F.B. Bourn photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1899.

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F.B. Bourn photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1899.

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The turn-of-the century photographs were taken in Sitka, Skagway, Fort Wrangell and some non-Alaskan images. Many of the photographs were taken by Major John Tweedale. Frank and Dolly Bourn and Myra Tweedale are pictured. Includes Frank La Roche photographs of the Inside Passage, U.S. Army Major John Tweedale's photographs of Skagway and Alaska-Canada boundary, and photographer, F.W. Carlyon.

229 photographs : b&w.

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Bourn, F. B. (Frank B.)

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Frank B. Bourn served as a clerk in the office of the Secretary of War. In 1899 he accompanied Major John Tweedale, U.S. Army, from Seattle to Skagway and Sitka, Alaska to obtain information for the Secretary of War from ten Chilkat Indian Chiefs and Subchiefs around Klukwan, Alaska. George Kostrometinoff served as interpreter for these testimonies which provided information on the tribes contacts with Russians before the purchase and facts relative to the Alaska/Canadian boundary settlement.[So...

La Roche, Frank

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Frank LaRoche was born in Philadelphia on June 20, 1853. He began his photographic career in Pennsylvania, traveling from Florida to Iowa. In 1889, he opened LaRoche Studios in Seattle, Washington. He married Ida M. Crary in Seattle and had a son, Frank Jr., who also became a photographer and opened another studio in Bremerton, Washington. From 1890-1902, the father and son frequently traveled to Alaska photographing Southeast Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush. The book, "Enroute to the Klondike...