John E. Thwaites Alaska photographs, writings and other material circa 1900-1934

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John E. Thwaites Alaska photographs, writings and other material circa 1900-1934

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Photographs of Alaska taken or collected by amateur photographer John E. Thwaites, writings on Alaska by Thwaites, and letters and drawings to Thwaites from Native Alaskan schoolchildren

1 box, including 511 photographs; .42 cubic feet

eng,

Museum of History & Industry Sophie Frye Bass Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6377152

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Geist, Otto William

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Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940

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John Edward Thwaites was born in Eastwood, Ontario, Canada, in 1863. The family moved to Michigan around 1871. In 1885, Thwaites married Carrie Warne, and the two worked as schoolteachers in Michigan until Thwaites's ill health led the couple to relocate to Florida. Unable to establish a viable career as a teacher, Thwaites applied at the Florida Southern Railroad for a position as a federal Railway Mail Service clerk in 1895. In 1901 he was transferred to Spokane to work for the Rocky Mountain ...