Album : Alaska cruise aboard the U.S.S. Thetis, 1887, and other Alaska scenes through 1920, 1887-1920
Title:
Album : Alaska cruise aboard the U.S.S. Thetis, 1887, and other Alaska scenes through 1920, 1887-1920
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 album (41 photoprints) : black and white ; 16 x 23 cm
General Note:
Papers form a separate collection, MS 150.
Title supplied by cataloger.
In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
Includes 41 photographs; 21 photographs from an Alaskan cruise aboard the U.S.S. Thetis, summer, 1887. Twenty additional Alaska scenes (mainly coastal) from Valdez to Point Barrow are included, photographed by John E. Thwaites. The album also contains a poem titled "Other Woman in Alaska" by Ulu M. Thompson.
Ownership:
Created by Wilhelmina "Minnie" Swineford (nee Smith), mother of Agnes Shattuck.
Biographical/Historical Data:
Mrs. Allen Shattuck (Agnes Swineford) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 23, 1879 [to Mrs. Wilhelmina ("Minnie") Smith]. She came to Alaska in 1886 with her family when her [step]father, Alfred P. Swineford was appointed first resident Governor of Alaska. She lived in Sitka and Ketchikan until 1901, when she married Allen Shattuck of Juneau. She lived in Juneau until her husband's death in 1960 and died in San Rafael, California, on March 15, 1973. [From: Juneau Empire, 3/26/1973].
Restrictions on Access:
Collection is open to research.
Contents:
Group of natives, Yakutat -- Camp Hard-A-Ground -- Esquimaux settlement, Cape Prince of Wales -- Nushagak, 1887 -- Most northerly habitation on continent, Point Barrow -- Killing seal on St. Paul's Island -- beach mining -- Oomiak converted into tent -- Aleut barrabara -- Natives of Cook's Inlet -- Captain and crew of Arctic Whaler, rescued by U.S.S. Thetis -- A double-hatch bidarka -- Aurora Borealis -- Native women in canoe -- Russian church, Unalaska [interior view] -- S.S. Perry, R.C.S., Unalaska -- Ships: Nitto Maru; Kiowa, Tokiyo [Tokyo]; S.S. Manning R.C.S. -- U.S.S. Tahoma R.C.S. -- Shishaldon [Shishaldin] Volcano, Alaska -- Star of Alaska -- S.S. McCulloch U.S.R.C.S.