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[Tlingit portrait photographs].
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Title:

[Tlingit portrait photographs]

Creator/Contributor:

Case & Draper, creator, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Merrill, Eldridge Warren, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Winter & Pond, photographer.

Abstract:

Professional studio portraits of Tlingit and perhaps other Alaska Natives. 1: [Two men posing in traditional hats and blankets]. 2: Tlingit natives in potlatch dancing costumes. 3: Thlinget [sic]-Clutchman. [Portrait of a woman]. 4: Thlinket [sic] Packing Co., Aug. 3 1907. Interior canning dept. 5: Alaska Taku chief, An Thla Haash, 1915. 6: [Unidentified man in traditional feathered headband and Western coat].

Date:

1906 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ak
Tlingit Indians -- Photographs
Alaska Natives -- Portraits
Tlingit -- Photographies
Autochtones de l'Alaska -- Portraits
Alaska Natives
Tlingit Indians

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer's name written in negative of 3 images: "Case & Draper." Other photographer's name appearing in negative of one print: "Merrill" (i.e. Eldridge Warren Merrill, who specialized in documenting the Tlingit). Photographer's name embossed in one print: "Winter & Pond Co. Juneau, Alaska".
Images by Case & Draper (:2-:4) are captioned in negative. Image by Winter & Pond (:5) includes hand-written caption on back. Others lack identifiecation.
Purchase ; From Ten Pound Island Book Co. ; 2020.
Tlingit portrait photographs, BANC PIC 2020.090, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Portraits.
Portraits-Alaska.

Physical Description:

photoprint
6 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 20 x 24 cm or smaller

Language:

English

Origin:

California