Shelby B. Combest collection, ca. 1900-1920 [graphic].

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Shelby B. Combest collection, ca. 1900-1920 [graphic].

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This collection consists of 301 b&w photoprints depicting the Treadwell Mine, Douglas, Juneau, and other sites in Southeast Alaska, including the Speel River, Snettisham, and the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. Views of Southcentral Alaska include the 1911 Valdez flood, the Wrangell Mountains, and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway. The collection includes some photographs by Alaskan photographer Elbridge Merrill, L.H. Pedersen and others.

301 photoprints : b&w ; 21 x 35 cm. or smaller.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7489433

Alaska State Library

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Alaska Historical Library

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Merrill, Elbridge Warren, 1870-1929.

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Combest, Virginia Susan.

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Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company

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White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)

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The White Pass & Yukon Route built the White Pass Railway, a 110-mile, narrow-gauge railroad running from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada; construction began in 1898 and was completed in 1900. From the description of Payroll records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171545 From the description of Payroll records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80056574 The White Pass & Yukon Route built the White Pass Railway, a 110-mile, ...

Pedersen, Louis H.

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The Reverend Pedersen was an early missionary in Alaska. He first served the Methodist Episcopal Church in Douglas, Alaska, from 1905 until 1906 when he was appointed to establish a church in Seward. He conducted services in Seward in a 20 x 30 foot tent and lived in the back until the church was built. From Seward he went to Skagway. His name is associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Skagway in the 1911-1912 Polk's Alaska Yukon Gazetteer and with the First Presbyterian Church of Skag...

Combest, Shelby B., 1880-1925.

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Treadwell mining engineer in charge of cyanide plant; superintendent of cyanide plant at Chichagof and acting superintendent of Chichagof mine. From the description of Papers of Shelby B. Combest relating to mining, 1916-1918. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42929242 ...