Eugene E. Ailes collection, 1900-1902.

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Eugene E. Ailes collection, 1900-1902.

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The collection consists of 5 photo albums containing 226 black-and-white photographs (8 x 6 cm.-19 x 24 cm.). Photograph locations include Nome and the Seward Peninsula, and also those taken during Ailes' trip north to Alaska in 1900. Subjects of the photographs include: street views in Nome (including Steadman Avenue, Front Street, The Alaska Banking and Safe Deposit Company, The Bank of Cape Nome), steamships at Nome, steamship "Nome City" at sea and while icebound near St. Lawrence Island, whaling ships, Laplanders and reindeer at Port Clarence and elsewhere in Alaska, Eskimos, fish drying racks, mining operations at Ophir and at Anvil Creek at Nome, Summit Bench at Dexter Creek, Snake River, Yukon River, cliff dwellings at King Island, the Diomede Islands, Council City, Greek Orthodox Church and trading post at Sitka, Native cemetery at Alert Bay (B.C.), and Schwabacher's Wharf in Seattle. Professional photographers include: E.A. Hegg, B.B. Dobbs, and A.B. Kinne.

.4 linear ft.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8153029

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

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Alaska Banking & Safe Deposit Co. (Nome, Alaska)

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St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)

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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...

Ailes, Eugene E.

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Bank of Cape Nome (Nome, Alaska)

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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...

Nome City (Steamer)

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Kinne, A. B. (Albert Barnes)

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Albert Barnes Kinne operated photography studios in San Francisco and the Alaskan towns of Nome and Council. In the early 1900s, he created photographs documenting the gold rush in Alaska's Seward Peninsula. From the description of Albert B. Kinne photographs, ca. 1903-1910 [graphic]. ca. 1903-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 55061715 Prior to living in Alaska, Albert Kinne was actively engaged in public affairs in San Francisco California. He arrived in Nome around 1900...