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[Samuel W. Fansher collection of Alaska gold rush photographs].
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Title:

[Samuel W. Fansher collection of Alaska gold rush photographs]

Creator/Contributor:

Fansher, Samuel W., creator, creator.

Abstract:

Scenes from a gold seeking expedition to the Kotzebue Sound region of Alaska on the schooner Penelope. Several subjects, including sailors, Eskimos, ice camping and fishing, totem poles. General locations depicted include Kotzebue Sound, Bering Sea and Kobuk River.

Date:

1898 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ak
Gold mines and mining -- Alaska
Sailors -- Alaska -- Photographs
Eskimos -- Alaska -- Photographs
Marins -- Alaska -- Photographies
Inuits -- Alaska -- Photographies
Eskimos
Gold mines and mining
Sailors
Travel
Alaska -- Description and travel
Kotzebue Sound (Alaska) -- Photographs
Bering Sea -- Photographs
Kobuk River (Alaska) -- Photographs
Alaska -- Descriptions et voyages
Kotzebue, Baie de (Alaska) -- Photographies
Béring, Mer de -- Photographies
Kobuk (Alaska : Fleuve) -- Photographies
Alaska
Alaska -- Kobuk River
Arctic Ocean -- Kotzebue Sound
Pacific Ocean -- Bering Sea
Peneolope (Schooner) -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Samual Fansher.
Photographer(s) uncertain.
Includes 1 cyanotype (:32).
Includes copy of Gold Hunting in Alaska as told by Joseph Grinnell (folder 2) published in 1901, an account of the expedition documented in the photographs, and in which many present images were published.
Purchase ; From Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books ; 2015.
Item list available in library.
Samuel W. Fansher was born in Iowa approximately 1865; member of the 1898-1899 expedition aboard schooner Penelope to Kotzebue Sound during Alaska gold rush; long time resident of Pasadena; captain of Pasadena Fire Department; died August 16, 1939.
Samuel W. Fansher collection of Alaska gold rush photographs, BANC PIC 2015.079, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Cyanotypes.

Physical Description:

photoprint
32 photographs : chiefly collodion printing out prints ; sheets 11 x 13 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Related Item:

Gold hunting in Alaska : Grinnell, Joseph, : 1877-1939