Nora E. Kreps photograph album [graphic], ca. 1908-1910.

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Nora E. Kreps photograph album [graphic], ca. 1908-1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57229372

The album reflects Nora Kreps' life at Fort Davis in Nome during her high school years. Classmates and school activities, including the "Arctic Sisterhood Basketball Team" are shown. She also took photos around Fort Davis and on her various trips in Alaska, including a trip through the Inside Passage. Many individuals from the Nome community are identified. The album is intact. Handwritten captions accompany most of the photographs. Photographers represented in her album include: Lomen Brothers, Goetze, Simmer, Dobbs and Nowell. Places include: Bering Sea, Cape Prince of Wales, Copper River, Dutch Harbor, Fort Davis, Fort Egbert, Fort Gibbon, Fort Liscum, Fort Seward, Holy Cross Mission, Nome, Point Barrow, Point Hope, Port Clarence, St. Michael's, Solomon, St. Lawrence Bay (Siberia), Unalaska, Valdez, and Yukon River.

1 album (202 photographs) : b&w ; 31 x 24 cm.

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Kreps, Nora E.

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Nora Elizabeth Kreps lived at Fort Davis in Nome during her high school years. In 1908 she traveled through the Inside Passage, Prince William Sound and into the Bering Sea. From 1909-1910 she collected and photographed images of Nome, Fort Davis and vicinity. From the description of Nora E. Kreps photograph album [graphic], ca. 1908-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 57229372 ...

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...

Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950

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Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was a photographer who worked in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. He was the official photographer of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the description of Frank H. Nowell photographs of the Northwest and Alaska, circa 1880s-1920s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 179780507 Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was born on 19 February in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father, Thomas Nowell, spent part of each year in Alaska for b...

Lomen family

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