Thomas J. DeVane photograph collection, 1912-1920.

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Thomas J. DeVane photograph collection, 1912-1920.

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The Thomas J. DeVane Photograph Collection consists of 69 black-and-white photographs of buildings, people, and activities at Poorman, Long, Ruby, Anchorage, and Fairbanks, Alaska, and vicinities in the years 1912-1918. Many of the photographs are by Basil Clemons, and include both indoor and outdoor scenes. The collection also includes an exchange of letters in 1919/20 between DeVane, who was U.S. commissioner at Ruby, Alaska, and the office of the mayor of San Francisco, California, regarding information needed to settle a bet.

0.25 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6919256

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Clemons, Basil

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Basil Edwin Clemons (1887-1964) was born in Lauderdale County, Alabama, and raised in Alabama and Texas. In 1903 he moved to California, eventually becoming a photographer in Hollywood. In 1909 he traveled to Alaska, where he spent nearly a decade photographing gold mining camps, Alaska Natives, and dogsled races, particularly in the Ruby and Iditarod regions. During World War I he joined the Army and trained at Fort Liscum, near Valdez, Alaska. Following his discharge in 1918, he moved to Seatt...

DeVane, Thomas J.

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