Lorain Roberts Zacharias photograph collection, 1903-1921. [graphic].

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Lorain Roberts Zacharias photograph collection, 1903-1921. [graphic].

Images include Lorain W. Roberts hunting, wading the Johnson River, at her cabins, Chisana Glacier, Shushanna City, the Shushanna Cafe, Shushanna jail, gold dredging, the Brimston Hotel (Y.T.), "stampeders" in camp and on the trail, scenics. Other photographers represented in the collection include Winter & Pond, Case & Draper, Wolfe, L.H. Smith, and J. Doody. Collection also includes her mining claim location notice, illustrations by Will Zacharias, and memorabilia.

2 albums (304 photoprints) : b&w + manuscripts.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7617719

Alaska State Library

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Smith, L. H. (Leonard Hart), 1910-

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Zacharias, Lorain Roberts.

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Lorain W. Roberts lived in Alaska from about 1913 to 1921 in the area of Chisana (also known as Shushana, Shushanna, or Qhisina) and Tolvana. These photographs were collected during that time. Between 1914 and 1916 she married William (Will) M. Zacharias. She and Will were musicians; she played the guitar while her husband played the violin for miners' dances. Lorain and her husband travelled miles in an oversized canoe loaded with their belongings and dogs. Lorain and the dogs walked and hunted...

Zacharias, William M.

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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 ...

Case & Draper

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Doody, Jerry (Jeremiah)

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