William Ansley was the proprietor of Landahl's Emporium in Iditarod, Alaska (next to the Iditarod Post Office), selling tobacco products, books, stationery, cameras, and music. Landahl's also had a circulating library. For several years beginning in 1914, Mrs. Harvey Adams, then a young girl, corresponded with Ansley as a pen pal. The photographs in this collection were among the letters he sent to her. The photographs depict life in Iditarod around that time. Included are images of William Ansley, Sr. and Jr., the mayor's wife, the Beattie Hotel, Iditarod street scenes, races.
