Verna Hurley Carrigan photograph collection, 1880-1945. [graphic].

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Verna Hurley Carrigan photograph collection, 1880-1945. [graphic].

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Collection images include: Juneau businesses, individuals and groups, ships, Tlingit Indians, the first official airmail plane (Juneau to Fairbanks, 1938), Juneau-Douglas Telephone Co., a Kellogg CD board, early Juneau telephone switchboard operators, switchboard at the Alaskan Hotel, strike at the AJ Mine (ca. 1930), family photos of the Webster, Hurley, Carrigan, Scott families, southeast Alaska views, letters to Edward Webster (1881-1885), stamps and postmarks, ca. 1932-1977. Photographers include Winter & Pond, Landerkin and Winter, and E.A. Hegg, and others.

5 folders (54 manuscript items)

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7616021

Alaska State Library

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Juneau and Douglas Telephone Co.

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Winter & Pond

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Lloyd Valentine Winter (1866-1945) and Edwin Percy Pond (1872-1943), of the firm Winter & Pond Co., were prominent Alaskan photographers. In 1893, Winter came to Juneau from San Francisco and entered a partnership with George M. Landerkin, known as Landerkin and Winter. In 1894, his long time friend E.P. Pond bought out Landerkin. Winter and Pond served as official Alaska photographers for the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. During the gold rush, Winter was appointed the ...

Webster, Ed., 1858-1918.

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Winter, Bud

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Webster, Anna, 1867-1957.

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Carrigan, Verna Hurley.

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Mrs. Verna Hurley Carrigan was the daughter of Minnie and Robert Hurley and granddaughter of Ed and Anna Webster. Ed Webster, Carrigan's maternal grandfather, started the first commercial telephone system in Alaska in 1893 with Frank X. Bach, in Douglas. By 1898, Bach left for the Klondike. Webster purchased Bach's interest in the company and moved the operation to Juneau. In 1910 it was re-named the Juneau-Douglas Telephone Company. In 1915 Webster built a switchboard station on what is known t...

Landerkin, George M.

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Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948

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Eric A. Hegg was born in Bollnas, Sweden, in 1868 and came to America with his parents when he was three years old, settling in Wisconsin. Hegg studied art and photography (possibly as an apprentice to a local photographer). At fifteen, he opened his own studio in Washburn, Wisconsin. At the age of twenty-one, Hegg moved to the Puget Sound area, and by 1897, he owned two photo studios in Bellingham Bay, Washington. In that year, he left for the gold fields with a group of men from Bellingham Bay...