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The Alaska collection.
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Title:
The Alaska collectionCreator/Contributor:
Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950Creator/Contributor:
Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948Creator/Contributor:
Larss & Duclos PhotosCreator/Contributor:
Case & DraperDate:
approximately 1898-1908 (issued)Subject:
n-us-akMines and mineral resources -- Alaska -- Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- Photographs
Eskimos -- Alaska -- Photographs
Gold mines and mining -- Alaska -- Photographs
Mining districts -- Alaska -- Photographs
Mining districts -- Photographs
Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Photographs
Inuits -- Alaska -- Photographies
Régions minières -- Photographies
Peuples autochtones -- Alaska -- Photographies
Eskimos
Gold mines and mining
Indians of North America
Mines and mineral resources
Mining districts
Alaska -- Pictorial works
Yukon -- Pictorial works
Alaska -- Ouvrages illustrés
Alaska
Yukon
Note:
Includes photographs by Eric A. Hegg, Case and Draper, Larss & Duclos, Frank Nowell and others.
Collection of photographic prints consists of both vintage prints and modern copy prints made from the negative collection.
Includes views of reindeer, eskimoes, mines and miners, dog sleds, schools and missions, towns & buildings, ships, and other
views illustrative of gold-rush era Alaska. Also includes some Yukon Territory views.
Negatives: Stored off-campus; not for public use.
Preliminary finding aid available; individual items also indexed in pictorial card file.
In the course of research on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYP) of 1909, Nicolette Bromberg (Visual Materials Curator,
University of Washington Libraries) concluded that this collection, or much of it, was likely put together by Frank Nowell
in 1908, when he went on an extensive trip through the Yukon and Alaska to photograph images to use for the AYP. In addition
to his own views, he also copied the work of other photographers. He appears to have numbered his negatives backwards from
the route of the trip. The negatives reproducing the work of other photographers were used for printing for the AYP, so the
original photographer's name may appear in the negative, but a print might be stamped "Photo print by F.H. Nowell."
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
13 boxes (approximately 5000 photographic prints) : b&w.
approximately 5000 negatives : glass.
Language:
English
Origin:
AlaskaCopyright Note:
Negatives: Stored off-campus; not for public use.