Basil Clemons photograph collection, 1911-1912. [graphic].

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Basil Clemons photograph collection, 1911-1912. [graphic].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50047110

Includes scenes and residents of Flat, Ruby, and Iditarod, Alaska.

155 photoprints : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7617841

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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...