Southeast Alaska photographs, 1895-1897.

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Southeast Alaska photographs, 1895-1897.

The collection consists of twenty-one black and white photographs of southeast Alaska subjects on mount boards. Seventeen are Winter & Pond photographs (Juneau and Douglas City, Alaska), two are Alaska Photo Co. photographs (Douglas, Alaska), and two are of unknown origin. Places depicted include Chilkat, Douglas Island, Fort Wrangell, Howkan, Juneau, Muir Glacier, Sitka, Skagway, and Taku Inlet. Subjects represented include the St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Church in Sitka, pulp mills, glaciers, native peoples, and Indian carvings, totems, and graves.

.4 cu. ft.21 photographs : b&w, mounted on cardboard ; 12 x 19 cm.-24 x 20 cm.

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Winter & Pond

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Lloyd Valentine Winter (1866-1945) and Edwin Percy Pond (1872-1943), of the firm Winter & Pond Co., were prominent Alaskan photographers. In 1893, Winter came to Juneau from San Francisco and entered a partnership with George M. Landerkin, known as Landerkin and Winter. In 1894, his long time friend E.P. Pond bought out Landerkin. Winter and Pond served as official Alaska photographers for the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. During the gold rush, Winter was appointed the ...