Selid-Bassoc photograph collection, 1897-ca. 1920.

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Selid-Bassoc photograph collection, 1897-ca. 1920.

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The Selid-Bassoc Photograph Collection consists of approximately 900 images of the gold rush era. Photographers include Goetzman, Faulkner, Guy F. Cameron, Vogee, P.S. Hunt, and Cantwell. The bulk of the collection depicts people, residences, scenery, and events in the towns of Dawson, Yukon Territory; Valdez and Rampart, Alaska; and several unidentified Native villages. Sternwheelers are featured in many of the photographs. Other subjects include parades, mining, freighting, races, and curling. Most of the people in the photographs are unidentified. Photographs of public buildings include the Northern Commercial Company, Canadian Bank of Commerce, post offices, schools, and churches. There are also a number of images of Alaskan wildlife.

16 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8179756

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Hunt, P. S. (Phinney S.), 1866-1917

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P.S. Hunt was born in Michigan April 24, 1866. He married Rose Frazer of Ashtabula, Ohio, March 29, 1888, and they moved to California. In 1898, Hunt left California, his wife, and two sons and moved to Valdez, Alaska. He became the official photographer of the Alaska Engineering Commission in 1915. Hunt was Deputy Grand Master of the I.O.O.F. in Alaska, and a member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 7. He died suddenly in Seward Oct. 14, 1917. From the description of P.S. Hunt ph...