Perry Moore photograph collection, 1900-1903.
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Perry Moore photograph collection, 1900-1903.
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Physical Description:
74 black and white photographs
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In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
Photographs of the Nome area, 1900-1903, Eskimos and Alaskan scenics. Some of the photographs were taken by Perry Moore. Others are commercially prepared; some by O.D. Goetze. NOTE: Included are several photographs of a visit by U.S. Senators. These are possibly Senator W.P. Dillingham, of Vermont, Senator H.E. Burnham, of New Hampshire, Senator Knut Nelson of Minnesota and Senator E.M. Patterson of Colorado. Also included in that party were Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; Col. Ramsdell; Lt. Andrews, of the U.S. Army; Dr. Willcox, U. SA; Mr. John McLane [McLain], Ed. Minneapolis Journal & Mr. Brill, of the Associated Press. (see diary of Judge James Wickersham, July 22, 1903).
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Biographical/Historical Data:
Perry Moore was born in Mears, Oceana County, Michigan, January 31, 1866. His first wife Mate Farmer and their daughter Sibyl died in the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago in 1903. Moore traveled to the Nome area in about 1900 where he lived with his second wife Lovey Jane Moore until at least 1909, when they were enumerated in the census of that year. Family tradition holds that Moore "froze his lungs in Alaska," a possible reference to tuberculosis. The 1920 census shows Perry and Lovey both as patients in a sanatorium in Arizona. Perry died in the summer of 1921.
Restrictions on Access:
Unrestricted.