PC 15 James Stephen Photographs Alaska and Mexico 1898-1908 James Stephen Photographs Alaska and Mexico Processed by David Smestad in March, 1978. Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
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PC 15 James Stephen Photographs Alaska and Mexico 1898-1908 1 container 0.25 linear feet Approximate 38 items The collection includes 21 glass negatives of Alaska showing churches, priests, Eskimos, and scenery and 17 original prints taken on a trip to Mexico in 1908, showing various churches with a few prints of the ruins at Mitla and of people. Biographical Note:

James Stephen was born in Woodstock, Ontario in 1858. He was a cabinet maker, carpenter, photographer, and architect. He was architect for the Administration Building at Washington State University in 1893, Stevens Hall in 1895, and also many Seattle public schools. In 1898, the year of the Klondike Gold Rush, he left architecture and, according to his son, worked for about one year with the Moran Brothers Shipbuilders as a carpenter. While with Moran Brothers he helped to build a stern wheeler for the Yukon River; then dismantle it and ship it to Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island, and reassemble it, after which it steamed to St. Michael, the deep water port for the Yukon trade. He took a trip to Mexico in 1908. He died in Seattle in 1938.

I. 4x5 glass negatives of Alaska showing churches, priests, Eskimos, and scenery. Recent prints have been made of a few and a container list compiled. (21 items)

II. Original prints taken on a trip to Mexico in 1908, showing various churches with a few prints of the ruins at Mitla and of people. (17 items)

The James Stephen glass negatives and prints were donated to the Washington State University Library in 1973 by his son, J. Howard Stephen.

 Alaska û Photographs. Mexico û Photographs. Mitla, Mexico (Oaxaca). Alaska Native Americans Photographs I Glass Negatives 1 St. Michaels Church 2 St. Michaels Church -- interior 3 Unalaska 4 Unalaska Church 5 Unalaska Church -- interior 6 Head Land Unalaska 7 Dutch Harbor 8 Dutch Harbor land side 9 Presbyterian Mission Girls 10 Mission Boys 11 Esquimoux Boys 12 Doctors Family 13 ? Family 14 Peter and Family in Style 15 Peter in Furs 16 Father Jakob Corshinsky 17 Father Orloff 18 Crater Crest 19 Cemetery 20 Midnight 21 Dogs II Prints Mexico Trip circa 1908