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Ralph E. MacKay Alaska photograph albums, approximately 1897-1949

Overview of the Collection

Collector
MacKay, Ralph E.
Title
Ralph E. MacKay Alaska photograph albums
Dates
approximately 1897-1949 (inclusive)
Quantity
21 albums (1723 photographic prints, 84 postcards, 21 gravure prints)
Collection Number
PH0413
Summary
Photograph albums depicting Alaska towns, industries, landscapes and people
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.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Ralph E. MacKay (1897-1980) worked as a miner and underground engineer, and was also an electrician on electric locomotives. He had a wide range of interests, which included collecting early photographs, books, rocks and minerals, and drawings of sailing vessels.

Source: Ralph E. MacKay collection, University of Alaska Fairbanks, https://archivescatalog.library.uaf.edu/public/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=en-US

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Content Description

21 albums containing 1,723 photographs, 84 postcards and 21 gravure prints depicting images of Alaska, 1897-1940s.

Three of the albums are devoted to Valdez, three albums to Nome, two albums to Iñupiat and Yupik people and Native Americans, one album to mining, two albums to ships; the rest are devoted to general subject matter concerning Alaska. Various localities noted: Nome, Sitka, Unalaska, Skagway, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Valdez, Kodiak, Ketchikan among others. The albums also represent activities and subjects such as whaling, canneries, dogsledding, packtrains, homesteading, mining including the Nome Gold Rush, hunting, Captain Roald Amundsen expedition, natural scenery, flora and fauna, and the Katmai Volcano eruption. Native Americans represented include Copper River Natives, Siwash, Nenena, Sitka, Stik, Yukon River, Yakutt, and Seldovia Indians. Photographers noted: Thwaites, Dobbs, Goetze, Hegg, Hunt, Lomen, Nowell, Cantwell, Merrill, Andrews, Case and Draper, Lomen, La Roche, Wilse, Winter and Pond, Partridge, and Wolfe.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in 22 series:

  • Album 1, Alaska, General, approximately 1906-1930s
  • Album 2, Alaska, General, 1897-1910
  • Album 3, Alaska, General, 1907-1915
  • Album 4, Alaska, General, 1898-1909
  • Album 5, Alaska, General, approximately 1906-1920
  • Album 6, Valdez, 1908-1911
  • Album 7, Valdez, 1905-1910
  • Album 8, Valdez, 1905-1910
  • Album 9, Nome, 1905-1907
  • Album 10, Nome, 1906
  • Album 11, Nome, 1901-1907
  • Album 12, Alaska, 1906-1940
  • Album 13, Alaska, 1899-1942
  • Album 14, Iñupiat people
  • Album 15, Siberia and Alaska
  • Album 16, [Untitlted Album], approximatelhy 1887-1940s
  • Album 17, Thwaites
  • Album 18, Album, approximately 1885-1950s
  • Album 19, Ships and tugs
  • Album 20, Ships (Puget Sound)
  • Album 21, Capt. Amundsen and party. Corwin relief expedition., approximately 1906-1920s
  • Loose Photographs

Acquisition Information

Donor: Gilbert A. Griffin; received in 1994.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Album 1: Alaska, General, approximately 1906-1930s

    54 photos, 9 postcards, 1 gravure

    Seldovia, Knik, Katmai Volcano eruption, Chignik, Perry Island, St. Michael's, Seward, Port Bailey, Petersburg, Fairbanks, Wrangell Narrows, Lynn Canal, Prince William Sound, cabins, glaciers, landscapes, dogsleds.

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Thwaites

  • Album 2: Alaska, General, 1897-1910

    52 photographs, 4 postcards, 9 gravures

    Sitka (1898-99), Chignik, Nome (1910), Skagway (cemetery, Canadian Police Headquarters), Kodiak, Unalaska, Fort William F. Seward, Metlakatla, Seldovia, Lynn Canal, glaciers, reindeer, moose, eagles. Also includes gravures by Nowell (Iñupiat people, mining, St. Michael's, Teller).

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Dobbs, Goetze, Hegg, Hunt, P.S., Lomen, Nowell

  • Album 3: Alaska, General, 1907-1915

    94 photos, 2 postcards

    Ketchikan, Wreck of the S.S. Mariposa (1915), Whaling at Port Armstrong, Mt. Katmai volcanic eruption 1912, Fairbanks-Valdez Trail, Anchorage, Metlakatla Cannery fire, Kasaan Cannery, Uyak Cannery, Carlisle Packing Co. Cannery, Cannery at Yakutat, U.S. Hatchery at Letnik, Chignik Cannery, Fairbanks-Valdez Stage, Skiing near Cordova

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Cantwell, George, Hunt, P.S., Hegg, Merrill, Thwaites.

  • Album 4: Alaska, General, 1898-1909

    Dogsleds, Sitka, Indian River, Juneau, Unalaska, packtrains.

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Andrews, C.L., Cantwell, George, Case and Draper, Hegg, Huey, H.H., Hunt, P.S. , Lomen, La Roche, Means, Sam.

  • Album 5: Alaska, General, approximately 1906-1920

    117 photographs

    Thompson Pass, roadhouses, cabins, camps, homesteading, sleds and packtrains, Tonsina, Cheschena, Gulkana, Keystone Canyon, Prince William Sound, Fidalgo Bay, Iliamno Bay, Iliamno Lake, Nushagak.

  • Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911

    61 photographs
    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Cantwell, George, Hunt, P.S., Thwaites.

    • Description: Valdez
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Summer's day. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Reflections. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: "Moonlight" Valdez Bay.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Cantwell 79
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Keystone Canon. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Cantwell 84
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Malamute dog. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G1233
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Alaska salmon berries.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G1500
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Valdez fire department.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G1897
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Mrs. J.C. Dieringer's garden. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G1965
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Mrs. J.C. Dieringer's garden. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G1966
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Single head of lettuce.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G1967
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Japanese seal poachers arriving at the jail, Valdez
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2009
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Looking back down the new Gov. trail, Thomson Pass. Feb 1909.
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2151
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Banquet tendered to the Alaska Road Commission
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2186
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Return of Jim the Bear Hunter. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2242
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Valdez Glacier. Hunt G2338: Valdez. c. 1909
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2247
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Looking up Keystone Ave., Valdez
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2505?
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Moose Hall, Valdez
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2556
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2622
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: On the private roof garden, Valdez
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2626
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: [Snow at Valdez]
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2657
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Caught at Valdez [Fish]
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2692
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Seward and Valdez basketball teams. Valdez. July 4, 1910.
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G2722
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: The Northern Lights. (Cantwell 126)
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G3148
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: T.V. Smith's catch. Middleton Island. [Blue fox]
      Dates: approximately 1909
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G3592
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Flower girls drill. Valdez Public School entertainment. May 12, 1911.
      Dates: 1911
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G3602
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: Heat, Horse race
      Dates: 1911
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt G3657
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911
    • Description: McKinley St., Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 6, Item Hunt P7
      Location: Album 6: Valdez, 1908-1911

  • Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910

    41 photographs
    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Cantwell, George, Hunt, P.S., Larson, L.C.

    • Description: Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: After the storm. Valdez. Feb 15, 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Orr stage leaving Valdez for Fairbanks
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Bridalveil Falls, Keystone Canon.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Prospectors cabin, Knights Island.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Cantwell 18
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Moonlight effect, Valdez Bay.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Cantwell 33
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: A typical winter trail stable
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt unnumbered
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Copper Mountain from head of Landlock Bay Narrows
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G216
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez and Fort Liscum from near the old third bench on Valdez Glacier
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G292(?)
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Keystone Falls on Gov. Trail, 15 miles from Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G445
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Camps at foot of Thomson Pass. Valdez-Fairbanks Trail.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G642
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: A little snow in Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G1203
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: A shower of the beautiful, Valdez. [snow]
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G1770 (?)
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Crevices in Valdez Glacier.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G1870
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Judge Reid and party leaving Valdez for Fairbanks on the "Orr" stage
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2112
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Looking back down the new Gov. trail, Thomson Pass. 1909.
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2151
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez Glacier.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2247
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: "Hang tree", Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2278
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2338
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Episcopal Sunday School. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2492
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: McKinley St. Valdez by electric light. c. 1910.
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2569
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Entering the gap on summit of Thomson Pass
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2599
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: On his private roof garden, Valdez
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2626
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Residence in Valdez
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2627
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2642
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Goddess of Liberty float. Valdez. 1910.
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2716
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2758
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2760
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Solomon's Gulch. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2976
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: The harbor by night.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2979
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Near Valdez Narrows
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G2985
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Falls of the Upper Chesnena River.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G3031
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: The Northern Lights photographed by moonlight.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G3147
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Harry Brown's dogteam, Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G3176
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: En route to Valdez from Fairbanks
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G3180
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez from Co. B. Millard's residence.
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G3673
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Portage Bay from the trail. Larson, L.C. unnumbered: [road house]
      Container: Album Album 7, Item Hunt G4195
      Location: Album 7: Valdez, 1905-1910

  • Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910

    43 photographs
    • Description: Latakia at night.
      Container: Album Album 8
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez sunset
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Grand jury. Oct. 1908 term of court. Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Cantwell unnumbered
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Freighting near Icy Point, Thompson's Pass.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Cantwell 106
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Mountain Lake, Knights Island.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Cantwell 133
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Columbia Glacier
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G877
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Suspension bridge no. 1 across the glacier streams near Valdez. 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G974
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Sea lions on Seal Rocks near Seward.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G1269
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Camps at foot of Thomson Pass on the new Gov
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2148
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Wortmans Road House. 19 miles from Valdez on Valdez-Fairbanks wagon road
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2346
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Looking down south side of Thomson Pass showing dutch flats and wagon road.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2350
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Ptarmigan Drop Road House at foot of Thomson Pass, North side Valdez-Fairbanks Wagon Road.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2362
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Looking down the Valdez Fairbanks Wagon Road grade to the old Saina River bridge showing section of road below the bridge.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2373
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Teikhell Road House, Valdez Fairbanks Wagon Road.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2395
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: New Camp Comfort on Valdez Fairbanks Wagon Road
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2494
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Summit Road House and Freight Caches, Thomson Pass
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2601
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: A Summer's day, Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2965
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Solomans Gulch
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2974
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Upper Falls, Solomans Gulch
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2975
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: The harbor by night
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2979
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Signs and spring, Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2982
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Midsummer, Valdez Bay.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2984
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Near Valdez Narrows
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2985
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Along the Alaskan Coast
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G2986
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Drier Bay, Knights Island
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3000
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: A Mountain lake, Knights Island
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3025
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Orr and Co. Stage, Keystone Canon.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3252
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: A trail stable
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3308
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Looking down the upper flat from near summit of Thomson Pass.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3354
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Camps at head of pack trail
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3454
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Valdez Bay, Valdez Narrows, Prince William Sound and Montague Island.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3458
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Re-torted amalgum, Cliff Mine, Valdez.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3614
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Mineral Creek Road House. Robert McIntosh Prop.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3688
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Child's Glacier
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3702
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Face of Childs Glacier
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. G3703
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Upper falls and canyon, Solomans Gulch.
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. H77
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910
    • Description: Keystone Canyon and Falls
      Container: Album Album 8, Item Hunt, P.S. H100
      Location: Album 8: Valdez, 1905-1910

  • Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907

    48 photographs
    • Description: Capt. Henry Finch prospecting for gold under six feet of ice in submarine armor. Nome. Winter 1905-1906.
      Dates: 1905-1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: [Dog sled]
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Fink and Smith returning from Polar Bear hunt in the Arctic
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Dog team in front of Nowell Studio and Post Office.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Bird's-eye view of Unalaska
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Three Friends Mining Co
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4512
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Three Friends Mining Co.'s dredge and tailing pile
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4513
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: "Big Hurrah" Creek, Solomon, Alaska. Nowell 4523: Automobile road under construction around Cape Nome, Alaska Oct. 2nd, 1905.
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4521
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Ferry at Port Safety, Alaska
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4536
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: J.A. Swartsell putting up 1500 tons of ice on Snake River. Nome. Nov. 17, 1905.
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4569
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: W.J. Rowe moving house with 20 horse teams. Nome. Dec. 16, 1905.
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4576
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: M.L.V. Smith arriving with mail from Unalakleet at Nome Post Office. Dec. 16, 1905.
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4578
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: [Dog sled]
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4580
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: [Dog sled]
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4582
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: [Dog sled]
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4581
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Mail dog steam outside of Nome.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Sunset at Nome
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4594
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Winter dumps on claims on Little Creek owned by J.C. Brown. Feb. 22nd 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4600
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Excursion party on Bering Sea one mile from Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4606
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: W.J. Rowe Transfer teams hauling coal to Little Creek for Berger and Anderson. Nome. Feb. 26th 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4610
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: W.J. Rowe Transfer teams.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4611
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: W.J. Rowe Transfer teams hauling John J. Sesnon Co. coal to Creeks, Nome.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4613
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: W.J. Rowe Transfer teams hauling Northwestern Commercial Co. coal to Creeks, Nome.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4614
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: W. J. Rowe Transfer Team moving oil tank for John J. Sesnon Co., Electric Light Plant.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4631
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Capt. Henry Finch at work in diving apparatus dredging for gold under six feet of ice in Bering Sea. Nome. Winter 1905-1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4652
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Mail dog team resting after a long trip.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4665
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Winter dumps, Little Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4668
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: U.S. Life Saving Station, Nome. Apr. 3, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4674
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: U.S. Mail team waiting for the outside mail. Nome. Apr. 13th, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4680
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Dog sled
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4683
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Dog sled
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4685
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Dog sled
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4688
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Major John S. Copley and wife, Nome. Apr. 5, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4690
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Fink and Smith returning from Polar bear hunt in the Arctic. Distance traveled 1000 miles.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4691
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: S.P. ? Sunday's excursion on Bering Sea. Apr. 8, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4702
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Stake No. 2 being N.W. cor. Discovery on Wonder Creek, Nome. Apr. 13th 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4708
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Horse drawn sled

      Caption on image: How would you like to be the ice man?

      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4718
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Carson Gold Mining Co. property. Apr. 22, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4723
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Initial stake xxx Fraction, also S.W. cor. Chestnut Fraction
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4729
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: S Mo. 3 xxx Fraction S.E. cor. No. 8 Cooper Gulch. Nowell 4733: S. No. 4 xxx Fraction at the N.E. cor. No. 8 Cooper Gulch
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4732
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: S.W. cor. xxx Fraction at the S.E. cor. No. 8 Cooper Gulch.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4734
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: N.W. cor. Chestnut Fraction.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4737
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: There's always something doing
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4739
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Thompson and Nowell at Little Creek Roadhouse.
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4741
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Winter scene. Nome. 1905-1906.
      Dates: 1905-1906
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 4771
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907
    • Description: Cascade Mining Co.'s ditch. Taylor Creek. Aug 18th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 9, Item Nowell 5712
      Location: Album 9: Nome, 1905-1907

  • Album 10: Nome, 1906

    47 photographs
    • Description: Surf Nome.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: [Dog sled]
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Miners who left for Kobuk River on Str. John Reily. 1903.
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 114
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome in the distance
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Unidentified
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4519
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Pilgrim Congregational Church, Nome
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4742
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Sunday excursion to Little Creek showing dumps of Berger and Anderson
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4744
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps of Malengren and Co. Little Creek, Nome. 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4745
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4746
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Sunday excursion to Little Creek showing Berger and Anderson's winter dumps
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4754
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: T.J. Nestor's teams leaving Nome for Candle City. 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4756
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Fink's dog team.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4769
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4770
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: W.J. Rowe Transfer team.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4772
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps on No. 8 Cooper Gulch, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4774
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Attorneys Brunes and Gilnore. Little Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4775
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Daisy Mine. Winter dump on Nickola Gulch, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4781
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps on No. 3 above Dry Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4784
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: N.P.R. Hatch's? camp No. 3 above on Dry Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4785
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dump taken out by Ashley and Adams on the "Honey" Mine, Dexter Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4786
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps on Portland Bench operated by Pioneer Mining Co., Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4789
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dumps of Berger and Anderson on Little Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4790
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Pioneer Mining Co.'s dump on Little Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4791
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Large dump on Portland, little dump on Discovery, Little Creek operated by Pioneer Mining Co.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4793
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Four Cornered Bench claim, Little Creek owned by P.D
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4794
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: The All Mine operated by Pioneer Mining Co., Little Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4795
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dump of J.C. Brown on Little Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4796
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Winter dump of J.C. Brown on Little Creek, Nome. Apr. 22 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4797
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Traveling on skis at 30 miles per hour. [Man with sail]
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4810
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: L Claim, right limit, Dry Creek, second tier, Mone
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4830
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: "28,000 cleanup on the "Bessie Mine" operated by Bard, Nixon & Denhart, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4831
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Judge S.C. Henton and H.H. Devies leaving Nome for Teller. May 20 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4835
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: "1,000,000 in gold bricks part of Winters cleanup purchased by the Alaska Bank and Safe Deposit Co., Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4926
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Carstens Bros. and Dashley Bldg., Nome.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4932
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: The Dawn of civilization.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4939
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Roadhouse on Glacier Creek, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4958
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: A.F. Guinan mining on Glacier Creek. July 14th 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4964
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Glacier Creek showing Kimball and Gilmore Camp on hill also Utica Claim on Glacier Creek..
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4969
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Kimball and Gilmore Camp on Glacier Creek
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4970
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Hot Air Ditch showing flume across Rock Creek owned by Kimball and Gilmore, Nome
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 4972
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: John J. Sesnon Co. measuring oil, Nome. Sept. 6th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 5717
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Interior of John J. Sesnon Co.'s Office, Nome.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 5900
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906
    • Description: Interior of John J. Sesnon Co.'s office, Nome.
      Container: Album Album 10, Item Nowell 5901
      Location: Album 10: Nome, 1906

  • Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907

    79 photographs, 1 gravure
    • Description: Bird's-eye view of Nome from Lane's Derick.
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Nome wharf from barracks square.
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Little Diomede Island showing Iñupiat Village.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Diomede Islands
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: [Ship caught in ice]
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Surf at Nome
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Nome's reception to Gov. Hoggatt. July 28 1906.
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Ice jam Sesnon Dock, Nome
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Effect of the ice pack Nome Dock
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Ice jam Sesnon Dock, Nome
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Ice jam destroys part of Nome Dock
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Bob Griffis U.S. Mail Carrier one mile in front of Nome on Bering Sea
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Scotty Allen and his famous huskies on Bering Sea
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Council City showing Neukluk River
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: General offices John J. Sesnon.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Kings Island natives, Dickson, Alaska
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs 31
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Loading passengers for S.S. St. Paul Sesnon Lightering Co., Nome.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs 121
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: St. Michael, Alaska
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs 505
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: On board Capt. Amundsen ? sloop Gjoa, Nome Roadstead.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs 787
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Bering Sea after storm at Nome
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Dobbs 836
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: First wharf at Nome
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Goetze unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Main street, Nome
      Dates: approximately 1901
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Goetze unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: [The Sourdough]
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Goetze A503
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: In the far north 1 mile out on Bering Sea
      Dates: 1901
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Goetze A627
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Moonlight on Bering Sea
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Huey unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Nome, Alaska in the good old summertime.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Huey unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Nome River Valley
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Lomen unnumbered
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Ice hummocks on Bering Sea
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Lomen 796
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Blackchief Bluff near Bluff City
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Lomen 811
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Landing at Nome.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Lomen 884
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: King Island Village, Alaska
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Lomen 972
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Mid-day sun Dec. 21st, Nome.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Lomen 1169
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Sesmon Lightering Freight at Nome
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 24
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Landing passengers from S.S. Umatilla. July 7th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5439-C
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: John J. Sesnon's Lightering Co.'s cable way for landing freight at Nome. 1907
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5492
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: East Cape, Siberia
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5510
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Passengers lightering aboard S.S. Victoria for Seattle and the outside, Nome. Aug 3rd 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5547
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Election Day, Nome
      Dates: 1902
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 582?
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: John J. Sesnon Co. coal pile, Nome. Oct. 17 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5860
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: John J. Sesnon Co.'s cable way unloading grain. 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5890
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Dwelling house belonging to the oil plant of the John J. Sesnon Co., Nome.
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5905
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Last lighter leaving Nome for S.S. Dineric. Oct. 28th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5921
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Landing reindeer aboard lighter from John J. Sesnon's Cableway for S.S. Duneric, Nome. Oct. 28th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5922
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Loading reindeer on lighter from John J. Sesnon Co.'s cableway for S.S. Duneric, Nome. Oct. 28th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5923
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907
    • Description: Reindeer of John J. Sesnon Co.'s docks, Nome. Oct. 28th 1907.
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Album Album 11, Item Nowell 5924
      Location: Album 11: Nome, 1901-1907

  • Album 12: Alaska, 1906-1940

    235 photographs, 16 postcards

    Mt. Shilshaldin, Nome, Nome Storm of 1913, Iñupiat people, reindeer, walrus, dogsleds and dogsled competition, John J. Sesnon Co. (Nome).

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Lomen Bros, Dobbs. O.D. Goetze

  • Album 13: Alaska, 1899-1942

    38 photographs, 76 postcards

    Iñupiat people, gold mining activities, Nome, Nome Gold Rush, Nome Storm of 1913, Kotzebue, Kodiak, Afognak Island, Kings Island

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Lomen Bros. Winter and Pond, Jacobs,

  • Album 14:  Iñupiat people

    65 photographs
    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Lomen Bros. Dobbs, Nowell

    • Description: Iñupiat Salmon Dance, Nook, Alaska.
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: Iñupiat women and "Mickanninnys Nook", Teller.
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: Iñupiat women showing their manner of carrying their young, Cape Prince of Wales.
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: "Nawadluk" (Nowadluk Nora Ootenna)
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: Iñupiat skin boat or "Omiak", Grantley Harbor.
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: "Mickaninies Kow-Kow"
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell unnumbered
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: The most Northerly Public School House in the United States, Cape Prince of Wales.
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell 29
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: Iñupiat girls with reindeer at Teller
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell 38
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people
    • Description: Possibly Yupik Village, Graphita Bay, Siberia.
      Container: Album Album 14, Item Nowell 1185
      Location: Album 14:  Iñupiat people

  • Album 15: Siberia and Alaska

    61 photographs

    Siberian Yupik people (esp. East Cape Siberia) , Capt. Joe Barnard on schooner "Teddy Bear" off Siberian coast (1922), C. W. Scarborough and photography equipment on ice floe, Unga, Chickaloon, walrus, Alaska scenery.

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: C.W. Scarborough, Billett.

  • Album 16: [Untitlted Album], approximately 1887-1940s

    131 photographs, 6 gravures, 26 postcards

    Tsimpshan, Copper River Natives, Siwash Indians, Nenana Indians, Sitka, Stik Indians, Yukon River Indians, Yakutat Indians, Seldovia Indians, Atlin, B.C., Native art and totem poles at Prince Rupert, Kasaan, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Kake Village, Howkan, Alert Bay, B.C.

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Nowell, Lomen Bros. Johnson, Scarborough, Case and Draper

  • Album 17: Thwaites

    222 photographs

  • Album 18: Album, approximately 1885-1950s

    108 photographs, 20 postcards

    Mining. Montana, Hyder (Premiere Mining Co.), Douglas Island (Treadwell Mine), Silver Bow Basin (Alaska Perseverance Mine), Latouche (Kennecott Mine), Bonanza Mine, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, British Columbia, Colorado, California, Utah. Mining equipment.

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Winter and Pond, Case and Draper, Thwaites,

  • Album 19: Ships and tugs

    14 photographs
    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Thwaites.

  • Album 20: Ships (Puget Sound)

    16 photographs

    "Alice Gertrude", "S.S. State of Washington", "S.S. Skagit Chief", "Flyer", "Evangel", "Holyoke", "S.S. Garland", "Geo. E. Starr", "Adams", "S.S. Lake Washington", "Adams".

  • Album 21: Capt. Amundsen and party. Corwin relief expedition., approximately 1906-1920s

    36 photographs, 1 gravure

    Some photographs from the Glenbow Foundation. (1920s?). Alaska bush planes and pilots. President Warren Harding's visit to Alaska, 1923.

    Other Descriptive Information

    Photographers noted: Nowell, Wolfe.

  • Loose Photographs

    • Description: Loose photographs

      • black and white mounted photograph of ship "San Juan," undated
      • black and white mounted photograph of Hotel Royal, Monte Cristo, undated
      • black and white photograph of Transandean Ry., Chile. 1923.
      • black and white photograph of 3 unidentified men.
      • black and white photograph of ship "Victoria". (Probably from an album)
      • black and white contact print of Chilkoot River fish traps?

      Location: Loose Photographs

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