Talmage family photograph collection, 1890-1940. [graphic].

Carlyon, Fred W., 1865-1956

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Fred W. Carlyon was born June 6, 1865, in Union Grove, Wisconsin. After settling in Olympia, Washington, in 1883, Carlyon moved to Wrangell, Alaska, where he operated a jewlery/watchmaking shop from 1898 to 1906. He practiced photography as a hobby and probably to earn extra money. He was primarily active in the Stikine River District, B.C, and Wrangell, Alaska. After living on a ranch near Yelm, Washington, following his return from Alaska, he settled permanently in Olympia in 1923. He died on ...

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 ...

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

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Ordway, Frederick Ira III.

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Frederick K. ("Alaska's Flying Photographer") and his wife, Laura P. Ordway settled in Juneau around 1926. Fred worked as an electrician for Alaska Light and Power Co. for less than a year before opening Ordway's Photo Service (or Photo Shop) on Front Street. Laura was a photographer and writer employed by Alaska Line Steamship Co. and free-lance writer/photographer for Popular Science, Alaskan Travel and other magazines and advertising companies. The Ordways traveled throughout Alaska in the 19...

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 ...

Cheney, F. O.

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Talmage family.

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Kenyon Cleveland Talmage, "Captain Ken," was born July 23, 1888, in Tacoma, Washington. He moved to Wrangell in 1906 and went to sea in 1908 as a seaman aboard the S.S. Alaska. Until 1921 he served on various vessels including the S.S. Alaska, the S.S. Dart, the M.S. Vermont, the M.S. Marguerite and the Uncle Dan, a riverboat carrying mail, freight and passengers up and down the Stikine River. He married Leona Theresa Lindman of Wrangell on Dec. 20, 1916 and they made their home in Wrangell and ...

Cheney & Johnston.

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Elite Studio.

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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...