Albert J. Johnson photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1908-1918.

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Albert J. Johnson photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1908-1918.

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The views in this collection include Fairbanks street scenes, mining activity, agricultural produce, the U.S. Agricultural Experimentation Station, Athapascan Indian portraits and culture, and the Catholic church and hospital in Fairbanks.

51 photographs : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7753201

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Johnson, Albert J.

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Albert J. Johnson was born in Denmark in 1880 and immigrated to the United States after he was orphaned. He arrived in Fairbanks in 1905 and worked as a photographer there until 1914. In 1910, he married Jennie Landers and their daughter, Alice, was born in 1912. In 1914, the family moved to California to farm. From 1916-1918, however, Johnson worked in Alaska as an official government photographer for the Alaska Engineering Commission. These photographs depict the creation of Nenana as a townsi...