Florence Tobin Thornton family papers, 1899-1986.

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Florence Tobin Thornton family papers, 1899-1986.

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The Florence Tobin Thornton Family Papers consist of several letters (1899-1900), a diary (1903-04), and other writings of August L. Tobin, who prospected for gold on the upper reaches of Alaska's Koyukuk River from 1898 to 1918; correspondence, assay reports, location notices, and financial records of Laurance C. Thornton's Solo Mining Company of Ketchikan, Alaska, which worked gold claims near Hyder, Alaska, in the 1930s and early 1940s; and correspondence and writings of Florence Tobin Thornton, including reminiscences of her years as a civilian employee of the U.S. Lighthouse Service based in Ketchikan (1921-1951). Though most of August Tobin's writings are in Swedish, the collection includes Florence's translations of two of the letters. Also found in the collection are a small number of photographs of Laurance and Florence Thornton, activities of the Solo Mining Company, and scenes of Hyder, Alaska, and vicinity, as well as two photographs of the family of Albert Ness, the subject of one of Florence's articles.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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