Captain George H. Whitney photograph collection, 1886-1910. [graphic].

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Captain George H. Whitney photograph collection, 1886-1910. [graphic].

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Subjects include the many ports and coastal communitites visited by Captain Whitney from Ketchikan to Golovnin Bay, and the Aleutian Islands. Other subjects include the Tanana River, hunting and fishing, canneries, ships (Georgia, Odiak, Manning, Ragnhild, Capella, Onward, Anna Barron, Tyoonic, Themis, Delta, Louise, Wilbur Crimmins, Tokiyo), Russian Orthodox churches, Valdez flood, and totem poles. Photographers include W.H. Case, Case & Draper, Winter & Pond, P.E. Kern, Worden, J.E. Thwaites, as well as Whitney.

album ; 155 photoprints : b&w ; 19 x 27 cm.album ; 97 postcards : b&w, col. ; 25 x 37 cm.

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Whitney, George H., 1858-1936.

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Captain George H. Whitney was born in New Brunswick, Canada on Oct. 22, 1858 and went to sea at a young age. He arrived in Alaska in 1898 when he was transferred from San Francisco to the Sitka office of the Steamboat Inspection Service. In 1912 the office moved to Juneau and Whitney was placed in charge as Local Inspector of Hulls, a post from which he retired in 1928. During his 16 years in Juneau he was active with the Scottish Rite Masons and as director of First National Bank. He also had i...

Case, W. H. (William Howard), 1868-1920

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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 ...

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 ...

Kern, P. E.

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Case & Draper

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