John W. Ryerson photographs, 1938- 1950s.

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John W. Ryerson photographs, 1938- 1950s.

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The John W. Ryerson Photographs consist of 80 black-and-white images of Southeast, Southwest, and Interior Alaska. They include scenes of Southeast Alaska taken during a voyage north aboard the S.S. Yukon in 1938; Goodnews Bay; wooden gold dredge construction on the Goodnews River; Fairbanks and the University of Alaska campus there; Livengood; the Johnston-Blondo gold mining operation on Harrison Creek; and Fairbanks Exploration Company gold mining operations at Chatanika, Ester, and Cripple Creek.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Ryerson, John W.

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After two years at the University of California Berkeley, John W. Ryerson (1917-1996) came to Alaska with a friend in the summer of 1938. They were employed in construction of a wooden gold dredge on a tributary of the Goodnews River. That fall, they took a short course in mining at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and remained enrolled through the spring semester. Ryerson spent July and August of 1939 working at a placer mine on Harrison Creek near the Yukon River, and from September to No...