PCA 425-25: Judith Person Alaska Postcard Collection, ca. 1909 Alaska State Library
Alaska State Library
Historical Collections
Person, Judith
Judith Person Alaska Postcard Collection, ca. 1909
PCA 425-25
1 Folder Processed by: Ken Nail, Jr., LAM
38 b&w and colorized photographic postcards Revised by: Alea Oien, 3/2009
Anastasia Tarmann, 2011
ACQUISITION: The collection was donated by Judith Person to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections and is accessioned as 1991-018.
ACCESS: The collection is unrestricted.
COPYRIGHT: Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.
PROCESSING: This collection has been described at the item level. All items have been placed in Mylar and into a pH-neutral folder.
HISTORICAL NOTE
From the donor’s (Judith Person) correspondence: The postcards in this collection belonged to the donor’s great grandmother. They had originally been sent by her uncle Edward Rowley while he was in the army in Alaska around the turn of the century.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE
Mostly b&w photographs of Fort Liscum, and Valdez, Alaska, printed on postcard stock. Also some colorized postcards of Alaska life and peoples, including one of the old Log Cabin Church, Juneau, Alaska. They are from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer.
SUBJECTS
Fort Liscum, Valdez, Army, Juneau, Alaska native people, postcards, log cabin church, Log Cabin Soda works, City Brewery, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition.
INVENTORY
Folder 1 of 1
1. [Large building – military barracks - Fort Liscum]
2. [Path shoveled through deep snow]
3. [Buildings covered in deep snow and weather is snowing very hard]
4. [View from hillside looking down on buildings – Fort Liscum]
5. [Boat approaching dock]
6. [Looking across bay]
7. [View of river valley between mountains]
8. [Fort Liscum stables, horses and other buildings]
9. Valdez, Alaska
10. [Tideland view of area surrounding Fort Liscum]
11. Scene on Mt Baker
12. [Soldiers on beach looking at a marine mammal – Fort Liscum]
13. [View from hillside looking down on buildings at Fort Liscum]
14. Scene near Ft. Liscum, Alaska
15. [Beach scene – man with small boat]
16. [Road cut through deep snow]
17. [Men loading or unloading boat]
18. [Horse pulling sled through deep snow – houses nearly buried]
19. [Coastal beach scene]
20. [Waterfall through steep gorge]
21. [Fort Liscum buildings nearly buried in snow]
22. [Looking across bay]
23. [12 dog - sled team in tandem]
24. Alaska ptarmigan [winter plumage near snowbank]
25. Barracks Ft. Liscum
26. Ft. Liscum, Alaska
27. Scene on Pr. Wm. Sound, Alaska
28. Eskimo Friends, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
29. Eskimo Salmon Dance, Nook, Alaska. [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
30. Eskimo Cooking Walrus Meat, Alaska. [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
31. Eskimo Children of Alaska [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
32. John Spoon, A Native Desperado of Alaska. [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
33. Playmates, Nome, Alaska [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
34. Eskimo Maid of Keewalik, Alaska [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
35. Mazinka Houses, Graphite Bay, Siberia
36. Siberian Eskimos and Mazinka House, Whalen, Siberia [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
37. Old Log Cabin Church, Juneau, Alaska. [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909, F.H. Nowell, photographer]
38. An Eskimo Belle, Showing Hair, Longest of any girl in Alaska.
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