John Holmes photographs and letters, 1906-1916.

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John Holmes photographs and letters, 1906-1916.

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The collection contains 28 photographs, some of which are attributed to Lomen (Lomen Bros.), and 26 letters. The letters from John Holmes were saved by his mother, Alice Maude Lathrop Holmes, and by his sister, Nellie McCreery. The letters were then passed on to Nellie's son, William. William McCreery's wife, Anita Derby McCreery, gathered the letters and pictures into a portfolio to share with family members, sending the originals to the Alaska State Archives.

28 b&w prints, 26 original letters

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SNAC Resource ID: 7655302

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Holmes, John (Jack), 1880-1917.

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John "Jack" Holmes was born in May 1880, probably in either Seattle or Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from Stanford University in 1901, with an A. B. in metallurgy. Letters written the year he graduated from Stanford suggest that he had a job waiting for him in Alaska. There were no letters for five years, until he moved to Candle; however, references in the letters from Candle suggest that he had been working as an assayer, possibly at the Miners and Merchants Bank in Nome. In 1906, John Holm...

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...

Miners and Merchants Bank (Iditarod, Alaska)

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