Union dues receipt and Alaska trip souvenirs, 1904.

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Union dues receipt and Alaska trip souvenirs, 1904.

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The collection consists of a receipt from the Federal Labor Union of Nome for dues paid, and published souvenir items from Leon Frank Barnard's trip to Alaska in 1904. The souvenir items include a souvenir book of Alaska photographs by E.A. Hegg of Seattle, Washington (n.d.), two copies of a Western Alaska Construction Company photo-illustrated booklet on the building of the Council City & Solomon River Railroad (ca. 1904), a Pacific Coast Steamship Company schedule of sailings for Nome and Skagway with maps of the gold fields of Nome and Tanana River areas in Alaska and the Whitehorse Mining District in Canada (1904), and a Northwest Commercial Company precinct map of the arctic gold fields of the Seward Peninsula (1904).

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UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7765951

UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948

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Eric A. Hegg was born in Bollnas, Sweden, in 1868 and came to America with his parents when he was three years old, settling in Wisconsin. Hegg studied art and photography (possibly as an apprentice to a local photographer). At fifteen, he opened his own studio in Washburn, Wisconsin. At the age of twenty-one, Hegg moved to the Puget Sound area, and by 1897, he owned two photo studios in Bellingham Bay, Washington. In that year, he left for the gold fields with a group of men from Bellingham Bay...

Barnard, Leon F., 1877-1917

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Leon Frank Barnard was a member of the unsuccessful Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition to the North Pole from Tromse, Norway in 1901 to 1902. He visited Alaska in 1904. From the description of Union dues receipt and Alaska trip souvenirs, 1904. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 58525057 Farmer and explorer. From the description of Leon F. Barnard papers, 1901-circa 1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983505 ...

Pacific Coast Steamship Company

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Biographical / Historical Notes The Pacific Coast Steamship Company (PCSC) was founded in September 1882 under the name Pacific Steamship Company. This passenger and freight company was based in San Francisco. They shipped a variety of cargo such as vegetables, grain, lumber, coal and iron, and boasted modern, luxurious facilities for their passengers. In the early 1890s, the name Pacific Coast Steamship Company gained permanent resonance, un...