WAUMacKayRobertPHColl413.xmlPreliminary guide to the Ralph E. MacKay Alaska Photograph Albums approximately 1897-1949MacKay (Ralph E.) Alaska Photograph AlbumsSpecial Collections, University of Washington Libraries©2008 (Last modified: 7/9/2025)
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Finding aid written in English.Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0413MacKay, Ralph E.Ralph E. MacKay Alaska photograph albumsapproximately 1897-194921 albums (1723 photographic prints, 84 postcards, 21 gravure prints)Collection materials are in EnglishPhotograph albums depicting Alaska towns, industries, landscapes and people

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

Arranged in 22 series:

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

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.

The collection is open to the public.

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Donor: Gilbert A. Griffin; received in 1994.

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Album 1Alaska, Generalapproximately 1906-1930s54 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.

Photographers noted: Thwaites

Album 154 photos, 9 postcards, 1 gravureapproximately 1906-1930sAlbum 2Alaska, General1897-191052 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).

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

Album 2Dobbs unnumberedNomeAlbum 2Dobbs unnumberedPtarmiganAlbum 2Goetze unnumberedParade of Fourth of July, 1901. Nome1901Album 2Goetze unnumberedSteadman Avenue, NomeAlbum 2Hegg 1444Moonlight on Bering Sea1901Album 2Hunt unnumberedKodiak, AlaskaAlbum 2Hunt unnumberedU.S. Jail, UngaAlbum 2Hunt unnumberedRussian Mission, KodiakAlbum 2Lomen unnumberedLargest dray ever constructed in Alaska. Built for Pioneer Mining Co., NomeAlbum 2Lomen 913OolikAlbum 2Nowell unnumberedIñupiat women and childrenAlbum 3Alaska, General1907-191594 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

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

Album 3Cantwell unnumberedPanorama of Mt. Drum, Mt. Sanford, Mt. Wrangle. 19071907Album 3Hegg 519Chitina Fairbanks RoadAlbum 3Hunt G719Mt. Drum, Mt. Sanford, Mt. Wrangle from hill south of TonsinaAlbum 3Hunt G1281J.A. Herbert's wharf, SeldoviaAlbum 3Hunt G1337Rock on which a whole tribe of natives was exterminated near UngaAlbum 3Hunt G2438Sunset, Copper Ctr., Alaska.Album 3Hunt G2441U.S. Telegraph Station at Copper Ctr.Album 3Hunt G2449John McCrary's sawmill, Copper Ctr, AlaskaAlbum 3Hunt G2455Wheat field at Gov. Exp. Station, Copper Ctr.Album 3Hunt G3832Stock ranch, Kodiak covered with 16 in. ashes from Katmai Volcano. June 23, 1912.1912Album 3Merrill 371View looking Easterly, head of Silver BayAlbum 3Merrill 371AView looking Northerly, interior of Baronoff Island.Album 3Merrill 371BView looking Easterly, Silver Bay.Album 3Merrill unnumberedMt. EdgecombAlbum 3Merrill unnumberedSitkaAlbum 4Alaska, General1898-1909

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

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

Album 4Andrews 5Mountains above Sitka from Baranoff Hill1898Album 4Andrews 6Looking over Sitka Sound from Baranoff Hill1898Album 4Andrews 30Redoubt Lake near Sitka, Alaska.Album 4Andrews 33McNair residence, Sitka.Album 4Andrews 34Mountains in interior of Baranoff Island.Album 4Andrews 36Arrowhead on VestoviaAlbum 4Andrews unnumberedSunrise on Middle lakeAlbum 4Andrews unnumberedMountain goat about 10 days old1901Album 4C&M. In the ice field of St. Michael, Alaska. 2-17-19091909Album 4C&M Dog town of Ft. St. Michael, Alaska. 2-20-1909.1909Album 4Cantwell 22Whipsawing - A hard craft.Album 4Case and Draper unnumberedSitka1906Album 4Case and Draper unnumberedJuneau1908Album 4Case and Draper unnumberedKetchikan1905Album 4Case and Draper 659SkagwayAlbum 4Hegg unnumberedYukoners in the Klondike Vale.Album 4Huey unnumberedMidnight sun, St. Michael harbor. 19081908Album 4Huey unnumberedD. Co. 3rd U.S. Inf., Fort Davis, Alaska.Album 4Hunt G899Columbia GlacierAlbum 4Hunt G1037Columbia Glacier, Prince William SoundAlbum 4Hunt G1257Fourth Ave., Seward.Album 4Hunt G1312Making cans in Northwestern Fisheries Co.'s salmon cannery at UyakAlbum 4Hunt G1409Interior Russian church, Nushagak.Album 4Hunt G1980Among the Islands at the head of Unakwik Bay.Album 4Hunt G2381Looking down into Saina Canyon ElbowAlbum 4Hunt G2456Garden at Tonsina Road House, Valdez-Fairbanks RoadAlbum 4Hunt G4162Panorama of Ship CreekAlbum 4La Roche 196Glacier Bay from top of glacierAlbum 4La Roche 1108Greek Church, Sitka. Album 4La Roche 1267Treadwell Mine.Album 4La Roche 1268Windom and Takou GlaciersAlbum 4Lomen 1077Taku InletAlbum 4Means, SamMcKinley1908Album 5Alaska, Generalapproximately 1906-1920117 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 5117 photographsapproximately 1906-1920Album 6Valdez1908-191161 photographs

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

Album 6Cantwell unnumberedValdez1909Album 6Cantwell unnumberedSummer's day. Valdez.Album 6Cantwell unnumberedReflections. Valdez.Album 6Cantwell 79"Moonlight" Valdez Bay.Album 6Cantwell 84Keystone Canon. Valdez.Album 6Hunt G1233Malamute dog. Valdez.Album 6Hunt G1500Alaska salmon berries.Album 6Hunt G1897Valdez fire department.Album 6Hunt G1965Mrs. J.C. Dieringer's garden. Valdez.Album 6Hunt G1966Mrs. J.C. Dieringer's garden. Valdez.Album 6Hunt G1967Single head of lettuce.Album 6Hunt G2009Japanese seal poachers arriving at the jail, Valdez1908Album 6Hunt G2151Looking back down the new Gov. trail, Thomson Pass. Feb 1909.1909Album 6Hunt G2186Banquet tendered to the Alaska Road Commission1909Album 6Hunt G2242Return of Jim the Bear Hunter. Valdez.Album 6Hunt G2247Valdez Glacier. Hunt G2338: Valdez. c. 19091909Album 6Hunt G2505? Looking up Keystone Ave., Valdez1910Album 6Hunt G2556Moose Hall, Valdez1909Album 6Hunt G2622Valdez.Album 6Hunt G2626On the private roof garden, Valdez1910Album 6Hunt G2657[Snow at Valdez]Album 6Hunt G2692Caught at Valdez [Fish]Album 6Hunt G2722Seward and Valdez basketball teams. Valdez. July 4, 1910.1910Album 6Hunt G3148The Northern Lights. (Cantwell 126)1909Album 6Hunt G3592T.V. Smith's catch. Middleton Island. [Blue fox]approximately 1909Album 6Hunt G3602Flower girls drill. Valdez Public School entertainment. May 12, 1911.1911Album 6Hunt G3657Heat, Horse race1911Album 6Hunt P7McKinley St., Valdez.Album 7Valdez1905-191041 photographs

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

Album 7Cantwell unnumberedValdez.Album 7Cantwell unnumberedAfter the storm. Valdez. Feb 15, 1907.1907Album 7Cantwell unnumberedOrr stage leaving Valdez for Fairbanks1908Album 7Cantwell unnumberedBridalveil Falls, Keystone Canon.Album 7Cantwell 18Prospectors cabin, Knights Island.Album 7Cantwell 33Moonlight effect, Valdez Bay.Album 7Hunt unnumberedA typical winter trail stableAlbum 7Hunt G216Copper Mountain from head of Landlock Bay Narrows1905Album 7Hunt G292(?)Valdez and Fort Liscum from near the old third bench on Valdez Glacier1905Album 7Hunt G445Keystone Falls on Gov. Trail, 15 miles from Valdez.Album 7Hunt G642Camps at foot of Thomson Pass. Valdez-Fairbanks Trail.Album 7Hunt G1203A little snow in Valdez.Album 7Hunt G1770 (?)A shower of the beautiful, Valdez. [snow]Album 7Hunt G1870Crevices in Valdez Glacier.Album 7Hunt G2112Judge Reid and party leaving Valdez for Fairbanks on the "Orr" stage1908Album 7Hunt G2151Looking back down the new Gov. trail, Thomson Pass. 1909.1909Album 7Hunt G2247Valdez Glacier.Album 7Hunt G2278"Hang tree", Valdez.Album 7Hunt G2338Valdez1909Album 7Hunt G2492Episcopal Sunday School. Valdez.Album 7Hunt G2569McKinley St. Valdez by electric light. c. 1910.1910Album 7Hunt G2599Entering the gap on summit of Thomson PassAlbum 7Hunt G2626On his private roof garden, Valdez1910Album 7Hunt G2627Residence in Valdez1910Album 7Hunt G2642Valdez.Album 7Hunt G2716Goddess of Liberty float. Valdez. 1910.1910Album 7Hunt G2758Valdez.Album 7Hunt G2760Valdez.Album 7Hunt G2976Solomon's Gulch. Valdez.Album 7Hunt G2979The harbor by night.Album 7Hunt G2985Near Valdez NarrowsAlbum 7Hunt G3031Falls of the Upper Chesnena River.Album 7Hunt G3147The Northern Lights photographed by moonlight.Album 7Hunt G3176Harry Brown's dogteam, Valdez.Album 7Hunt G3180En route to Valdez from FairbanksAlbum 7Hunt G3673Valdez from Co. B. Millard's residence.Album 7Hunt G4195Portage Bay from the trail. Larson, L.C. unnumbered: [road house]Album 8Valdez1905-191043 photographsAlbum 8Latakia at night.Album 8Cantwell unnumberedValdez sunsetAlbum 8Cantwell unnumberedGrand jury. Oct. 1908 term of court. Valdez.Album 8Cantwell 106Freighting near Icy Point, Thompson's Pass.Album 8Cantwell 133Mountain Lake, Knights Island.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G877Columbia GlacierAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G974Suspension bridge no. 1 across the glacier streams near Valdez. 1906.1906Album 8Hunt, P.S. G1269Sea lions on Seal Rocks near Seward.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2148Camps at foot of Thomson Pass on the new GovAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2346Wortmans Road House. 19 miles from Valdez on Valdez-Fairbanks wagon roadAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2350Looking down south side of Thomson Pass showing dutch flats and wagon road.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2362Ptarmigan Drop Road House at foot of Thomson Pass, North side Valdez-Fairbanks Wagon Road.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2373Looking down the Valdez Fairbanks Wagon Road grade to the old Saina River bridge showing section of road below the bridge.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2395Teikhell Road House, Valdez Fairbanks Wagon Road.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2494New Camp Comfort on Valdez Fairbanks Wagon RoadAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2601Summit Road House and Freight Caches, Thomson PassAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2965A Summer's day, Valdez.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2974Solomans GulchAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2975Upper Falls, Solomans GulchAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2979The harbor by nightAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2982Signs and spring, Valdez.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2984Midsummer, Valdez Bay.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G2985Near Valdez NarrowsAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G2986Along the Alaskan CoastAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G3000Drier Bay, Knights IslandAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G3025A Mountain lake, Knights IslandAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G3252Orr and Co. Stage, Keystone Canon.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G3308A trail stableAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G3354Looking down the upper flat from near summit of Thomson Pass.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G3454Camps at head of pack trailAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G3458Valdez Bay, Valdez Narrows, Prince William Sound and Montague Island.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G3614Re-torted amalgum, Cliff Mine, Valdez.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G3688Mineral Creek Road House. Robert McIntosh Prop.Album 8Hunt, P.S. G3702Child's GlacierAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. G3703Face of Childs GlacierAlbum 8Hunt, P.S. H77Upper falls and canyon, Solomans Gulch.Album 8Hunt, P.S. H100Keystone Canyon and FallsAlbum 9Nome1905-190748 photographsAlbum 9Nowell unnumberedCapt. Henry Finch prospecting for gold under six feet of ice in submarine armor. Nome. Winter 1905-1906.1905-1906Album 9Nowell unnumbered[Dog sled]Album 9Nowell unnumberedFink and Smith returning from Polar Bear hunt in the Arctic 1906Album 9Nowell unnumberedDog team in front of Nowell Studio and Post Office.Album 9Nowell unnumberedBird's-eye view of UnalaskaAlbum 9Nowell 4512Three Friends Mining Co1905Album 9Nowell 4513Three Friends Mining Co.'s dredge and tailing pile1905Album 9Nowell 4521"Big Hurrah" Creek, Solomon, Alaska. Nowell 4523: Automobile road under construction around Cape Nome, Alaska Oct. 2nd, 1905.1905Album 9Nowell 4536Ferry at Port Safety, Alaska1905Album 9Nowell 4569J.A. Swartsell putting up 1500 tons of ice on Snake River. Nome. Nov. 17, 1905.1905Album 9Nowell 4576W.J. Rowe moving house with 20 horse teams. Nome. Dec. 16, 1905.1905Album 9Nowell 4578M.L.V. Smith arriving with mail from Unalakleet at Nome Post Office. Dec. 16, 1905.1905Album 9Nowell 4580[Dog sled]Album 9Nowell 4582[Dog sled] Album 9Nowell 4581[Dog sled] Album 9Nowell unnumberedMail dog steam outside of Nome.Album 9Nowell 4594Sunset at Nome1905Album 9Nowell 4600Winter dumps on claims on Little Creek owned by J.C. Brown. Feb. 22nd 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4606Excursion party on Bering Sea one mile from Nome1906Album 9Nowell 4610W.J. Rowe Transfer teams hauling coal to Little Creek for Berger and Anderson. Nome. Feb. 26th 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4611W.J. Rowe Transfer teams.Album 9Nowell 4613W.J. Rowe Transfer teams hauling John J. Sesnon Co. coal to Creeks, Nome.Album 9Nowell 4614W.J. Rowe Transfer teams hauling Northwestern Commercial Co. coal to Creeks, Nome.Album 9Nowell 4631W. J. Rowe Transfer Team moving oil tank for John J. Sesnon Co., Electric Light Plant.Album 9Nowell 4652Capt. Henry Finch at work in diving apparatus dredging for gold under six feet of ice in Bering Sea. Nome. Winter 1905-1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4665Mail dog team resting after a long trip.Album 9Nowell 4668Winter dumps, Little Creek, Nome1906Album 9Nowell 4674U.S. Life Saving Station, Nome. Apr. 3, 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4680U.S. Mail team waiting for the outside mail. Nome. Apr. 13th, 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4683Dog sledAlbum 9Nowell 4685Dog sledAlbum 9Nowell 4688Dog sledAlbum 9Nowell 4690Major John S. Copley and wife, Nome. Apr. 5, 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4691Fink and Smith returning from Polar bear hunt in the Arctic. Distance traveled 1000 miles.Album 9Nowell 4702S.P. ? Sunday's excursion on Bering Sea. Apr. 8, 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4708Stake No. 2 being N.W. cor. Discovery on Wonder Creek, Nome. Apr. 13th 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4718Horse drawn sled

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

Album 9Nowell 4723Carson Gold Mining Co. property. Apr. 22, 1906.1906Album 9Nowell 4729Initial stake xxx Fraction, also S.W. cor. Chestnut FractionAlbum 9Nowell 4732S 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 GulchAlbum 9Nowell 4734S.W. cor. xxx Fraction at the S.E. cor. No. 8 Cooper Gulch.Album 9Nowell 4737N.W. cor. Chestnut Fraction.Album 9Nowell 4739There's always something doing1906Album 9Nowell 4741Thompson and Nowell at Little Creek Roadhouse.Album 9Nowell 4771Winter scene. Nome. 1905-1906.1905-1906Album 9Nowell 5712Cascade Mining Co.'s ditch. Taylor Creek. Aug 18th 1907.1907Album 10Nome190647 photographsAlbum 10Nowell unnumberedSurf Nome.Album 10Nowell unnumbered[Dog sled]Album 10Nowell 114Miners who left for Kobuk River on Str. John Reily. 1903.1903Album 10Nowell unnumberedWinter dumps on Little Creek, Nome in the distance1906Album 10Nowell 4519UnidentifiedAlbum 10Nowell 4742Pilgrim Congregational Church, NomeAlbum 10Nowell 4744Sunday excursion to Little Creek showing dumps of Berger and Anderson1906Album 10Nowell 4745Winter dumps of Malengren and Co. Little Creek, Nome. 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4746Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4754Sunday excursion to Little Creek showing Berger and Anderson's winter dumps1906Album 10Nowell 4756T.J. Nestor's teams leaving Nome for Candle City. 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4769Fink's dog team.Album 10Nowell 4770Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4772W.J. Rowe Transfer team.Album 10Nowell 4774Winter dumps on No. 8 Cooper Gulch, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4775Attorneys Brunes and Gilnore. Little Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 19061906Album 10Nowell 4781Daisy Mine. Winter dump on Nickola Gulch, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4784Winter dumps on No. 3 above Dry Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.Album 10Nowell 4785N.P.R. Hatch's? camp No. 3 above on Dry Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4786Winter dump taken out by Ashley and Adams on the "Honey" Mine, Dexter Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4789Winter dumps on Portland Bench operated by Pioneer Mining Co., Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4790Winter dumps of Berger and Anderson on Little Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4791Pioneer Mining Co.'s dump on Little Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4793Large dump on Portland, little dump on Discovery, Little Creek operated by Pioneer Mining Co.Album 10Nowell 4794Four Cornered Bench claim, Little Creek owned by P.D1906Album 10Nowell 4795The All Mine operated by Pioneer Mining Co., Little Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4796Winter dump of J.C. Brown on Little Creek, Nome. Apr. 22, 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4797Winter dump of J.C. Brown on Little Creek, Nome. Apr. 22 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4810Traveling on skis at 30 miles per hour. [Man with sail]Album 10Nowell 4830L Claim, right limit, Dry Creek, second tier, Mone1906Album 10Nowell 4831"28,000 cleanup on the "Bessie Mine" operated by Bard, Nixon & Denhart, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4835Judge S.C. Henton and H.H. Devies leaving Nome for Teller. May 20 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4926"1,000,000 in gold bricks part of Winters cleanup purchased by the Alaska Bank and Safe Deposit Co., Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4932Carstens Bros. and Dashley Bldg., Nome.Album 10Nowell 4939The Dawn of civilization.Album 10Nowell 4958Roadhouse on Glacier Creek, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 4964A.F. Guinan mining on Glacier Creek. July 14th 1906.1906Album 10Nowell 4969Glacier Creek showing Kimball and Gilmore Camp on hill also Utica Claim on Glacier Creek.. Album 10Nowell 4970Kimball and Gilmore Camp on Glacier Creek1906Album 10Nowell 4972Hot Air Ditch showing flume across Rock Creek owned by Kimball and Gilmore, Nome1906Album 10Nowell 5717John J. Sesnon Co. measuring oil, Nome. Sept. 6th 1907.1907Album 10Nowell 5900Interior of John J. Sesnon Co.'s Office, Nome.Album 10Nowell 5901Interior of John J. Sesnon Co.'s office, Nome.Album 11Nome1901-190779 photographs, 1 gravureAlbum 11Dobbs unnumberedBird's-eye view of Nome from Lane's Derick.1903Album 11Dobbs unnumberedNome wharf from barracks square.1905Album 11Dobbs unnumberedLittle Diomede Island showing Iñupiat Village.Album 11Dobbs unnumberedDiomede IslandsAlbum 11Dobbs unnumbered[Ship caught in ice]Album 11Dobbs unnumberedSurf at NomeAlbum 11Dobbs unnumberedNome's reception to Gov. Hoggatt. July 28 1906.1906Album 11Dobbs unnumberedIce jam Sesnon Dock, Nome1907Album 11Dobbs unnumberedEffect of the ice pack Nome Dock1907Album 11Dobbs unnumberedIce jam Sesnon Dock, Nome1907Album 11Dobbs unnumberedIce jam destroys part of Nome Dock1907Album 11Dobbs unnumberedBob Griffis U.S. Mail Carrier one mile in front of Nome on Bering SeaAlbum 11Dobbs unnumberedScotty Allen and his famous huskies on Bering SeaAlbum 11Dobbs unnumberedCouncil City showing Neukluk RiverAlbum 11Dobbs unnumberedGeneral offices John J. Sesnon.Album 11Dobbs 31Kings Island natives, Dickson, AlaskaAlbum 11Dobbs 121Loading passengers for S.S. St. Paul Sesnon Lightering Co., Nome.Album 11Dobbs 505St. Michael, AlaskaAlbum 11Dobbs 787On board Capt. Amundsen ? sloop Gjoa, Nome Roadstead.Album 11Dobbs 836Bering Sea after storm at NomeAlbum 11Goetze unnumberedFirst wharf at Nome1905Album 11Goetze unnumberedMain street, Nomeapproximately 1901Album 11Goetze A503[The Sourdough]Album 11Goetze A627In the far north 1 mile out on Bering Sea1901Album 11Huey unnumberedMoonlight on Bering Sea1906Album 11Huey unnumberedNome, Alaska in the good old summertime.Album 11Lomen unnumberedNome River ValleyAlbum 11Lomen 796Ice hummocks on Bering SeaAlbum 11Lomen 811Blackchief Bluff near Bluff CityAlbum 11Lomen 884Landing at Nome.Album 11Lomen 972King Island Village, AlaskaAlbum 11Lomen 1169Mid-day sun Dec. 21st, Nome.Album 11Nowell 24Sesmon Lightering Freight at NomeAlbum 11Nowell 5439-CLanding passengers from S.S. Umatilla. July 7th 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 5492John J. Sesnon's Lightering Co.'s cable way for landing freight at Nome. 19071907Album 11Nowell 5510East Cape, Siberia1907Album 11Nowell 5547Passengers lightering aboard S.S. Victoria for Seattle and the outside, Nome. Aug 3rd 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 582?Election Day, Nome1902Album 11Nowell 5860John J. Sesnon Co. coal pile, Nome. Oct. 17 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 5890John J. Sesnon Co.'s cable way unloading grain. 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 5905Dwelling house belonging to the oil plant of the John J. Sesnon Co., Nome.Album 11Nowell 5921Last lighter leaving Nome for S.S. Dineric. Oct. 28th 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 5922Landing reindeer aboard lighter from John J. Sesnon's Cableway for S.S. Duneric, Nome. Oct. 28th 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 5923Loading reindeer on lighter from John J. Sesnon Co.'s cableway for S.S. Duneric, Nome. Oct. 28th 1907.1907Album 11Nowell 5924Reindeer of John J. Sesnon Co.'s docks, Nome. Oct. 28th 1907.1907Album 12Alaska1906-1940235 photographs, 16 postcards

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

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

Album 12Wilse 246Dutch Harbor, Alaska looking East.Album 12Wilse 247Unalaska, Alaska looking SoutheastAlbum 13Alaska1899-194238 photographs, 76 postcards

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

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

Album 1338 photographs, 76 postcards1899-1942Album 14 Iñupiat people65 photographs

Photographers noted: Lomen Bros. Dobbs, Nowell

Album 14Nowell unnumberedIñupiat Salmon Dance, Nook, Alaska.Album 14Nowell unnumberedIñupiat women and "Mickanninnys Nook", Teller.Album 14Nowell unnumberedIñupiat women showing their manner of carrying their young, Cape Prince of Wales.Album 14Nowell unnumbered"Nawadluk" (Nowadluk Nora Ootenna)Album 14Nowell unnumberedIñupiat skin boat or "Omiak", Grantley Harbor.Album 14Nowell unnumbered"Mickaninies Kow-Kow"Album 14Nowell 29The most Northerly Public School House in the United States, Cape Prince of Wales.Album 14Nowell 38Iñupiat girls with reindeer at TellerAlbum 14Nowell 1185Possibly Yupik Village, Graphita Bay, Siberia.Album 15Siberia and Alaska61 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.

Photographers noted: C.W. Scarborough, Billett.

Album 1561 photographsAlbum 16[Untitlted Album]approximately 1887-1940s131 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.

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

Album 16Barley, H.C. 719Koodenah's canoe ornament1900Album 16Case and Draper 140-NThlinket Packing Co.Album 16Cantwell 129"One little Injun"Album 16Hunt, P.S. G3Totem poles, Sitka.Album 16Hunt, P.S. G753Natives camped apposite Copper Center, Alaska.Album 16Hunt, P.S. G3087[Native womanAlbum 16Hunt, P.S. G3094[Native man]Album 16Partridge 807Interior of Indian House, Sitka1887Album 16Partridge 810Chief Shakes house, Fort Wrangle [Wrangell]Album 16Partridge 811Chief Shakes house, Fort Wrangle. [Wrangell]. 18871887Album 16Partridge 812Totem poles, Ft. Wrangle [Wrangell]. 18871887Album 16Partridge 813Naha Bay1887Album 16Partridge 814Chilkat1897Album 16Thwaites 1708Totem and "Sunhouse", WrangellAlbum 16Thwaites 2108Totem, Wrangell, AlaskaAlbum 16Thwaites 6012Kyan totem, KetchikanAlbum 16Winter and Pond 218Nulato Indian and sleigh dogsAlbum 16Winter and Pond 243Native Alaskan Auk women, Juneau, Alaska1896Album 16Winter and Pond 251Old Tlingit women, Alaska.Album 16Winter and Pond 283Totem poles, Chief Shake's house, Fort Wrangell [Wrangell]Album 16Winter and Pond 489Old woman, possibly Iñupiat, Alaska.Album 17Thwaites222 photographsAlbum 17222 photographsAlbum 18Albumapproximately 1885-1950s108 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.

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

Album 18108 photographs, 20 postcardsapproximately 1885-1950sAlbum 19Ships and tugs14 photographs

Photographers noted: Thwaites.

Album 1914 photographsAlbum 20Ships (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 2016 photographsAlbum 21Capt. Amundsen and party. Corwin relief expedition.approximately 1906-1920s36 photographs, 1 gravure

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

Photographers noted: Nowell, Wolfe.

Album 21Wolfe 3Below Discovery Sulphur Creek. [Exterior of cabin]1906Album 21Wolfe 2Below Discovery Sulphur Creek. [Interior of cabin].1906Loose PhotographsLoose photographs

black and white mounted photograph of ship "San Juan," undatedblack and white mounted photograph of Hotel Royal, Monte Cristo, undatedblack 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?