Amalga, Alaska and Aleutian Photo Collection

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Amalga, Alaska and Aleutian Photo Collection

circa 1890-circa 1920

https://archivescatalog.library.uaf.edu/public/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AABC&record=8bf48d17-a9cd-4ba4-a702-5fe2cae4f98a

The collection contains photographs of various points in Alaska, especially in the Aleutian Islands but also Valdez, the Bering Sea and the Mackenzie River. Activities depicted include commercial whaling, commercial fur seal harvesting, reindeer being loaded onto ships, walrus hunting, and mining. There are images of children, women, men identified as “Russians” [including a priest], men in uniforms [possibly in the Revenue Cutter Service], whalers and ships' crews. There are boats, ships, landforms, Aleut barabaras [dwellings], villages, and the Jesse Lee Home. Some of the photographs apparently depict sulphur mining in the Makushin region at the turn of the 20th century. There is also a photograph album of Amalga, Alaska and mining activities associated with the Eagle River Mine. Amalga was the site of a settlement about 4 miles northeast of the mouth of the Eagle River and about 22 miles northwest of Juneau. The place was settled about 1902 and the post office discontinued and the settlement abandoned about 1927. The mine was in operation for those same years. There is minimal identification.

4 document boxes; 1, cubic feet

eng, Latn

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7318606

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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