Bragaw-Everett family photographs, 1900s- 1930s.

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Bragaw, Robert. Bragaw-Everett family photographs, 1900s- 1930s.

Bragaw-Everett family photographs, 1900s- 1930s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606649040

The Bragaw-Everett collection includes photographs, photograph albums, real-photo postcards, and negatives taken throughout Alaska, including Anchorage, Tyonek, Eklutna, Copper Center, Ester Creek, Fairbanks, Palmer, Chitina and Nome. This collection includes pictures taken in the early 1920s of children and adults from the Tyonek orphanage and Eklutna School for Natives, including pictures of coal gathering on the beach for the Tyonek orphanage, a trolley that transported people to and from Anchorage from Eklutna, Athapascan cemeteries and subsistence activities such as sheep and whale hunting. There are also photographs of the interiors of the boiler room for the Alaska Railroad and power plants in Anchorage, the 1933 and 1935 Fairbanks Ice Carnival dignitaries and 1933 Fairbanks Ice Carnival parade float, an electric thawing machine from the Alaska Engineering Commission Railway (A.E.C.R.Y.) and a photograph of President Warren Harding during his 1923 visit to Fairbanks. The photograph albums include photographs by Robert Bragaw that document family life in Anchorage, views of bridges and scenic photographs along the route of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway (C.R.N.W.R.Y.), a picture of a locomotive in Katalla, Alaska, and a bird's eye view of Kennecott. There are also photographs documenting possibly the Davidson Ditch construction, a group portrait in Moonlight Creek, Alaska, including George W. Wickersham, U.S. Attorney General, Charles Nagle, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and Walter E. Clark, Governor of Alaska. The photograph albums also contain pictures from the July 4, 1915, Tanana Chiefs Conference in Fairbanks.

1.75 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library