Perry Moore photograph collection, 1900-1903 [graphic].

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Perry Moore photograph collection, 1900-1903 [graphic].

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Photographs of the Nome area, 1900-1903, Eskimos and Alaskan scenics. Some of the photographs were taken by Perry Moore. Others are commercially prepared; some by O.D. Goetze. NOTE: Included are several photographs of a visit by U.S. Senators. These are possibly Senator W.P. Dillingham, of Vermont, Senator H.E. Burnham, of New Hampshire, Senator Knut Nelson of Minnesota and Senator E.M. Patterson of Colorado. Also included in that party were Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; Col. Ramsdell; Lt. Andrews, of the U.S. Army; Dr. Willcox, U. SA; Mr. John McLane [McLain], Ed. Minneapolis Journal & Mr. Brill, of the Associated Press. (see diary of Judge James Wickersham, July 22, 1903).

74 b&w photographs.

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Moore, Perry (Perry D.)

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Perry Moore was born in Mears, Oceana County, Michigan, January 31, 1866. His first wife Mate Farmer and their daughter Sibyl died in the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago in 1903. Moore traveled to the Nome area in about 1900 where he lived with his second wife Lovey Jane Moore until at least 1909, when they were enumerated in the census of that year. Family tradition holds that Moore "froze his lungs in Alaska," a possible reference to tuberculosis. The 1920 census shows Perry and Lovey both as...

Goetze, O. D. (Otto Daniel)

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Otto D. Goetze was born in Missouri in 1871 to a German immigrant family of twelve children. Goetze left Missouri as a young man, moving to Walla Walla, Wash., then to Oregon, and later to Seattle. Goetze went to Alaska around 1898 as the Gold Rush began and established a photography studio in Nome. Though he returned to the mainland at least once during this time--to photograph the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904--Goetze remained in Alaska photographing Gold Rush activity and Alaska natives unti...