Tourist view by P. s. Hunt and others, ca. 1905-ca. 1920.

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Tourist view by P. s. Hunt and others, ca. 1905-ca. 1920.

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The Tourist Views by P. S. Hunt and Others collection consists of 21 photographs of Alaskan scenes and Alaska Natives produced by P. S. Hunt, Merl LaVoy, Guy F. Cameron, John E. Thwaites, and other photographers. Subjects include mining scenes, Columbia Glacier, Kennicott Glacier, the Fairbanks-Valdez Trail, and Palmer, Kennicott, and Copper Center, Alaska.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7318580

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Cameron, Guy N.

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LaVoy, Merl

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Merl LaVoy, one of the first internationally famous news photographers, was born in 1886. He was a Wisconsin native, but after his parents died when he was still a young boy, LaVoy moved to Oregon to live with his uncle. In 1907, LaVoy worked for the Great Northern Development Company, which was prospecting for copper on the Kotsina River in Alaska. In 1910, LaVoy agreed to join Herschel Parker and Belmore Browne as an expedition photographer for their 1912 hike of Mt. McKinley (the highest peak...

Hunt, P. S. (Phinney S.), 1866-1917

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P.S. Hunt was born in Michigan April 24, 1866. He married Rose Frazer of Ashtabula, Ohio, March 29, 1888, and they moved to California. In 1898, Hunt left California, his wife, and two sons and moved to Valdez, Alaska. He became the official photographer of the Alaska Engineering Commission in 1915. Hunt was Deputy Grand Master of the I.O.O.F. in Alaska, and a member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 7. He died suddenly in Seward Oct. 14, 1917. From the description of P.S. Hunt ph...

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 ...