Patrick Eugene Kennedy collection [graphic], ca. 1917-1921.

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Patrick Eugene Kennedy collection [graphic], ca. 1917-1921.

The collection is comprised of four photograph albums (two partial) and one scrapbook, plus a one-page handwritten document and one advertisement printed on pulp, mostly related to the Speel River Project and/or the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company. Localities depicted include Long Lake, Long Creek, Crater Lake, Crater Creek, Speel River, Second River, Tease Creek. Album 3 includes images of Treadwell and the building of a flume and pipeline at Nugget Creek.

ca. 286 images (3 albums) : b&w + scrapbook (papers and clippings)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7755668

Alaska State Library

Related Entities

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Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company

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Nugget Creek Hydroelectric Project (Alaska)

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Kennedy, Eugene Patrick, 1875-1961,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h15ppz (person)

Patrick Eugene Kennedy, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, came to Alaska to work as a mining engineer and eventually settled in Juneau, as assistant superintendent at the Treadwell Mine. In 1912, he married Teresa Keenan of San Francisco and they had two sons. In 1915, Kennedy and his partners formed a corporation under the laws of California named the "Speel River Project" to establish a power plant based on the "Norwegian plan" for electro-chemical factories (Alaska Daily...