Album : Alaska cruise aboard the U.S.S. Thetis, 1887, and other Alaska scenes through 1920, 1887-1920 (bulk 1887).

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Album : Alaska cruise aboard the U.S.S. Thetis, 1887, and other Alaska scenes through 1920, 1887-1920 (bulk 1887).

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Includes 41 photographs; 21 photographs from an Alaskan cruise aboard the U.S.S. Thetis, summer, 1887. Twenty additional Alaska scenes (mainly coastal) from Valdez to Point Barrow are included, photographed by John E. Thwaites. The album also contains a poem titled "Other Woman in Alaska" by Ulu M. Thompson.

1 album (41 photoprints) : b&w ; 16 x 23 cm.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7596034

Alaska State Library

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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 ...

Shattuck, Agnes Swineford, 1879-1973.

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Mrs. Allen Shattuck (Agnes Swineford) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 23, 1879 [to Mrs. Wilhelmina ("Minnie") Smith]. She came to Alaska in 1886 with her family when her [step]father, Alfred P. Swineford was appointed first resident Governor of Alaska. She lived in Sitka and Ketchikan until 1901, when she married Allen Shattuck of Juneau. She lived in Juneau until her husband's death in 1960 and died in San Rafael, California, on March 15, 1973. [From: Juneau Empire, 3/26/1973]. ...

Swineford, Wilhelmina "Minnie" Smith, d. 1927.

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