Percy Wetherbee photographs, circa 1895-1909.

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Percy Wetherbee photographs, circa 1895-1909.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761058894

The collection consists of 33 black and white photograph with measurements ranging from 4 3/4 x 7 inches to 7 x 10 inches mounted on card stock, depicting Alaskan towns and mining operations in Alaska and the Yukon. Photographers include: J.M. Blankenberg, Winter & Pond Co., Lorenzo E. Robertson, Case & Draper, Larss & Duclos, H.E. Hammond, Beverly B. Dobbs, George G. Cantwell. Subjects of the photographs include: Jessie Minto, Raymond-Whitcomb Inc., Ebner Gold Mining Co., Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company, City of Topeka (ship), Hotel Mondamin (Skagway, Alaska), Nome City Rod and Gun Club (Nome, Alaska), gold mines and mining, totem poles, a funeral in Nome, and Tlingit Indians. Locations of the photographs include: Nome (Alaska), Valdez (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), Saint Paul Island (Alaska), Sitka (Alaska), Muir Glacier (Alaska), Skagway (Alaska), Dawson (Yukon), Eldorado Creek (Yukon), Dyea (Alaska), Haines (Alaska), and Porcupine River (Alaska).

.2 linear feet.33 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm.-20 x 25 cm.

Anchorage Museum Atwood Resource Center, ANCHORAGE MUSEUM OF HIST & ART LI

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SNAC Resource ID: 8149347

Anchorage Museum Atwood Resource Center, ANCHORAGE MUSEUM OF HIST & ART LI

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Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company

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City of Topeka (Steamship)

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Hotel Mondamin (Skagway, Alaska)

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Minto, Jessie.

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Case & Draper

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Ebner Gold Mining Co.

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Robertson, Lorenzo E.,

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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 ...

Blankenberg, John M.

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John Martin Blankenberg was born in Tragdor, Norway, October 24, 1860. He came to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush and worked as a photographer in Dawson, Haines, and possibly other locations. Little is known of his personal life. He was married at one time and spent the latter part of his life in Tenakee, Alaska, which is where he died August 19, 1939. He is best known for his photos of Haines, the Tlingit Indians, and activities on the Chilkoot Pass, Lake Bennett and Lake Lindeman. ...

Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)

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B. B. Dobbs (1868-1937) was active as a photographer and also was a pioneer in the emerging motion picture business in both Alaska and Washington State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is believed to be one of the first individuals to have used motion picture film north of the Arctic Circle. Born Beverly Bennett Dobbs near Marshall, Missouri, he first learned photography in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington, whe...

Wetherbee, Percy Jasper.

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Percy Jasper Wetherbee was born to Guy Victor and Buena Minto Wetherbee in Grants Pass, Oregon on Aug. 4, 1921. Buena's half-brother, Frank Minto, participated in the 1898 Alaska gold rush. Frank Minto married Mabel Burke while in Alaska. From the description of Percy Wetherbee photographs, circa 1895-1909. (Anchorage Museum Atwood Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 761058894 ...

Hammond, H. E. D

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Cantwell, George Gordon, 1871-1948.

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Larss & Duclos.

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Raymond-Whitcomb, Inc.

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