Captain George H. Whitney photograph collection, 1886-1910.
Title:
Captain George H. Whitney photograph collection, 1886-1910.
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Physical Description:
album ; 155 photoprints : black and white ; 19 x 27 cm.
album ; 97 postcards : black and white, color ; 25 x 37 cm.
General Note:
In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
Subjects include the many ports and coastal communitites visited by Captain Whitney from Ketchikan to Golovnin Bay, and the Aleutian Islands. Other subjects include the Tanana River, hunting and fishing, canneries, ships (Georgia, Odiak, Manning, Ragnhild, Capella, Onward, Anna Barron, Tyoonic, Themis, Delta, Louise, Wilbur Crimmins, Tokiyo), Russian Orthodox churches, Valdez flood, and totem poles.
Photographers include W.H. Case, Case & Draper, Winter & Pond, P.E. Kern, Worden, J.E. Thwaites, as well as Whitney.
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Biographical/Historical Data:
Captain George H. Whitney was born in New Brunswick, Canada on Oct. 22, 1858 and went to sea at a young age. He arrived in Alaska in 1898 when he was transferred from San Francisco to the Sitka office of the Steamboat Inspection Service. In 1912 the office moved to Juneau and Whitney was placed in charge as Local Inspector of Hulls, a post from which he retired in 1928. During his 16 years in Juneau he was active with the Scottish Rite Masons and as director of First National Bank. He also had interests in Ketchikan Power & Light Co., a pulp and paper plant on the Speel River, and chrome mining in southcentral Alaska. He died in California on Jan. 5, 1936.
Restrictions on Access:
Collection is open for research.