The Thomas Cader Powell Photograph Collection consists of three photograph albums filled with studio prints by the Lomen Brothers and Beverly B. Dobbs as well as personal pictures. The collection includes photographs from the Seward Peninsula and nearby regions, but most of the pictures are of and around Nome, Alaska. The albums contain images of ships, animals, group pictures, mining activities, street scenes and landscape views. Notable photographs included are of the boat Nokatak with polar bear carcasses hanging, All-Alaska Sweeptstakes dog teams, Native Alaskans hunting walrus, reindeer herds in Teller, Alaska, men from U.S.R.C. Bear in the 1910 4th of July parade in Nome, Alaska. In addition, this collection contains scenes of the interior of a cabin that looks like a meetinghouse and a roadhouse bar, as well as the exterior of the Masonic Temple in Nome. Group photographs abound in these albums, including but not limited to photographs of the Nome High School women's basketball team; the 1910 Bar Association of Nome; the Pioneers of Alaska in 1907; cast photo on stage at Mikado A.B. Hall in Nome in 1906; and the Masqueraders at the Eagle Hall in Nome in 1907. Portraits of Helen Van Campen and Captain Barter are also in this collection. Mining photographs are also contained in these photograph albums, such as the Miocene Ditch Company's Operations on Glacier Creek, Alaska, in 1910, hydraulic mining on Kings Island, and pictures of gold dredges such as Flodin No. 1 gold dredge operating on Solomon River.