Frank Hiatt photographs, ca. 1897-1949.

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Frank Hiatt photographs, ca. 1897-1949.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/315919635

The Frank Hiatt Photographs consist of 184 photographs and real-photo postcards with images of early Fairbanks, Alaska, and of Hiatt, his family and friends, and their activities. The bulk of the photographs date between circa 1910 and circa 1930. Subjects include a baseball game, a parade, a rodeo, and various contests in Fairbanks; the Fairbanks riverfront and flooding; houses and gardens (most of them probably in Fairbanks); early automobiles; and the sternwheeler Yukon. Also in the collection are a few images of Rampart and Skagway, Alaska. While most of the people in the photographs are unidentified, there are two photos that include Bobby Sheldon.

0.50 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7320552

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Hiatt, Frank.

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Frank (William Frank) Hiatt (1869-1949), spelled Hyatt in some records, was a native of Sweden who came to the United States in 1886. In the summer of 1898 he left Watsonville, California, where he was a farmer, to join the gold rush to Alaska and the Yukon. By 1900 he was mining in the Little Minook Junior Mining District near Rampart, Alaska, and continued to mine in the Rampart area to at least 1903. From 1907 to at least 1912 he worked as a watchman for the Northern Commercial Company in Fai...