 500 feet) : print, silent, color ; 16mm Collection materials are inEnglish. Travelogue-style film following a trip from Seattle to Alaska and the Yukon Territory.

Frederick K. Ordway ("Alaska's Flying Photographer") and his wife, Laura P. Ordway, settled in Juneau around 1926. Fred Ordway worked as an electrician for Alaska Light and Power Co. for less than a year before opening Ordway's Photo Service (or Photo Shop) on Front Street. Laura Ordway was a photographer and writer employed by Alaska Line Steamship Co. and freelance writer/photographer for Popular Science, Alaskan Travel and other magazines and advertising companies. The Ordways traveled throughout Alaska in the 1930s, photographing Alaskan subjects. In 1934, Fred Ordway moved his expanding business into the Shattuck Building in Juneau and renamed it Ordway's Uptown Photo Shop. Fred Ordway died at the age of 35 on Feb. 17, 1938, from injuries he received when his rented monoplane crashed south of Oregon City, Oregon. He was photographing at the time. According to the Daily Alaskan Empire , his ashes were scattered over Mendenhall Valley in Juneau by pilot Joe Crosson.

Travelogue-style film that follows a trip by boat from Seattle, Washington to Skagway, Alaska. A number of the natural sights in the Skagway area visited, both by train and by paddleboat steamer. The group eventually reaches Canada's Yukon Territory, with visits to the following places: Whitehorse, the Yukon River, Dawson, Mount McKinley, Blanchard's Gardens, Pitchfork Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Dead Horse Gulch, Lake Linderman, Miles Canyon, and Stevens Village.

Frederick K. Ordway, photographer.

The original reel is unavailable due to preservation concerns. A viewing copy is available and arrangements can be made to watch the film by contacting Special Collections.

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The film was originally in the custody of The Mountaineers History Committee.

Donor: The Mountaineers, 2011.

Processed by Rebecca Harmsen, 2014 .

The film was transferred from The Mountaineers Films collection (PH Coll 1049), 2014.

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VC351 1 Alaska and the Yukon circa 1930s

Travelogue-style film that follows a trip by boat from Seattle, Washington to Skagway, Alaska. A number of the natural sights in the Skagway area visited, both by train and by paddleboat steamer. The group eventually reaches Canada's Yukon Territory, with visits to the following places: Whitehorse, the Yukon River, Dawson, Mount McKinley, Blanchard's Gardens, Pitchfork Falls, Brial Veil Falls, Dead Horse Gulch, Lake Linderman, Miles Canyon, and Stevens Village.

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1 reel (16 minutes, 500 feet) : print, silent, color ; 16mm