June and Farrar Burn photographs from Alaska

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June and Farrar Burn photographs from Alaska

1920-1921

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.131

This collection includes negatives from June and Farrar Burn's time in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska between 1920 and 1921. The Burns were granted teaching appointments from the Bureau of Education in the Alaska School Service and assigned to Gambell where they lived for a year, working closely with the Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) community there.

12 Glass plate negatives; 13 Copy negatives

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658101

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

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Burn, June, 1893-1969

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June and Farrar Burn met in Washington, D.C., were married in 1919, and moved to the Puget Sound area where they lived in Bellingham, Washington, on Waldron Island, and in Seattle. The couple was known for their unconventional and simple lifestyle. June was a writer and a teacher, working a short time at the University of Washington. Farrar was a song writer and musician, and in 1928 he and his family traveled across the country to promote and sell his music. Farrar buil...

Burn, Farrar, 1888-1974

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