Clyda Schott Greely photograph collection, ca. 1887-1926. [graphic].

Hunt, P. S. (Phinney S.), 1866-1917

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P.S. Hunt was born in Michigan April 24, 1866. He married Rose Frazer of Ashtabula, Ohio, March 29, 1888, and they moved to California. In 1898, Hunt left California, his wife, and two sons and moved to Valdez, Alaska. He became the official photographer of the Alaska Engineering Commission in 1915. Hunt was Deputy Grand Master of the I.O.O.F. in Alaska, and a member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 7. He died suddenly in Seward Oct. 14, 1917. From the description of P.S. Hunt ph...

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 ...

Greely, Clyda Schott.

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Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schott and daughter Clyda lived many years in Alaska. Louis went to Wrangell in 1887 to operate R.D. Hume's Cannery with Bob Bell. When the Alaska Packer's Association organized in 1890 or 1891, Louis Schott went to work for them as superintendent at Karluk, Alaska until 1908 and then to Alitak on Kodiak Island. In 1911 he returned to Wrangell as superintendent of the Point Highfield Cannery. He worked for APA until his death in Wrangell in 1926. The photographs were collected...

Cantwell, George E.

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Schott, Louis.

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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 ...

Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)

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B. B. Dobbs (1868-1937) was active as a photographer and also was a pioneer in the emerging motion picture business in both Alaska and Washington State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is believed to be one of the first individuals to have used motion picture film north of the Arctic Circle. Born Beverly Bennett Dobbs near Marshall, Missouri, he first learned photography in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington, whe...

Richardson, Phil.

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Clemons, Basil

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Basil Edwin Clemons (1887-1964) was born in Lauderdale County, Alabama, and raised in Alabama and Texas. In 1903 he moved to California, eventually becoming a photographer in Hollywood. In 1909 he traveled to Alaska, where he spent nearly a decade photographing gold mining camps, Alaska Natives, and dogsled races, particularly in the Ruby and Iditarod regions. During World War I he joined the Army and trained at Fort Liscum, near Valdez, Alaska. Following his discharge in 1918, he moved to Seatt...

Cheney, F. D.

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Lomen Bros.

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The Lomen family was well known in Alaska for an entreprenurial spirit. Their interests varied from reindeer herding to law practice. The five Lomen brothers, Carl Joys, Alfred Julian, Harry, George, and Ralph helped create a reindeer industry, outfitted the Norwegian explorer Amundsen and participated in the birth of bush aviation in Alaska. Judge G.J. Lomen of St. Paul, Minnesota, moved to Nome after vacationing with a son, Carl, in the early 1900's. In 1903, they were joined by his wife, Juli...

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

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Worden, John E. (John Elmer), 1861-1925

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John Elmer Worden (1861-1925) came to Alaska from New York via Oregon and was a resident of Wrangell from 1898-1925. He married Nina Silve Turner in Portland in 1895 and they had 3 children. Worden served as Wrangell's postmaster from 1900 until 1917 when his health began to fail. He was Wrangell Town Clerk from 1905-1925. Additionally, he was a professional photographer and active in community affairs. He was a member of the Pioneers of Alaska, the Improved Order of Redmen, the Benevolent and P...

Alaska Packers Association

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An association of Alaska salmon canneries chartered in 1892 from 11 independent canneries, canneries, with headquarters in San Francisco. In the 1960's central offices moved to the Blaine, Wash. area and the association was sold to Del Monte Corp. along with their parent company, California Packing Corp. The Alaska Packers Associations was still operational, as of 1982, as a subsidiary of Del Monte Corp. The APA operated an extensive fleet of ships, maintained files on v...