Edward L. Keithahn photograph collection [graphic], 1923-1950's.

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Edward L. Keithahn photograph collection [graphic], 1923-1950's.

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The first 1,086 images were taken by Edward Keithahn while living and teaching in Shishmaref, Kake, Hydaburg, Wrangell and Juneau, from 1923-1941. They include Tlingit and Haida traditional activites, canoes, artifacts, petroglyphs and totem poles, Alaska Natives traditional activities, fishing, steamers, canneries, the Wrangell Institute, and photos of Edward Keithahn and the Alaska Territorial Museum. Approximately 200 photographs were taken in Shishmaref in 1923, as part of the National Park Service's "Shared Beringen Heritage Program" in 1993-1994. Susie Fair, researcher for the project, interviewed Shishmaref residents who provided documentation. A little more than a dozen of the photographs were reproduced in the NPS publication, "Ublasaun=First Light: Inupiaq Hunters And Herders In The Early Twentieth Century, Northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska" (E99.E7 U24 1996). Includes original photographs for Keithahn's book, "Monuments in Cedar."

1,230 photographs : b&w.

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Keithahn, Edward L. (Edward Linnaeus), 1900-1970

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Edward Linnaeus Keithahn was born in Tenino, Washington on May 15, 1900. He served in World War I and attended the University of Washington. In 1923, he married Marie Antoinette (Toni) LaChance. That same year, the couple moved to Shishmaref and taught at the BIA school. While in Shishmaref, Keithahn studied local paleontology and Eskimo language. The Keithahns left Alaska to continue their studies at the University of Washington, in 1925 then in 1928, went to Kake, Alaska, and taught until thei...