PCA 272: Voyage by ship to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau and Treadwell, 1895Alaska State Library

Alaska State Library

Historical Collections

Voyage by ship to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka,

Treadwell and Juneau, 1895

PCA 272

10 photographs, card mounted, b&wRevised 7/12/2005

ACQUISITION: The library obtained the collection in 1984.

ACCESS: The collection is available for viewing; however, the photographs may not be photocopied.

COPYRIGHT: Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian.

PROCESSING: The 4 x 4 in. card mounted photographs are individually sleeved in Mylar and housed in an acid-neutral folder.

Scope and Content Note

These card-mounted images record a trip taken in July and August of 1895 up the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska communities including Ft. Wrangel, Ketchikan, Juneau and Sitka. The photographer is unknown and the name of the ship is unrecorded. Chief Annahootz's house in Sitka and Chief Kadashan’s house at Ft. Wrangel are depicted. There is one photograph of the waterfront and Native village at Juneau, now known as Willoughby Ave. The information below was transcribed from the verso of each photograph; supplied information appears in brackets.

Inventory

1The First Totem (we saw) at Ketchikan, Friday, July 26 '95 [1895; totem, center, between two houses; women, right, foreground]. Fading print.

2Chief's House at Ft. Wrangel, Sat. July 27 1895 [exterior view of Chief Kadashan's house; Crane Totem, left; Red Snapper Totem, right].

3On deck. [two men on deck of ship].

4Sunday, July 28 '95. Coming down from Treadwell Mine. Mr. Mahon at right and behind Tomlison [?]. The “youngest girl” looking over his shoulder. Fading print.

5Sunday morning at Juneau, July 28. Taken from walk above Rancheria [houses and boats on beach; later became Willoughby Avenue].

6Characteristic scenery. From Basin Road -- Juneau. Sunday, July 28 '95 [small house, center; hills and trees, left and right].

7Greek Church & Main St. Sitka. Taken Tues. July 30 1895. [St. Michael's Cathedral, center; buildings left and right; men on boardwalk, right].

8Taken Tuesday [July] 30 1895 [Alaska Native women seated on boardwalk in front of Sitka Trading Co. with buckets of [berries?]

9Chief's House at Sitka. Tues. July 30 1895 [exterior view of Chief Annahootz's house with sign: “Annahootz, Head Chief of the Sitka Tribe”].

10Leaving Pt. Departure, Sunday, Aug. 4 '95 [group of men on deck of ship]. Fading print.

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