Merl LaVoy photographs from Alaska

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Merl LaVoy photographs from Alaska

1920

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.163

This collection includes 27 prints and 26 copy negatives taken by Merl LaVoy among the Inupiaq in Alaska during the 1920s.

27 Photographic prints; 26 Copy negatives

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658079

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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LaVoy, Merl

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Merl LaVoy, one of the first internationally famous news photographers, was born in 1886. He was a Wisconsin native, but after his parents died when he was still a young boy, LaVoy moved to Oregon to live with his uncle. In 1907, LaVoy worked for the Great Northern Development Company, which was prospecting for copper on the Kotsina River in Alaska. In 1910, LaVoy agreed to join Herschel Parker and Belmore Browne as an expedition photographer for their 1912 hike of Mt. McKinley (the highest peak...