Aaron S. and William A. Simson Photograph Collection, ca. 1892-1905

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Aaron S. and William A. Simson Photograph Collection, ca. 1892-1905

ca. 1892-1905

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The collection includes Southeast Alaska, the Sitka mission school and students. Locations are, primarily, Juneau and Sitka, views by Moosbauer, Reuben Albertstone, F. Jay Haynes and Y. Eaton of Native Photo. The photographs were taken primarily between 1890-1905.

25 Photographic Prints : 1 box

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SNAC Resource ID: 7764136

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Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)

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Simson, Aaron T.

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Aaron Taylor Simson was born in Rayne Township, Pennsylvania in 1848. His date of arrival in Alaska is unknown however, he and his first wife, Maggie, worked at the Indian Training School at Sitka until 1894. Shortly afterward, Maggie died and Simson returned to Pennsylvania. He remarried Alma Hamill and had two children, including the donor's father, William Albert Simson (deceased 1989). Aaron Simson collected artifacts and photographs while in Alaska; he died in Pennsylvania on May 31, 1920. ...

Albertstone, Reuben.

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Sheldon Jackson Museum

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Moosbauer, Louis.

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Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921

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F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), a photographer who traveled extensively in the West, was best known for his early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. In the 1870s and 1880s, Haynes operated studios in Moorhead, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, and St. Paul, Minnesota. As the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, he maintained the "Haynes Palace Studio," a special railroad car equipped as a mobile photography studio. In 1891, when tourist travel to Alaska was on the rise, Hayne...